Let's Move! with STEM


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Getting kids to move while they're learning science can help them visualize and "experience" processes like cell division, energy transfer, circulation and planetary motion. Kinesthetic STEM learning becomes not only hands-on, but feet-on and body-on as learners' own movements simulate cells or body systems, atoms or machines. Celebrate the 5th anniversary of Let's Move! in February 2015 with Howtosmile.org explorations that use physical activity to model scientific processes and principles.

You can find hundreds of STEM activities that get kids moving with the Howtosmile.org activity search engine at at the Let's Move! Museums and Gardens site. Learners will discover human biology, earth sciences, physics and much more as they simulate the motion of:

—blood in the Circulatory System Skit activity;
—molecules in the Heat Speeds Up Reactions activity;
—complex machines in the Kid Machine activity;
—chromosomes in the Chromosome Shuffle activity
—atoms in the Four of the States of Matter activity;
—the Sun and Earth in the Solar Spin activity;
—parts of the digestive tract in the Digestive System activity;
—cell signaling molecules such as hormones in the Pathways With Friends activity.