UPDATE 3/14/2025: Solitaire Chess is now a magnetic traveling game, but the online Flash version no longer exists. Tic Tac Chec (honestly one of my favorite ways to introduce chess to young people) is sadly no longer being produced. You can still find used versions of the game, though. For more chess resources, you can … Read more
Who says that Robotics can’t be tasty? If you believe that, then the L’Essor Secondary School Robotics Team, Team 6331 SaBOTage, would disagree with you. The team has produced a downloadable STEM book of recipes titled, appropriately, How to SaBOTage Your Kitchen. The students researched and published this guide to preparing delicious dishes. It includes … Read more
Chris Woods (@DailyStem) tweets STEM challenges each day. Even if you are not a Twitter advocate you can go to his website and download his weekly STEM newsletters for free. There is an archive of at least 30 newsletters on this page. Each one-pager has a puzzle, a mystery photo, and other short STEM articles … Read more
According to its vision statement, “Beauty and the Bolt, centered on the idea that Brilliant is Beautiful, aims to make learning engineering easy, inexpensive, and accessible for anyone.” With that goal in mind, Beauty and the Bolt has: a blog post that lists women who teach STEM on YouTube, a map to find makerspaces around … Read more
So I’m not saying that I decided to follow Barb Seaton (@barb_seaton) because she has a bulldog in her profile picture – but it is definitely evidence that we are kindred spirits. Since I know there are many librarians who follow this blog, I wanted to share Barb’s recent tweet about a Makey Makey Book … Read more
In yesterday’s post about a website that archives short video animations for kids I mentioned that I would be writing about another source for videos to use in the classroom. The site is called, “Class Hook,” and I have mentioned it before in a post about using video clips. That post gave information about some … Read more