STEM Experiment for Kids: Build a Balloon Powered Boat Here’s another fun summer STEM project that gets kids excited to go outside. But first, start inside with that big pile…
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Robot Workshop Box
Learn all about robots! Your pint-sized robotic engineers will design and create their own Artbot to make artistic swirls, make a Magnetbot and “teach” it to go through a maze, construct a Glidebot and watch it fly, and create habitats for their own Hexbug Nano pet!
This Junior Box celebrates thinking, questioning, and original creation with fun and creative projects that will have everyone tinkering and playing long afterwards.
Robot Workshop is our October Junior Subscription Box.
Ask a Scientist
This month in our Ask a Scientist chat we talked coding and robots with an educational technology expert, Dr. Sharon Jones. We had a fun discussion and learning about robotics, coding, and technology!
Educational Videos
Explore More About Robots
If you’ve got a little one with an insatiable curiosity, these Kid-Friendly videos might be just what they need!
STEAM DIY Ideas
Activities for At-Home Learning
Want to take your kids’ learning further? You’re in luck!
At Green Kid Crafts we were blogging before blogging was a thing. We’ve got DIY activities for days to keep your kids entertained.
Below you’ll find ideas related to the theme of this box.
Ask A Scientist As part of our Ask A Scientist program, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Sharon Jones about robotics recently! As a STEM Educational Consultant, and mom...
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Bristlebot Science Project for Kids Make your own bristlebot! This is a very easy-to-make micro robot that you can make using the head of a toothbrush for a body and the bristles…
More At-Home Learning Resources
We’ve collected and curated even more ways for kids to learn about Robots!
Podcasts, books, organizations and initiatives, and more.
Worth a Listen
Brains On! Robots take over (the show)!
What was the first robot? What is artificial intelligence? How do robots “learn?” In this special episode, the Brains On! Science Podcast for Kids presents a Robotstravaganza!
Meet some awesome robots (including one that’s very cuddly), debate whether robots are good or bad for humanity, and find out what robots can learn from nature. Have a listen here.
Brains On! The World of Tiny Robots
In this episode it’s all about teeny, tiny robots! They may be small, but these robots can still take in information and make decisions on their own. Find out how bees and cockroaches teach us about the future of small robots and what big tasks they might take on. Listen here.
These resources provide engaging robot-related rhymes and songs adapted to commonly known tunes that children can recite and move to. Check them out here.
Good Reads
Robots, Robots Everywhere! by Sue Fliess
Robots are everywhere in this bright and funny board book – and preschoolers are going to love it! Whether up in space, beneath the seas, or even under couches, the bold and colorful bots make this book a must have.
The Robot Book by Heather Brown
This richly illustrated, sweetly written book answers the question: “What makes a robot tick?” Here’s a hint: It’s not what you think.
A sturdy, toddler-friendly board book that will charm both little ones and their parents. It’s the perfect way for kids to learn that it’s what’s on the inside that really counts.
R is for Robot by Adam F. Watkins
In this noisy alphabet book, silly robots are building the alphabet. Featuring hilarious, noisy robots that make the alphabet a hilarious adventure! This book is perfect for young readers.
Environmental & Educational Causes
Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE)
RSE’s mission is to supply robotic technology to solving large-scale environmental challenges and to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers through our efforts. They offer a unique set of capabilities to solve some of the world’s most challenging environmental problems on a massive scale.
The non-profit’s first initiative is to develop an undersea robot to slow the destruction caused by lionfish, an invasive species drastically reducing biodiversity and coral reef health in all warm waters of the western Atlantic.
At the Robotics Academy their mission is to stimulate kids’ imaginations and creativity by encouraging them to explore, experience, and express themselves through hands-on interactive robotics and engineering concepts program.
Students work with LEGOs, including the more specialized pieces such as axles, gears, beams, wheels, motors, microcomputers, pneumatics and other parts that enable them to safely create animated and exciting mechanical movements and other effects!