5 free online resources for STEM Teachers
In a modern, fast-paced world, science has become an inseparable part of our daily lives. With an increasing demand to absorb a great amount of new information every day, introducing STEM into your classroom becomes essential.
Free online resources that engage children in STEM education can be an excellent platform for young learners to explore and apply science to their learning and everyday life.
Hopefully, the following five free STEM education resources will help you spark your students’ interest, motivation, and passion for the exciting world of STEM.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational platform that provides free interactive exercises and video tutorials in nine areas:
Math: Pre-K to 8th Grade
Math: Get Ready Courses
Math: High School and College
Science
Computing
Economics
Arts and Humanities
Reading and Language
Life Skills
There are also test preparation courses for the SAT available that strengthen math skills, vocabulary, and more! In addition, children can record their progress as they learn.
While all the learning materials and online lessons are free, you can donate to support Khan Academy and its efforts to provide free education for everyone.
NASA STEM Engagement Resources
NASA STEM Engagement provides free discovery education for both students and educators. Here, you can find STEM education materials on a wide variety of topics, from space technology to NASA history.
NASA STEM Engagement courses are tailored to elementary, secondary, college, and university students. They offer a variety of research and internship opportunities to attract students to STEM and encourage them to pursue STEM careers in the future.
Pinterest is an image-sharing and social media service with a ton of free, DIY STEM activities for educators.
Pictures and videos can be easily saved in the form of pinboards. You can create up to 2,000 pinboards (to keep up a smooth Pinterest navigation system). Most of these DIY STEM projects can be done with things you have lying around your classroom or house.
PhET Interactive Simulations
PhET Interactive Simulations is a non-profit educational resource project at the University of Colorado Boulder that provides excellent research-based math and science simulations. These are flexible learning tools that students can use in many ways.
Here, you will find a wide range of videos and simulations that can be used as lecture demonstrations for students, experiments, and more.
Space School
Space School is Canada’s space education resource developed for K-12 students and teachers to promote space-related education. This free STEM education platform provides related curriculum and hands-on space projects.
Space School aims to connect the school curriculum to disciplines such as STEM, Robotics, Coding, Design, Engineering, and more.
You can use an excellent variety of lesson ideas for free to start your students’ interest in space-related topics.
Final Thoughts
These five STEM-centric online resources are free and easy to incorporate into your classroom. They can be an excellent tool to promote STEM learning, help students develop creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills, and apply them to real-life situations.
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