Explore projects in STEM Education in the K-12 context!
This page features projects specifically focusing on STEM Education in the K–12 context. Projects highlighted here explore innovative classroom practices, curriculum design, teacher professional development, and efforts to promote equity and inclusion in STEM fields. Whether integrating coding into elementary classrooms or designing inquiry-based science units for high schoolers, these projects support the development of critical thinking, collaboration, and curiosity—key traits for the next generation of innovators.
“Tallinn Digital Summit. Introduction for elementary school children to coding through a robotics programme” by EU2017EE Estonian Presidency/Rene Ämarik is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Collaborative Research: SBP: Increasing Social Equality in STEM through Children’s Structural ReasoningProject Abstract/Summary There are major gender and racial inequalities in who pursues Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers, and these disparities take root in early childhood. STEM inequalities are largely caused by structural factors, which are systemic societal barriers such as negative societal stereotypes and unequal educational opportunities. The present research addresses STEM inequalities by encouraging children to recognize structural constraints as a primary cause. A structural understanding may help children from disadvantaged groups realize that current inequalities do… Read more: Collaborative Research: SBP: Increasing Social Equality in STEM through Children’s Structural Reasoning
- Collaborative Research: The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of American Science EducationProject Abstract/Summary This award, which is this co-funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), program supports a collaborative research project the investigates the development, use, and impact of science multimedia for young children. It utilizes the history of The Magic School Bus (MSB), one of the most successful informal science initiatives of the past forty years, to study the relationship between education reform, children’s media, and public-private partnerships from the 1980s to the present. It compares how different media… Read more: Collaborative Research: The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of American Science Education
- Collaborative Research: The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of American Science EducationProject Abstract/Summary This award, which is this co-funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), program supports a collaborative research project the investigates the development, use, and impact of science multimedia for young children. It utilizes the history of The Magic School Bus (MSB), one of the most successful informal science initiatives of the past forty years, to study the relationship between education reform, children’s media, and public-private partnerships from the 1980s to the present. It compares how different media… Read more: Collaborative Research: The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of American Science Education
- SBE-UKRI: Learning to innovate: Development and diversityProject Abstract/Summary Humanity’s technological achievements are extraordinary, from the invention of basic tools to the creation of self-driving cars and smart devices. These advancements rely on the ability of humans to build on previous generations’ cumulative knowledge. Central to this is innovation, creating new tools or finding novel uses for old ones to solve problems. Yet, young children often struggle to invent tools, raising important questions about how innovation develops. This project explores the cognitive processes and educational experiences that… Read more: SBE-UKRI: Learning to innovate: Development and diversity