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STEAM Portal – STEAM Resources for Any Classroom
OER Commons selected featured STEAM resources that integrate science, technology, engineering, art and math into the lessons. Search by subject and grades level
STEM Resource Site Wesley Fryer's plethora of resource
STEM Essentials–The Nitty Gritty of Teaching STEM by Get Caught Engineering
A nice collection of resources to help you manage STEM time
Real-World STEM Problems
More Real-World STEM Problems
STEAM Youtube Channels
Bring Students Together to Tackle World Problems Click Here to Visit Website Online spot to get involved in real-world problem solving using science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. The Global STEM Alliance in an effort to bring students from across the globe together to solve world problems. The Alliance will start by having one spot online for students to get involved with STEM projects, even help them find STEM internships.
How to create real-world STEM lessons Having students solve real-world problems builds their empathy along with their science, technology, engineering and math skills, former middle-grades science teacher Anne Jolly writes. She outlines criteria teachers can use for developing such lessons and offers a list of online resources
STEM on a Shoestring K-5
STEM Alive: PBS Learning provides a series of educator training videos focused on STEM topics. Each video explores a lesson plan based on the teacher-tested, learner-centered RAFT Idea Sheets.
STEM Learning resources from UK for Primary and secondary
The Best STEM Challenges Ever gr. 2 -8 Numerous challenges at various grade levels. detailed instructions and resources, Some free and the paid ones are no more than $5
A Week of STEAM Challenges
28 STEM CHALLENGES FOR THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM for example: Water Puddle Evaporation, What tools would work best to Create an Umbrella? Simple Machines to try to make a snack machine! and more
The Concord Consorium Excellent STEM activities Help your students learn with hundreds of interactive, research-based resources covering a huge variety of science, engineering, and math topics.
Stand Up for STEM students learn about discrepant events using two glass jars, two chunks of wax, duct tape, tap water and rubbing alcohol? Find out in Stand Up for STEM lesson series for grades 3-5. These four lessons will help students have fun and see themselves in STEM fields.
The STEMAZing Project www.STEMAZing.org. The STEMAZing Project identifies high quality STEM resources and provides professional development to PreK through 12th grade educators. STEMAZing.org houses The STEMAZing Project’s collection of educator-to-educator recommended resources for PreK through 12th grade educators.
Connected Science Learning from NSTA is a peer-reviewed online journal that highlights STEM education experiences that bridge the gap between in-school and out-of-school settings. It features articles about highly effective programs and shares research that connects preK–12 STEM learning in schools and out-of-school settings, specifically highlighting effective mechanisms for collaboration.
STEM to STEAM - This organization is an advocate for STEAM education. It contains resources and information that allows educators to promote the Arts in STEM education (STEAM). An objective of the STEAM movement is to transform research policy with a goal place Art + Design at the center of STEM.
Blendspace – This tool is one of the easiest ways to blend the classroom with digital content. Teachers can collect and organize web resources in one place and share with just one link. It is also possible to assess students and measure student understanding with built-in quizzes. There are even tools to monitor student progress while adapting to individual needs in real-time. The easy drag and drop interface allows a STEM lesson to be completed in 5 minutes!
TeachersDomain - Want to continue doing a flip? Then visit this site from WGBH, a PBS station in Boston. You will find videos, activities, and simulations! Best of all, you can archive it in your own classroom at the Teachers Domain Site
STEAM Unit 6 lessons to introduce STEAM with design process, book lists, and challenges.
STEM in Sports Page
PBS Teachers - Brand new site filled with lots of resources and videos. Search by grade level and curriculum area. Teachers can create an online classroom filled with outstanding and engaging material.
Wolframalpha - Not your typical search engine. This is a computational search engine that is a plus for any STEM educator. It is easy to use and its ability to find data is just plain fun!
Ciese- Dedicated to improving K-16 STEM education through the meaningful and effective integration of technology, CIESE fosters the use of research-based instructional methodologies and technologies to improve and pioneer novel technologies to explore and better understand their impact on improved education and society.
Nuskool This is a site that uses pop culture as teaching moments for students. Tailored to grades 6th-12th students learn a variety of subjects such as: Math, Science, English, etc through educational lessons based on the different elements of pop culture (video games, sports, films, etc.).
Stem Seeds a teacher-created website and podcast / webcast about STEM lesson ideas, links, and connections.
Making Stuff
Grades 6-12 | Collection | Materials Science
Join technology columnist David Pogue as he delves hands-first into the field of materials science. Find out which materials he thinks will play a role in shaping the future.
Sparticl is a site for finding STEM based resources. There are over 2500 curated resources on a wide variety of subjects. Best of all a user can login and curate their own lists of resources and even vote/comment on them.
Sally Ride Science STEM Central website combines social tools with user-generated links to create a storehouse of reliable resources that are “reviewed, rated and ready-to-use.” This free web resource is designed for educators and students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics andcareers. The site offers thousands of links to articles, videos, maps, animations and other media specifically focused on the needs of educators and students. Users searching STEM Central may apply a wide variety of filters to search by topic, grade level and media type.
SciGirls is changing how girls think about science, technology, engineering, and math! Each episode of SciGirls highlights the processes of science and engineering, following a different group of middle school girls who work with mentors to design their own inquiry-based investigations on a variety of topics. Explore the Collection
Learning Reviews - The PBL portion of this site provides some outstanding links to web resources that cover science, math, engineering and technology. You will find grade levels along with the number of resources supplied.
A STEM Diet of Awesome Snacks that Scaffolds into PBL… Better Then Dessert!
Exploratorium Snack Home Page . gr. 8 - 12You can also explore them by subject, supplies, or an A-Z listing. Think of a Snack as a wonderful way to increase your students' appetite for STEM inquiry, learning, and exploration. These Snacks are bite size opportunities to bring science alive in small but engaging size.
The Jason Project – set of free digital curricula filled with multi-media, simulations, readings, class activities, and projects! Check out that roller coaster simulation just to name one!
Siemens Discovery STEM Academy – Vast amount of lessons, multimedia and activities, along with webinars, that are some of the finest for both student learning and teacher professional development
Learning Reviews – The PBL portion of this site provides some outstanding links to web resources that cover science, math, engineering and technology. You will find grade levels along with the number of resources supplied.
eGFI Dream Up The Future – A huge database that will engage students with its colorful and student centered interface. Make sure to check all the links, including all the STEM resources found in the Teacher Resource area.
Web Adventures ( Click Here to Access Web Adventures in English )in science designed to teach students the process of forensic investigation and problem solving. Each of the free Web Adventures is appropriate for middle school or high school use. In each adventure, students take on the role of a scientist to solve a crime, conduct experiments and learn about scientific methods and processes. In Cool Science Careers, students explore five STEM-based career areas. The adventure begins with a 21-question interest survey. How students progress through the activity is based in part on how they respond to the interest survey. CSI: The Experience is based on the CSI television show. In this set of Web Adventure, students find out if they have what it takes to be a forensic scientist. There are fou r CSI cases of increasing difficulty. In Med Myst, students learn about microbiology through a series of interactive lessons and games. Med Myst focuses on infectious diseases and how to prevent the spread of those diseases.Reconstructors includes three games in which students need to gather evidence and data to solve drug-related cases. Virtual Clinical Trials puts students into the role of research scientists who are working toward developing treatments for spinal cord injuries, depression and brain injuries. In the N-Squad adventure, students investigate the effects of alcohol on the digestive, circulatory and nervous systems. The Web Adventures are accessible in English and Spanish
NSF Resources For STEM Education – A great collection of teacher resources, instructional materials, assessment, and up-to-date research regarding STEM.
PBS STEM Education Resources Center – Great information from PBS including engaging lessons, activities, and of course those award winning PBS videos.
NSF Resources For STEM Education – A great collection of teacher resources, instructional materials, assessment, and up-to-date research regarding STEM.
NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resource that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations.
Design Squad Nation – Another great service from PBS filled with some entertaining and engaging ways to integrate STEM into any classroom.
NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resource that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations.
NASA… Over 2000 STEM Education Resources
Design Squad from PBS Kids features a great collection of hands-on activities for elementary and middle school students. The activities are designed to help students explore engineering concepts. The collection of activities is divided into ten categories. The categories are technology, structures, sports, space, sound, simple machines, health, green, energy, and electricity. Each activity contains a materials list and directions. Some of the activities also have demonstration videos.
Autodesk Digital Steam Workshop - Digital STEAM projects are designed by Autodesk’s network of expert educators, designers and student alumni as exciting complements to core Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art (STEAM) curriculum. Each project aligns with common core and national standards, and delivers measurable learning while using free software.
STEAM Portal – STEAM Resources for Any Classroom
OER Commons selected featured STEAM resources that integrate science, technology, engineering, art and math into the lessons. Search by subject and grades level
STEM Resource Site Wesley Fryer's plethora of resource
STEM Essentials–The Nitty Gritty of Teaching STEM by Get Caught Engineering
A nice collection of resources to help you manage STEM time
Real-World STEM Problems
More Real-World STEM Problems
STEAM Youtube Channels
Bring Students Together to Tackle World Problems Click Here to Visit Website Online spot to get involved in real-world problem solving using science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. The Global STEM Alliance in an effort to bring students from across the globe together to solve world problems. The Alliance will start by having one spot online for students to get involved with STEM projects, even help them find STEM internships.
How to create real-world STEM lessons Having students solve real-world problems builds their empathy along with their science, technology, engineering and math skills, former middle-grades science teacher Anne Jolly writes. She outlines criteria teachers can use for developing such lessons and offers a list of online resources
STEM on a Shoestring K-5
STEM Alive: PBS Learning provides a series of educator training videos focused on STEM topics. Each video explores a lesson plan based on the teacher-tested, learner-centered RAFT Idea Sheets.
STEM Learning resources from UK for Primary and secondary
The Best STEM Challenges Ever gr. 2 -8 Numerous challenges at various grade levels. detailed instructions and resources, Some free and the paid ones are no more than $5
A Week of STEAM Challenges
28 STEM CHALLENGES FOR THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM for example: Water Puddle Evaporation, What tools would work best to Create an Umbrella? Simple Machines to try to make a snack machine! and more
The Concord Consorium Excellent STEM activities Help your students learn with hundreds of interactive, research-based resources covering a huge variety of science, engineering, and math topics.
Stand Up for STEM students learn about discrepant events using two glass jars, two chunks of wax, duct tape, tap water and rubbing alcohol? Find out in Stand Up for STEM lesson series for grades 3-5. These four lessons will help students have fun and see themselves in STEM fields.
The STEMAZing Project www.STEMAZing.org. The STEMAZing Project identifies high quality STEM resources and provides professional development to PreK through 12th grade educators. STEMAZing.org houses The STEMAZing Project’s collection of educator-to-educator recommended resources for PreK through 12th grade educators.
Connected Science Learning from NSTA is a peer-reviewed online journal that highlights STEM education experiences that bridge the gap between in-school and out-of-school settings. It features articles about highly effective programs and shares research that connects preK–12 STEM learning in schools and out-of-school settings, specifically highlighting effective mechanisms for collaboration.
STEM to STEAM - This organization is an advocate for STEAM education. It contains resources and information that allows educators to promote the Arts in STEM education (STEAM). An objective of the STEAM movement is to transform research policy with a goal place Art + Design at the center of STEM.
Blendspace – This tool is one of the easiest ways to blend the classroom with digital content. Teachers can collect and organize web resources in one place and share with just one link. It is also possible to assess students and measure student understanding with built-in quizzes. There are even tools to monitor student progress while adapting to individual needs in real-time. The easy drag and drop interface allows a STEM lesson to be completed in 5 minutes!
TeachersDomain - Want to continue doing a flip? Then visit this site from WGBH, a PBS station in Boston. You will find videos, activities, and simulations! Best of all, you can archive it in your own classroom at the Teachers Domain Site
STEAM Unit 6 lessons to introduce STEAM with design process, book lists, and challenges.
STEM in Sports Page
PBS Teachers - Brand new site filled with lots of resources and videos. Search by grade level and curriculum area. Teachers can create an online classroom filled with outstanding and engaging material.
Wolframalpha - Not your typical search engine. This is a computational search engine that is a plus for any STEM educator. It is easy to use and its ability to find data is just plain fun!
Ciese- Dedicated to improving K-16 STEM education through the meaningful and effective integration of technology, CIESE fosters the use of research-based instructional methodologies and technologies to improve and pioneer novel technologies to explore and better understand their impact on improved education and society.
Nuskool This is a site that uses pop culture as teaching moments for students. Tailored to grades 6th-12th students learn a variety of subjects such as: Math, Science, English, etc through educational lessons based on the different elements of pop culture (video games, sports, films, etc.).
Stem Seeds a teacher-created website and podcast / webcast about STEM lesson ideas, links, and connections.
Making Stuff
Grades 6-12 | Collection | Materials Science
Join technology columnist David Pogue as he delves hands-first into the field of materials science. Find out which materials he thinks will play a role in shaping the future.
Sparticl is a site for finding STEM based resources. There are over 2500 curated resources on a wide variety of subjects. Best of all a user can login and curate their own lists of resources and even vote/comment on them.
Sally Ride Science STEM Central website combines social tools with user-generated links to create a storehouse of reliable resources that are “reviewed, rated and ready-to-use.” This free web resource is designed for educators and students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics andcareers. The site offers thousands of links to articles, videos, maps, animations and other media specifically focused on the needs of educators and students. Users searching STEM Central may apply a wide variety of filters to search by topic, grade level and media type.
SciGirls is changing how girls think about science, technology, engineering, and math! Each episode of SciGirls highlights the processes of science and engineering, following a different group of middle school girls who work with mentors to design their own inquiry-based investigations on a variety of topics. Explore the Collection
Learning Reviews - The PBL portion of this site provides some outstanding links to web resources that cover science, math, engineering and technology. You will find grade levels along with the number of resources supplied.
A STEM Diet of Awesome Snacks that Scaffolds into PBL… Better Then Dessert!
Exploratorium Snack Home Page . gr. 8 - 12You can also explore them by subject, supplies, or an A-Z listing. Think of a Snack as a wonderful way to increase your students' appetite for STEM inquiry, learning, and exploration. These Snacks are bite size opportunities to bring science alive in small but engaging size.
The Jason Project – set of free digital curricula filled with multi-media, simulations, readings, class activities, and projects! Check out that roller coaster simulation just to name one!
Siemens Discovery STEM Academy – Vast amount of lessons, multimedia and activities, along with webinars, that are some of the finest for both student learning and teacher professional development
Learning Reviews – The PBL portion of this site provides some outstanding links to web resources that cover science, math, engineering and technology. You will find grade levels along with the number of resources supplied.
eGFI Dream Up The Future – A huge database that will engage students with its colorful and student centered interface. Make sure to check all the links, including all the STEM resources found in the Teacher Resource area.
Web Adventures ( Click Here to Access Web Adventures in English )in science designed to teach students the process of forensic investigation and problem solving. Each of the free Web Adventures is appropriate for middle school or high school use. In each adventure, students take on the role of a scientist to solve a crime, conduct experiments and learn about scientific methods and processes. In Cool Science Careers, students explore five STEM-based career areas. The adventure begins with a 21-question interest survey. How students progress through the activity is based in part on how they respond to the interest survey. CSI: The Experience is based on the CSI television show. In this set of Web Adventure, students find out if they have what it takes to be a forensic scientist. There are fou r CSI cases of increasing difficulty. In Med Myst, students learn about microbiology through a series of interactive lessons and games. Med Myst focuses on infectious diseases and how to prevent the spread of those diseases.Reconstructors includes three games in which students need to gather evidence and data to solve drug-related cases. Virtual Clinical Trials puts students into the role of research scientists who are working toward developing treatments for spinal cord injuries, depression and brain injuries. In the N-Squad adventure, students investigate the effects of alcohol on the digestive, circulatory and nervous systems. The Web Adventures are accessible in English and Spanish
NSF Resources For STEM Education – A great collection of teacher resources, instructional materials, assessment, and up-to-date research regarding STEM.
PBS STEM Education Resources Center – Great information from PBS including engaging lessons, activities, and of course those award winning PBS videos.
NSF Resources For STEM Education – A great collection of teacher resources, instructional materials, assessment, and up-to-date research regarding STEM.
NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resource that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations.
Design Squad Nation – Another great service from PBS filled with some entertaining and engaging ways to integrate STEM into any classroom.
NSDL – The National Science Digital Library has some outstanding resource that include numerous links to some great STEM programs and organizations.
NASA… Over 2000 STEM Education Resources
Design Squad from PBS Kids features a great collection of hands-on activities for elementary and middle school students. The activities are designed to help students explore engineering concepts. The collection of activities is divided into ten categories. The categories are technology, structures, sports, space, sound, simple machines, health, green, energy, and electricity. Each activity contains a materials list and directions. Some of the activities also have demonstration videos.
Autodesk Digital Steam Workshop - Digital STEAM projects are designed by Autodesk’s network of expert educators, designers and student alumni as exciting complements to core Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art (STEAM) curriculum. Each project aligns with common core and national standards, and delivers measurable learning while using free software.