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I'm looking for a few things I can throw under a general heading like "STEAM" for about 3rd-6th grades. Not just educational games or learning apps like DuoLingo but some things that promote some doing and creativity, to introduce them to some new things. I want to tell them to pick one or two to work on every day, fairly independently. Could be sites or apps. Free or inexpensive is good. 

 

So far, I have:

Stop Motion movie app

Hour of Code

Scratch programming 

Synthesia (We do have the keyboard for this.)

RockSmith (We have the guitars for this.)

StoryBird (I haven't looked at this much.)

SketchUp

 

I'd love some other suggestions. Drawing or other art, maybe. They like technology; I'd like to capitalize on that. 

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So I ended up settling on these, and we shall see how they go:

RockSmith

Synthesia

Hour of Code

Scratch

SketchUp

Chess.com Lessons

Drawing with Jerry's Artarama

Musictheory.net Lessons

Animation with Pixar via Khan Academy

ASL via LifePrint.com (maybe)

Just wanted to introduce them to a few new things. 

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Have you seem the DIY app? Lots and lots of neat ideas for kids in all different STEAM related categories. They complete challenges, upload their projects, and get badges. There is also a social component to it, which could be a positive or negative, depending on your perspective:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/diy-app-creative-community-for-kids/id519308960?mt=8

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