All Informal Education resources

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Science Action Club

Youth in Science Action Club (SAC) use citizen science to investigate nature, document their discoveries, share data with the scientific community, ...

By Laura Herszenhorn, Katie Levedahl, and Suzi Taylor

Informal Education

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Promoting STEM Interest and Connections to Nature Through a Soundscape Ecology Camp for Students With Visual Impairments

The Center for Global Soundscapes developed a five-day camp program for students with visual impairments that follows an inquiry-based learning appr...

By Maryam Ghadiri, Dante Francomano, Kristen Bellisario, and Bryan Pijanowski

Informal Education

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PEEP and the Big Wide World

PEEP and the Big Wide World is a public television show and website devoted to engaging preschool-aged children in developmentally appropriate scien...

By Borgna Brunner

Informal Education

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Preschool in a Science Center

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 th...

By Amber Forrest, Jolie Pelds, and Renee Harmon

Informal Education

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TeachEngineering Digital Library

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By Dua Chaker

Informal Education

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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