One activity that could help to integrate STEM into day-to-day activities is baking. Baking will stimulate math skills when it comes to measuring ingredients, following steps and thinking of other options when they have to replace one ingredient for the other. This will also increase problem-solving competencies as you have to know what ingredients have the same effect in terms of baking/cooking.

One other thing could be shopping. A simple task such as shopping will require them to think about prices, placement, needs and adding. You could use this in order to develop math thinking. When shopping, you could help to introduce more STEM-specific language and combine those with the main goal of this activity. Using words such as “adding”, “taxes”, “amount”, and “discount” could help them to get used to their meaning and usability.

There are other examples such as cleaning, where you can develop scientific thought on how to combine products in order to get better results. Problem-solving is also used as there would be a need to think about what other products have the same results. Maths could also be used to calculate the amount of solution needed to cover an amount of surface.