Seeds of STEM
Seeds of STEM is a year-long, standards-aligned, STEM curriculum for preschool and pre-K classrooms that engages early childhood students in problem solving activities.
To encourage teachers and parents to solve problems with their young children at home, Seeds of STEM is offering weekly STEM activities, derived from the curriculum and simplified for the home environment. A full year classroom curriculum is available after PD training.
I am STEM Lesson Library
The I am STEM lesson library was created by teachers for teachers thanks to a grant from the MA STEM Advisory Council. It consists of a wide variety of STEM challenges which follow the engineering design process to have students solve problems in books! The 5-day lessons are aligned to grade-level science or math and ELA standards and incorporate culturally and linguistically responsive teaching practices.
STEM Certified Projects
Since 2019, the STEM Education Center has hosted nine co-horts of PK-12 educators for the STEM Educator Certiticate Course. During that time, educators developed more than 70 high quality, integrated STEM Challenges. We are excited to provide a sneak peek of a few challenges that were recently featured at our Project Presentation Day celebration. More lessons are expected to be released in the coming months. Stay tuned!
Research Experience for Teachers
During the summer of 2022, WPI hosted a Research Experience for Teachers(RET): Engineering for People and the Planet. Five in-service and five pre-service teachers participated in authentic research experiences on campus for six weeks. During this time, they also received weekly professional development and worked to translate their research experience into a lesson that could be used with middle or high school students.
Engineering Design Activities
These three real world problem activities were developed by the STEM Education Center for Massachusetts STEM Week in 2019. They include a short opening bridge design activity (one lesson or shorter), a 2-lesson STEM challenge related to properties of materials, and a full week STEM project about natural disasters connected to K-12 engineering standards, as well as more specifically, grades 3, 4 or 7 earth science standards.
AweSTEM!
Over the past several years, AweSTEM! has provided the STEM Education Center with the opportunity to recognize educators and education leaders for their outstanding work in STEM education. In addition, educators have presented dozens of STEM lessons and projects and have shared student experiences.
You can find links to numerous resources and project ideas by clicking on each year provided in the column on the right..