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Straight from the pages of OKIDO magazine, these fun experiments and 'learning through play' activities are perfect for curious and creative children to learn about science.
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How to Write Your Name in Braille

Learn how to write your name in braille, a different way of writing the alphabet for the blind and visually impaired who rely on touch as a means of communication. It is based on six dots, like the design on a domino. It consists of 63 symbols, made up of all the possible combinations of […]

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The Benefits of Digital Play in Early Years Learning

In today’s early years learning landscape children have access to devices and content to enable multi-sensory exploration through digital play. Digital play need not be passive – it can be active, creative and collaborative. When the content, device and interactivity are purposefully designed well for their age group, digital play can support physical, cognitive and […]

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Ada lovelace: The World's First Programmer

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Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace is widely known as the world’s first computer programmer. In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.   Ada Lovelace, also known as “The Enchantress of Numbers.”   Daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, she was born Augusta Ada Byron on […]

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The wood wide web: How trees talk to each other

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The wood wide web: How trees talk to each other

The wood wide web, coined and discovered by Dr. Suzanne Simard in 1990, is the intricate process of how trees talk and help each other. More specifically, it is a complex underground web of roots and mycorrhizal fungi that connect trees and other plants to one another.   “At the time, lots of people in […]

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What makes a flower? The four key parts of flower anatomy.

What is a flower? A flower is the reproductive structure of flowering plants. Many flowers that rely on pollinators, such as birds, butterflies and bees, have evolved to have brightly coloured petals and appealing scents as a way to attract their attention. Although all flowers are different, they have four main parts that make up […]

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Everything You Need to Know About STEAM Education

Did you know that Nobel Prize winning scientists also happen to be 17 times more likely to be painters than the average Joe? They are four times more likely to play an instrument too, and 12 times more likely to write poetry. After all, Leonardo da Vinci skipped between art, science and engineering. Galileo penned […]

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The Importance of STEM Learning Through Play

Children are motivated to play, but when they do, they’re not just entertaining themselves; it’s one of the main ways that they learn. In fact, play is considered so important that the UN identified ‘the right to play’ as one of the cornerstones of its ‘Convention on the Rights of the Child.’ Play can aid […]

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Science For Kids: Making Science Fun for Children

From gravity to medicine, science has led to the discovery of – well, everything! OK, maybe not everything, but a whole lot more than we give it credit for. Science is based on curiosity; when children want to learn more about the world around them, it’s science that often holds the clues they need for […]

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