learning & exploration resources

Already checked out Tinkering with Gever and our Tinkering School camps, and looking for more to do, read, and watch? Check out these great resources for curious minds.

Projects and activities

• Work your way through Gever’s 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)

• The Exploratorium’s Learning Toolbox

• Engineering challenges with stuff you have at home

• The Moth’s storytelling school for families

• Activities from NASA

• Solve a digital escape room

• Build new things with old Legos at Rebrickable

• Mystery Science experiments at home

• Drawing lessons with Mo Willems (Elephant and Piggy) and Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants)

• MAKE: Projects, from the team behind Maker Faire, has how-to’s for almost everything

• DIY for kids to learn new skills

• Mail order mystery

• Brain Chase online treasure hunt

• The Wall Street Journal’s roundup of 20 things to keep kids engaged this summer

• Every Kid Outdoors - Fourth Graders have free access to national parks!

Ideas that spark us

• The Kid Should See This: smart videos for curious minds

• TedEd short video lessons worth sharing

• Virtual tours of amazing museums

• Access endless free books and audiobooks from your local library through Libby

Programs for learning

• Tinkering School

• Outschool

• Camp EDMO

• Galileo camps anywhere

• iD Tech camps online

On pedagogy and learning

• The Mindshift education blog from KQED

• Resource for talking about race

• Project Zero

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