STEM in the News

Khan Academy is a leading online education site. They provide free videos and instruction in STEM subjects and beyond available to independent learners working from home.

Khan Academy

These are YouTube Channels created by the Green Brothers (also known as the Vlog Brothers). Students learn about engineering and science concepts, as well as other subjects through vivid text features, explicit explanations, and reflective questions.

Crash Course

Crash Course Kids

This site hosts a series of workshops to share practical tips, virtual experiments and other concrete tools that families – even those with little time, few resources and no STEM exposure or teaching experience – can use to engage their children’s learning.

NASA’s Universe of Learning provides resources and experiences that enable youth, families, and lifelong learners to explore fundamental questions in science, experience how science is done, and discover the universe for themselves.

NASA provides a resource for community-based organizations to stage events that explore the wonders of NASA science, and celebrate the contributions of women to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Now you can visit the center of space exploration from your home. See mission control and robot assembly facilities.

Gabriella Wilkerson of Northampton earned her Girl Scout Gold Award by creating free and fun resources for students in grades 4-8. The kits feature science experiments in both English and Spanish along with two videos.

This site features links to 239 websites that help to encourage kids and teens to pursue education and careers in STEM.

In response to the COVID-19 situation we have been working with school districts to provide support for teaching remotely. We offer virtual professional learning programs such as Going Remote with Inquiry-Based Learning and Making Place-Based Learning Phenomenal that can be customized to meet your school district’s specific needs.

Our remote programs:

• model engaging and effective remote science and engineering instruction
• align with the NGSS and the MA 2016 STE Framework
• foster instruction and assessment using the Science and Engineering Practices
• may be tailored to address the specific needs of your school or district
• include science content as well as pedagogy