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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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Collaboration + Good Coffee = Connected Science Learning Success
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A collaboration between two North Carolina state agencies allows in-school and out-of-school educators to share knowledge, engage students in in-school and out-of-school opportunities, and develop learning communities…
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Showing how various math and science topics relate to the real world is the key to motivating youth to pursue STEM careers. This idea is essential to the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) BLOSSOMS initiative…
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Editor Dennis Schatz introduces the third issue, focused on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning surrounds us. This issue features contributions on the theme of STEM Learning…
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Learn how rural students in Kentucky shared their classroom knowledge by presenting on health topics and new technologies at flea markets, swap meets, and specialty events such as car shows. Students can…
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STEM Learning Across Boundaries
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It’s important to acknowledge that words matter in research communities. Bronwyn Bevan discusses the language surrounding in-school and out-of-school communities used in Connected Science Learning. The goal of…
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Modeling Collaboration for Learning
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The Science Museum of Minnesota’s offers a well-developed model for implementing the Engineering is Elementary curriculum in Minnesota school districts for grades K–5, as well as a program for preservice teachers and…
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Skynet Junior Scholars (SJS) is an online astronomy program that allows youth to conduct inquiry-based investigations. This article describes the SJS professional development model (SJS PD) that helps nonschool…
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Professional Development Disguised as Museum Outreach
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Exploration Place shows how its educators embedded professional development into elementary classrooms in Wichita, Kansas. Have you ever been to a professional development (PD) session where you sat and…
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Through a business funded collaborative, this Research Experience for Teachers program involves businesses, schools, and a museum to give teachers first-hand knowledge of what it’s like to do science in the corporate…
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