All Informal Education resources

NSTA Press Book

Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School

If you’ve ever wished you could teach with tarantulas—or roly polys, or Madagascar hissing cockroaches—this is the resource for you. It tells ho...

By Ron Wagler

Informal Education Middle School Biology Life Science Lesson Plans

Journal Article

Increasing STEM Outcomes Through Quality Collaborations

Discover how early childhood faculty at the University of Memphis launched a new collaborative partnership with the Children’s Museum of Memphis to ...

By Shelly L. Counsell and Felicia Peat

Informal Education

Journal Article

SciToons

Brown University’s Science Cartoons (SciToons) series makes science fun, engaging, and easier to understand through the captivating power of story...

By Oludurotimi Adetunji

Informal Education

Journal Article

Itty Bitty Science

The Collaborative for Early Science Learning is a group of six museums in six different cities that partner with their local Head Start programs to ...

By Michelle Kortenaar, Victoria Fiordalis, Miriam Krause, Laurinda Willard, Cheryl Lani Juárez, Melissa Thomas, Zoe Peters, Carrie Jubran, and Alli Sribarra

Informal Education

Journal Article

Creating Professional Development for Informal and K–12 Educators

The results of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate surveys help science education professional development providers successfully work with educato...

By Lindsay Bartolone

Informal Education

Journal Article

Head Start on Engineering

The Head Start on Engineering project engages parents and children in a multicomponent family engineering program that includes professional develop...

By Scott Pattison, Gina Svarovsky, Ivel Gontan, Pam Greenough Corrie, Marcie Benne, Shannon Weiss, Verónika Nuñez, and Smirla Ramos-Montañez

Informal Education Engineering STEM

Journal Article

A Screencasting Strategy to Support STEM Learning in the Early Grades

Learn how a research–practice partnership used screencasting to promote early elementary students’ mathematics learning and communication. &n...

By Josephine Louie, Pamela Buffington, and Jennifer Stiles

Informal Education

NSTA Press Book

Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning

This is the book that will flip the way you think about STEM from “not me” to “I’m in!” Author Jeff Weld is the director of the acclaimed Io...

By Jeff Weld

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School STEM Technology Curriculum Teaching Strategies Inclusion Interdisciplinary Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Research Teacher Preparation

Journal Article

Informal Science Learning in Online Affinity Spaces

Affinity spaces are online forums in which participants, including informal science education professionals, share with one another teaching and lea...

By Richard Hudson

Informal Education

Journal Article

The Billion Oyster Project

In the Billion Oyster Project, middle school students study and conduct field research of New York Harbor and its watershed to support restoration o...

By Lauren Birney

Informal Education

Journal Article

A Museum Without Walls

The Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery strives to provide a hub for play-based science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) learning experienc...

By Jennifer Parsons, Sara L. Hartman, Jennifer Hines-Bergmeier, and Christie Truly

Middle School High School Informal Education

Journal Article

Holistic STEM Learning

Free reports from the National Research Council and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine can help practitioners bridge in-s...

By Jay B. Labov

Informal Education