A teaching method in which students gain knowledge, skills, and learn about a subject by investigating and responding to an authentic and complex question, problem, or challenge.
Celebrated on September 17, Constitution Day and Citizenship Day commemorates the 1787 signing of the US Constitution and honors all citizens, including naturalized ones. It promotes civic education regarding the document’s history and rights, while highlighting the responsibilities of American citizenship and encouraging community engagement.
Society for Science STEM Research Grants provide support to middle school and high school teachers engaging their students in authentic scientific research. Priority is given to schools that lack access to funding for research equipment.
History does not live only in books, archives, or official commemorations. It lives in public spaces where people encounter stories, places, memory, and meaning together.
What If Math is a reinvention of our mathematics curriculum. Today’s K–12 curriculum was defined in the year 1202 by Leonardo of Pisa to give merchants and traders a better system for doing their math. However, today computers do the algorithms for us, and business is no longer primarily about solving equations. Rather, business involves the use of spreadsheets and functional thinking.
The first week of school is an important time for building community and focusing on students’ social–emotional learning. Students will be more likely to engage, take risks, and support one another if they feel a sense of trust and belonging among the group members and with their teacher.
Conflict has been a constant state throughout human history. While different regions have periods of peace, conflict is always occurring in some part of the globe at any given time.
Engineering and innovation help us solve challenges we see every day. ORISE (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education) invites all K–12 students to develop an engineering solution to a realworld problem and pitch their idea using clear STEM reasoning.
Children ask big philosophical questions: Are dreams real? Do animals have feelings? Why do bad things happen? But often their thoughts and questions are not taken seriously. PLATO (Philosophy Learning And Teaching Organization) nurtures young people’s curiosity, critical thinking, and desire to explore big questions through philosophy and ethics programs for students, educators, and families.
The KidWind Project is a program of Gale Force Education, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps teachers and students creatively explore the science, technology, and implications of a world powered by clean energy. Each year thousands of students design and test their own small-scale wind turbines and solar homes, fostering curiosity, developing STEM skills, and preparing for future careers in clean energy.
As our nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment to reflect on our shared story and collective future.