STEM and STEAM help students build lifelong skills: critical thinking, collaboration, problem-solving, and more.
Boosting student engagement on World Math Day
Solutions that build lesson practice in a gaming environment have proven very effective in helping students build a love for learning
MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative
MIT has launched an initiative encouraging its students to produce short videos teaching basic concepts in science and engineering to K-12 students, the university reports.
Growing roots for more STEM
Local technology companies, concerned by a growing pool of jobs and an inadequate number of qualified employees, have increasingly focused on initiatives to improve what they call STEM…
YouTube videos make math ‘cool’ with doodle art
If you want to make a career from doodling you'd better be ready to take on Vi Hart, the Stony Brook University music graduate and self-titled recreational mathematician…
Why do women steer clear of engineering?
Whenever I read about a dearth of women in engineering, I am struck by the fact that many young women continue to resist the opportunities awaiting them in…
America’s struggle to make math fun
Pity poor math. In the American drive to boost science and math education, it's science that has all the kid-friendly sizzle: Robots and roller coasters, foaming chemical reactions,…
Astronaut underwear wins students a cool $5,000
An old NASA idea for keeping astronauts cool could finally become reality. U.S. high school students recently won $5,000 to make spacesuit undergarments using materials that can absorb…
Tennessee bill on teaching evolution, climate change to become law
Tennessee's Republican governor says he will let a bill become law effective April 20 that protects teachers who allow students in their classrooms to criticize evolution and other…
Students’ device taps swimming pool for power
Most American teens may see a pool as a chance for a swim or lazy summer relaxation, but one group of California high school students envisions swimming pools…
Watch: High school students build ‘Battlestar Galactica’ flight simulator
Possibly the most awesomely geeky thing in history: a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator, constructed in the garage by a bunch of Bay Area high school kids, funded…
Watch: 16-year-old creates working graphing calculator in video game
You may not think much of your everyday calculator, but the functions it performs in a fraction of a second are truly astounding, reports Tecca.
Students’ experiments to play out in space
Science experiments devised by teenage students, one from Egypt and two from the United States, will be conducted in space as part of a move by YouTube and…
Virtual school students meet for real-world science fair
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Alan Alda, Stony Brook University’s Center for Communicating Science aim to satisfy kids’ curiosity
As an 11-year-old, future actor Alan Alda asked his teacher a burning question: "What is a flame?" He found the response he received — "It's oxidation" — unsatisfying,…
Opinion: Why STEM is not enough (and we still need the humanities)
Countering the recent trend among educational reformers who insist that America needs to concentrate on practical subjects or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), actor John Lithgow recently…
Educators sound off on 3D in the classroom
As educators grapple with school reform, many agree that schools must update their practices and technology to better engage students and prepare them for 21st-century careers. Some educators…
Schools: Fresh scandal embroils US climate science debate
A fresh scandal over climate change has erupted in the United States after leaked documents appeared to show a right-wing funded campaign to influence how climate science is…
Teens learn robotics as factories lack skilled workers
At the Escuela Vieau School in downtown Milwaukee, seventh-grader Camila Garcia was building a model wind turbine in a class intended to spark interest in engineering, Reuters reports.
Detroit Public Schools students show STEM skills at White House Science Fair
President Barack Obama had the privilege to meet with several young scientists from Detroit Public Schools Tuesday at the second annual White House Science Fair, the Huffington Post…
Clark County schools see improvement with help from math software
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The best and worst states for science education
"Don't know much about science" may be a good description of many students in U.S. public schools, at least if you're swayed by a new report issued by…
Watch: Ten-year-old fifth grader makes shocking STEM discovery
Now that Clara Lazen of Kansas City, Mo. has been published in a major chemistry journal, she can set her sights on a new goal: graduating elementary school,…
Competition promotes digital gaming in the classroom
Focusing on an hourlong lecture about American history or algebra can seem daunting to high school students, who are used to splitting their attention between texting, Tweeting, and…
Pentagon Robot Program: Government to help Bay Area students build tech gadgets
With an eye toward revolutionizing how defense systems and vehicles are made, the Pentagon has tapped a team of Bay Area-based scientists, engineers and hackers to create a…
Inquiry-based approach to science a hit with students
John Scali’s class at Concord High School in Wilmington, Del., doesn’t look like your typical honors chemistry class.
Youth unlikely to pursue science, technology, engineering jobs, survey finds
Though President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address stressed the need for a competitive workforce, especially in more technical fields such as energy, young Americans see massive…
Wolfram Alpha launches free portal with tools for math instruction
Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of U.S. students’ math achievement, and now math teachers have a new resource, aligned with the Common Core standards and available free…
Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms
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Bulking up STEM comes with a price tag, educators say
It's the jumper cables to America's dead battery, they say, the lighter fluid to a cooling economy, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Dallas ISD to expand computer-based math program
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Nanotech creating big buzz among high school students
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Student innovators hack Kinect & Cancer to win $100,000 prizes
Science fair projects have become much cooler since the days of growing lima beans under different-colored light filters, LiveScience reports.
States can compete for $200 million in federal funds with STEM education focus
Beginning this week, nine states that were the runner-up finalists from last year's Race to the Top competition can apply for a portion of the $200 million Race…
‘Weightless’ U.S. teachers eye giant science leap
"Excited," "nervous," "terrified"--just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally, the AFP…
Digital badges could help measure 21st-century skills
How can schools accurately measure and categorize a student’s 21st-century skills? The MacArthur Foundation hopes to solve this problem with a new competition that calls on participants to…
Twenty states involved in changing science instruction
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Study: Minorities underrepresented in STEM jobs
Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks have over the past decade been underrepresented in U.S. jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in large part because…
Math research reveals early-learning needs
Numbers, counting, and low-level arithmetic are three basic competencies that are vital to later success in math, and students should have these key math skills in first grade…
How to make STEM education a success
What makes science programs at specialized science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) schools better than ordinary programs? A new report identifies key factors that contribute to effective STEM…
U.S. girls sweep Google kids science fair
