Teaching Kids Engineering

Explore how we are teaching our sons about being an engineer. These simple activities are teaching our sons what an engineer really does!

About a year ago I made some homemade valentines cards for my youngest son to give out to his class at preschool. We made valentine’s cards that included a small baking soda heart glued on, and made them a few days in advance, just to make sure they had time […]

Fizzy Homemade Valentines Cards

11 Feb, 2021 in Engineering for kids / Teaching Kids Engineering tagged STEM / STEM activity / stem activity for kids / valentine's day STEM by Homeschool Momgineer

What if learning to code a programming languages was like learning to speak a new language. Studies have shown that the earlier in life you are exposed to a language, the easier it is to learn the language later in life. So if you want your children to be comfortable […]

8 Baby Coding Books

31 Aug, 2019 in Teaching Kids Engineering tagged coding / coding for kids / programming for kids by Homeschool Momgineer

In my last post I wrote about a science experiment I did with all three of my boys. Since then, I’ve been looking for other science experiments and STEM toys for my kids to do together. Then I was contacted by Jarrby toys, and asked to review one of their […]

My Preschooler’s Favorite Building STEM Toy

25 Jul, 2018 in Engineering for kids / Teaching Kids Engineering tagged educational toys / engineering for kids / engineering toys / engineering toys for girls / STEM / STEM toys by Homeschool Momgineer

Troubleshooting is a key skill for engineers to develop. For some it comes easy, but for me it was a skill I had to develop on the job. Troubleshooting is essentially trying out different things to fix something that is broken. It is brainstorming possible reasons why something isn’t working […]

Troubleshooting Your Bot

26 Mar, 2018 in Engineering for kids / Teaching Kids Engineering tagged educational toys / engineering activities for kids / engineering for kids / engineering toys / engineering toys for girls / how a robot works / robot science / STEM / STEM toys by Homeschool Momgineer

Awhile back, my son and I decided to recycle some of his old crayons around Valentine’s Day. We tried melting some broken red, white, and pink crayons, and melting them all at the same time. But while we waited for them to melt, we had some unexpected results, which left […]

Rainbow Crayon – a Crayon Melting Point Experiment

16 Mar, 2018 in Science Experiments / Teaching Kids Engineering tagged crayon activities / engineering activities for kids / engineering for kids / engineering projects for kids / experiment / science experiment / St. Patrick's Day / STEM by Homeschool Momgineer

It’s your senior year in high school, and you’re trying to decide what to do with the rest of your life. You know the next step is college, but what should you major in? When I was 18, I wanted to be a pediatrician, but also knew that medical school […]

7 Reasons to Major in Engineering

29 Jan, 2016 in Majoring in Engineering / Teaching Kids Engineering / Women in Engineering by Homeschool Momgineer