STEM: Interdisciplinary

When an abandoned 20-story building needs to be safely demolished and reduced to 80,000 tons of rubble, who do you call? Master blasters! These are the engineers who use precisely placed… Read More →

Have you ever taken something apart to see how it works? As a child, Grace Hopper took apart five alarm clocks in a row, trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together. As an adult, she Read More →

Verse forzado a dejar su hogar es algo que nadie quiere experimentar. Pero el cambio climático está causando inundaciones, nuevos patrones meteorológicos y la destrucción de casas y ciudades. Read More →

Do you play computer games? If you do, you've probably played Minecraft. When Minecraft creator Markus Persson was young, he wasn't very interested in the games themselves. He was more… Read More →

Late one night, ecologist Jonathan Martin was searching for tree frogs in his Wisconsin backyard when he made an unexpected discovery. As he shined an ultraviolet flashlight in the direction… Read More →

Have you ever looked up at the twinkling stars in the night sky? Nancy Grace Roman looked up and never looked back. Roman was fascinated with the stars ever since her mother showed her the… Read More →

What do you want to be when you grow up? When Katherine Johnson was young, women weren't expected to go into the math and science fields. Johnson loved math, but she never thought she could… Read More →

Do you play video games? If you do, you've probably played a game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto pioneered a new kind of game based on story and characters, rather than competition… Read More →

Do you enjoy performing experiments or studying how the universe works? Growing up in China, Chien-Shiung Wu enjoyed learning about science. As an adult, she earned her PhD in physics and… Read More →

La Tierra está compuesta en casi un 70 % por agua. La mayor parte de esta agua está congelada en forma de glaciares. A medida que nuestro planeta se calienta, los glaciares se están… Read More →

Earth is nearly 70 percent water. Most of this water is frozen in the form of glaciers. As our planet warms, glaciers are melting faster than usual. Sea levels rise, and water washes over… Read More →

Do you enjoy playing computer games or learning programming code? As a child, Ada Lovelace loved learning about math and science. As an adult, she used that knowledge to create the first… Read More →

This essential guide to building and using an inclusive STEM classroom library combines theory and lesson plans for educators of students in grades 2–3. Discover how to audit classroom… Read More →

This essential guide to building and using an inclusive STEM classroom library combines theory and lesson plans for educators of students in grades 4–5. Discover how to audit classroom… Read More →

This essential guide to building and using an inclusive STEM classroom library combines theory and lesson plans for educators of students in grades 6–8. Discover how to audit classroom… Read More →

This essential guide to building and using an inclusive STEM classroom library combines theory and lesson plans for educators of students in grades PreK-1. Discover how to audit classroom… Read More →

Discover some of the inspirational men and women who have received Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine from 1901 to the present day, among them Marie Curie, Hermann Joseph Muller, Read More →

Fake news, pseudoscience, and quackery have become scourges, spreading through society from social media all the way to Congress. The line between entertainment and reality, between fact and… Read More →

Do you think science is fun and exciting? Bill Nye does. In fact, he wanted to become an astronaut, but NASA rejected his applications. Instead, Nye has spent his career helping other people… Read More →

Have you ever watched video of astronauts walking on the moon? Margaret Hamilton programmed software that helped get them there. As a girl, Hamilton loved math and science. She grew up during Read More →

Are you a fan of computers? When Elon Musk was growing up, he taught himself computer programming so he could design his own games. As an adult, he set out to design much more complex tech… Read More →