Medical Schools Offer STEM Pipeline Programs

Reports Article | February 2020

Update on NSTA STEM Forum & Expo

Press Release | March 2021

Becoming a Critical Consumer of STEM Instructional Materials

Professional Learning Unit | November 2025

Being a critical consumer of STEM Instructional materials is an important educator goal that boosts STEM career awareness and STEM career skills. 

Archive: Using Best STEM Books to Launch Authentic STEM Learning, March 25, 2026

Member Web Seminar | January 2026

Reading STEM trade books is more than a literacy experience—it is an invitation into authentic problem-solving, creative thinking, and real-world innovation. In this dynamic Book Beat Live! led by members NSTA's Best…

Resources for Teaching Science, STEM Remotely

Reports Article | May 2020

Experience STEM by the Bay This Summer With NSTA

Blog Post | June 2019

Guest blog post by Jeffrey LeGrand Douglass The exhibit hall at the 8th Annual STEM Forum & Expo, hosted by NSTA, is gonna be so LIT that even the rolling fog of San Francisco won’t be able to hide the…

Building STEM Ecosystems: Community Partnerships

Blog Post | March 2019

When I was a classroom teacher, I relished opportunities to connect my high school biology students to real world science and applications of their textbook science. Now, in the informal sector, I find my role reversed…

Sharing Enthusiasm to Increase STEM Interest

Blog Post | January 2018

Ricky Arnold. Photo credit: NASA By Ricky Arnold An unexpected thunderstorm during my ninth-grade Earth science class led me to an equally unexpected career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (…

STEM Certificate: The View from AAPT

Blog Post | November 2017

For the last several months, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has been a partner with NSTA and other professional organizations discussing the implications of a STEM certificate. There are many…

Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning

Blog Post | October 2017

Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning by Jeff Weld offers insight for educators, policy makers, and business leaders about why STEM education matters and where it’s headed next. This new NSTA Press book…

Art and motion: moving toward STEM

Blog Post | August 2017

Camp is not school. Like school, camp is play and camp is a learning environment, but the time together may not be long enough to build a community that effectively investigates together. In a half-day, five-day camp…

Partnering With Utilities for Hands-On STEM

Blog Post | October 2016

Granada High School’s Interact Club students work with David Lunn of Friends of the Arroyo to measure water turbidity during the Tri-Valley Creeks to Bay Clean-up event. Photo by William Rasor. Utility companies, hoping…

Solar Panels Enhance STEM Learning

Blog Post | July 2016

Columbia Water and Light presented a solar energy demonstration to students at Benton STEM Elementary School in Columbia, Missouri. Photo Courtesy of Heather McCullar Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)…

Adding More STEM to the School Day

Blog Post | February 2016

Middle school students dissect a frog as part of a hands-on lesson from Science from Scientists, an in-school enrichment program in Massachusetts and California. (Photo by Arturo Martinez) Schools seeking to enhance…