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Connecting Urban Families With Environmental Science
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The PLUM LANDING Explore Outdoors Toolkit is a new set of free, public media resources designed to help informal educators and parents infuse science learning into outdoor recreation. Few people think…
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Youth in Science Action Club (SAC) use citizen science to investigate nature, document their discoveries, share data with the scientific community, and design strategies to protect the planet. Through collaborations…
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A New Year for Connected Science Learning
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Connected Science Learning Editor Dennis Schatz provides readers with news about behind-the-scenes updates for the journal. Funding to support Connected Science Learning We are delighted to announce that The…
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PEEP and the Big Wide World is a public television show and website devoted to engaging preschool-aged children in developmentally appropriate science. PEEP’s newest effort is to address the needs of home-based, family…
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The Science Center of Iowa in Des Moines began an on-site preschool shortly after its doors opened in 1970, inspired by the founders’ belief in the importance of science education for early childhood learners.…
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TeachEngineering Digital Library
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A visual representation of the various curriculum types TeachEngineering offers. The TeachEngineering Digital Library is a free, online collection of K–12 curricular materials that focus on integrating engineering…
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Brown University’s Science Cartoons (SciToons) series makes science fun, engaging, and easier to understand through the captivating power of storytelling and animation. Brown University’s four- to five-minute…
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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 provide training for teachers and opportunities for family engagement…
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Creating Professional Development for Informal and K–12 Educators
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The results of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate surveys help science education professional development providers successfully work with educators. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) explores the Earth…
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The Head Start on Engineering project engages parents and children in a multicomponent family engineering program that includes professional development for teachers, workshops for parents, take-home family activity…
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A Screencasting Strategy to Support STEM Learning in the Early Grades
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Learn how a research–practice partnership used screencasting to promote early elementary students’ mathematics learning and communication. It is a winter day in Auburn, Maine. Twenty second-grade students in…
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Informal Science Learning in Online Affinity Spaces
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Affinity spaces are online forums in which participants, including informal science education professionals, share with one another teaching and learning resources on a given topic. Affinity spaces are online…
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In the Billion Oyster Project, middle school students study and conduct field research of New York Harbor and its watershed to support restoration of native oyster habitats. The project is developing and testing a…
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Free reports from the National Research Council and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine can help practitioners bridge in-school and out-of-school STEM learning. On average, students…
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Facilitating Formal–Informal Connections in Rural STEM Ecosystems
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“STEM Guides” serve as human brokers to connect 10- to 18-year-old youth from rural Maine in STEM education opportunities that already exist in their communities, including after-school programs, clubs, camps, library…
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