Science

Erika has helped develop a school-wide aerospace and drone technology initiative to help prepare students for various career opportunities. She’s been working hard on securing some new STEM supplies and designing a curriculum for enabling students to develop key skills as it relates to the evolution of technology in the aerospace industry, so we’re helping out!

Typically, with online review tools, educators can find and utilize materials for the most general and common school subjects. With Quia, there are tons of specific review materials for all students and teachers to access. Beyond general math, science, and English content, Quia has valuable games for everything from SAT skills to world languages and more.

The Whybricks kit is very affordable and designed for children as young as eight years old. It ships in an organized box with 2,100 pieces—enough for kids to divide up among as many as 20 of them. The system is built on the premise of using hands-on building blocks to help students develop and it includes both in-depth project guides

There are two Premium Kits that make up the latest Discover Drones STEM solutions. They’re simply referred to as the 7-pack and the 10-pack. Each of the kits includes the same drones that have been found in previous Discover Drones kits. What makes them unique, however, is that they’re catered directly to middle and high school students.

Students—particularly those who love trying new, STEM-related activities—might be looking for some new things to try at home by this point in time. Well, if they do, in fact, like STEM, there’s a great tool they can try on their computer. The SpaceX crew has created a docking simulation tool that anybody can use to practice their landing skills from

Boston’s Museum of Science is located right across the Charles River from us. Since they’re all so focused on science, teaching, and STEM education in particular, we have always been big fans of their work, and our CEO and President, Rick Fredkin, in particular has always found himself intrigued by these experts. Now, he will have a more prominent role

There are now two cool Expansion Packs for the STEAM Student Set—one focused on science, and one for focusing on math. You will need a littleBits STEAM Student Set in order to use the expansion packs since the learning activities are scaffolded for students in Grades 3-5 and help teachers build on prior experiences but neither pack comes with the

With solar devices, we have the ability to harness the Sun’s massive amounts of energy and transform it into fuel for other devices—like some of the small-scale models students can build with the Solar Mechanics Kit from Thames & Kosmos! Keep reading to learn more about this kit, its parts, and why it’s great for introducing students to alternative energy.

As part of our Rising Resources blog series, we’re taking a look at some of the world’s most helpful resources for educators and telling you what you need to know. For this week’s blog, we checked out a resource called TeAch-nology. Essentially, TeAch-nology is a service that provides educators with thousands of resources that make everything easier.

Go-Lab (Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School) is an online sharing and authoring platform for educators and students to create, complete, and share labs, apps, and inquiry learning spaces (ILSs). The platform is designed for science teachers in both early and upper grades to incorporate innovative technical learning opportunities.