Boston STEM Lab

Dear friends!

Boston STEM Lab will be closed for the summer.

I am taking a moment to put all my energy into a new role I have started in a great research group in a fantastic institute here in Boston. There, I take part of the outreach subgroup developing educational materials for high school students and contributing to an amazing project. I’ll share more in the future!

I am excited and I may have to reorganize my plans for the next steps in my career and my plans for Boston STEM Lab.

I’ll keep you posted but for now you can still have access to some of my lessons through our online curriculum. Find a link in bio or head to BostonSTEMlab.com

Thank you all so much for your support the past three years. I am so happy I embarked in this adventure and got to do so much with you, meet so many fabulous creative people and kids and grow as a person, science communicator and educator. I love you all!

¡Gracias!

Eugenia/Dr. Rojas

So grateful to my students and their caregivers!

Today we had our last spring session and it was joyful to look back and think about when this group of students first started.

Many of them came all the way through the academic year to my STEM classes every week!

I can see how they have grown confidence, developed a whole set of skills and become more inquisitive and problem solving. Moreover, they learnt to follow protocols and directions, to run experiments and develop projects. They made friends and enjoyed the free play time at the end of each session with them. I am so happy and proud of them!

Happy summer friends and thank you for all you have done to make Boston STEM Lab be the program it is.

Engineering Design Challenges

Our online curriculum invites for hands-on activities. We do not leave the “E” for Engineering out of our STEM learning. So you will find engineering design challenges that your child will enjoy tackling.

In the four seasons music and more program you will find everything you need for you to bring a fun STEAM learning to your home:

• An eBook with pictures and easy to follow directions
• Picture book suggestions to pair with each activity
• Videos for you and your child with step by step to do the activities
• Printable documents to pair with the hands-on learning
• Art, Music, Poetry and STEM lessons for the four seasons.
•Materials list and set up suggestions as well
• Play-based and hands-on learning

It’s only $15/ month or $160 for the yearly access. You won’t regret investing in it for you and your child.

Leaf prints 🍃

Next week in our spring program we are going to explore leaves and talk about how plants "drink" water. We are going to set up an experiment to observe water transport in plants and we are going to make leaf prints. For our story time, we will read: A leaf can be... by Laura Purdie Salas.

If you can’t join us in-person, you can get access to our STEM lesson in our online curriculum.

The curriculum includes pre-recorded videos with step by step directions, an eBook with lesson plans and printable documents to pair with each activity and recommend readings, poetry, music, art and STEM. It’s really fantastic!

Get it right away and start learning along with your kid, it’s only $15/month or $160 for the yearly access.

Whether is a rainy day or you have to do some work and your kids want to get hands-on here it is this amazing bundle with with pre-recorded videos and written directions for your home.

Grab the Four Seasons: Music and More Curriculum and let us take some of the load off when it comes to your little one's early education and fun!

The Four Seasons: Music and More is perfect for busy parents who want their kids to get the best start possible, but want the teaching to just feel like play!

You get to learn alongside your little one while we introduce great music poetry, art and STEM to your family in fun and engaging ways.

You’ll find:

• An eBook with the curriculum
• Picture book suggestions to pair with each activity
• Videos for your child with step by step directions
• Printable documents to pair with the hands-on learning
• Art, Music, Poetry and STEM lessons for the four seasons.
•Materials list and written directions.

It’s only $15/ month or $160 for the yearly access. You won’t regret investing in it for you and your child. Click here: https://www.clapforclassics.com/a/2147492808/n4FsBZsa

STEM Lab today

We started with a fruit dissection. This is an experiment to see what’s inside a fruit. It’s great to discover that fruits are like suitcases for seeds as the picture book: “A fruit is a suitcase for seeds” suggests.

In our seeds lab we also set a germination experiment to answer the question: what makes a seed a seed? And students observed different types of seeds with the dissection microscope, we had so much fun!

If you want to have access to our spring, summer, fall and winter STEM curriculums from home purchase our online program, it’s great!

🌈 Rainbow painting!

We are full of color this week here and doing everything “rainbow”. This STEAM activity is so easy to set, kids love it and the outcome is beautiful!

Swipe 👉 to see materials list and set up suggestions. Let me know if you try it!

#🌈 🌈

The Bonus ends tonight! Grab our Four Seasons: Music and More Curriculum and we'll throw in a music course of your choice.

Choose from:
-The Nutcracker
-Blast Off
-Music Around the World
-Fairy Tales
-Nursery Rhyme Baby Time

Link also in bio: https://www.clapforclassics.com/a/2147492808/n4FsBZsa

Let us take some of the load off when it comes to your little one's early education!

The Four Seasons: Music and More is perfect for busy parents who want their kids to get the best start possible, but want the teaching to just feel like play!

You get to learn alongside your little one while we introduce great music poetry, art and science to your family in fun and engaging ways.

https://www.clapforclassics.com/a/2147492808/n4FsBZsa

Girls STEM Club this week was great!

It was insects BINGO this week in our STEM Lab, microscopes for specimens observations, grasshoppers tasting and interactions with ladybugs and butterflies.

What a blast we had! If you wish you could join us but you cannot and would like to have access to our curriculum for you to enjoy our hands-on STEM activities at home with your child, comment with a 🦋 and I’ll send you the link with details!

Are you coming? It's not too late to sign- up. Starts soon: Today! (April 22nd) at 12 Eastern/ 11 Central/ 10 Mountain/ 9 Pacific (Replay will be available for those who register.) Click link in bio or here below!

https://www.clapforclassics.com/a/2147509376/n4FsBZsa

🌍 Earth Day 🌎
Psychedelic Milk Experiment

We love this experiment and today we made an Earth Day themed version. You can also try this at home with you kids. It requires only a few materials. It’s quick and fun!

What you need for the experiment:

🥣 a shallow dish
🥛 milk
🎨 food coloring
🧻 Cotton swab
🧼 liquid dish soap mixed with water 💧

How to do the experiment?

1- Pour some milk in the dish, just enough to cover the bottom of it.
2- Add some drops of food coloring on the milk (we used green and blue for our Earth Day theme).
3- Dip a cotton swab I n the dish soap and then with the tip of it touch the dots of food coloring you placed on the milk. Before you do this make a prediction of what will happen.
4- See what happens and enjoy the show!

Can you tell me what’s the science behind this experiment?