In recent years, Steve Smith’s chemistry class at Animas High School has traded in their beakers and Bunsen burners — at least for one impactful unit — in favor of complicated datasets and graphic ...

What is STEM and why is it such a big deal in schools these days? In 2005 a paper was published that sounded alarm bells about the state of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education ...

Corey Murray is a former managing editor of EdTech: Focus on K–12 and a 20-year veteran of writing about educational technology. As pressure mounts to better prepare our students for increasingly ...

Educators across the globe are working to engage students in STEM learning. Hands-on instruction is key to promoting student understanding of STEM concepts, but how do we do that remotely? Our ongoing ...

Looking for innovative ways to bring computational thinking and computer science skills to your STEM classes? MINECRAFT: EDUCATION EDITION might be just the teaching tool for you, whether you’re an ...

SLI is a collaboration of CU, Simon Fraser University, Saint Louis University, TERC, and teachers in Colorado, Missouri, and Massachusetts. Our team is developing and implementing a model of youth ...

WITH Malaysia attracting more high-tech investments, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education must ...

Merek Chang is a high school chemistry and engineering teacher in Southern Califronia and is a KQED Media Literacy Innovator. Learn how to incorporate infographics into your STEM classroom at our ...

The problems start when girls are young. According to the Girl Scout Research Institute, many young girls are losing interest in pursuing careers in STEM. Overall, only 13 percent of young girls ...

Questions about effectiveness can be addressed only in the context of the purposes or goals one wants to measure. Three broad and widely espoused goals for K-12 STEM education in the United States ...