Explore STEAM with Young Children – Early Learning Project

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) learning activities provide opportunities for young children to develop skills across developmental domains. This list provides resources to help teachers and caregivers plan developmentally appropriate STEAM activities for young children.

IEL Resources

Please note that IEL has many resources on the individual aspects of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). Explore our website to find them. The items listed below relate specifically to STEAM as a whole.

Tool Kit: Make a Mess and Explore STEAM
Podcast: Process Play and STEAM: Getting Started

Web Resources

Back to School: Making and Tinkering with STEM (inglés)
Fuente: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Building Blocks of Learning (inglés)
Fuente: University of Delaware

Cat in the Hat: A House Just Right for Me! (inglés)
Fuente: PBS

Engaging Children in STEM Education Early (inglés)
Fuente: Natural Start Alliance

How to Identify Effective STEM Activities for Children (inglés)
Fuente: Baylor University

Inclusion in STEM (inglés)
Fuente: STEMIE (Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education)

El Mundo Divertido de Peep
Peep and the Big Wide World (inglés)
Fuente: PBS

Puzzle Play: An Easy Way to Boost Early Spatial and Math Learning (inglés)
Fuente: Development and Research in Early Math Education

Reading Together (inglés)
Fuente: Development and Research in Early Math Education

Scribbling Machines (inglés)
Fuente: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

STEM at the Sea (inglés)
Fuente: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Take it Outside! Adventures in Nature with STEAM (inglés)
Fuente: Head Start ECLKC

Teacher Time: Infant Toddler Cognition – Supporting Early Math (inglés)
Fuente: National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning (NCECDTL)

Pensar como un inventor
Think Like an Inventor (inglés)
Fuente: Colorin Colorado

Understanding STEAM and How Children Use it (inglés)
Fuente: Head Start ECLKC