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Explore ways to use STEM lessons and approaches to help students practice cross-disciplinary thinking and build skills in science, technology, engineering, and math.

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STEM Is Jambalaya: Internalize this food metaphor to shift into a STEM mindset. (Edutopia, 2014)

How to Get Your School Ready for STEM This Year: Discover a few straightforward tips for preparing your school to launch STEM learning that don't require access to large amounts of funding. (KQED's MindShift, 2013)

10 Innovative Ways to Bring STEM to Schools: Explore ideas for bringing STEM learning into schools, including teacher research and development teams, inviting guest scientists, organizing clubs, and convening parent focus groups. (KQED's MindShift 2014)

Strategies for Engaging Students in STEM Learning

How to Design Right-Sized Challenges: Consider takeaways from an engineering design competition for how to conceptualize design challenges as relevant to real life, challenging, and achievable for diverse learners. (Edutopia, 2014)

Ownership and Agency Will Propel STEM Learning: Review evidence that the best way forward in STEM learning is by letting students lead. (Edutopia, 2014)

STEM and Writing: See how inviting guest speakers from STEM fields to the classroom can inspire student imaginations. (Edutopia, 2014)

Using Football Science to Tackle STEM Education: Learn how to use topics that interest students to get across potentially challenging or intimidating STEM concepts. (Edutopia, 2013)

Learning the Physics of Skateboarding Engages Kids in Science: Watch a video about an educator known as "Dr. Skateboard," and see how he teaches students about speed, velocity, and momentum at the local skate park. (Edutopia, 2014)

STEMbite: An Experiment in Teaching With Google Glass: Watch first-person video lessons -- including a broadcast from one teacher's kitchen exploring crazy science found in the refrigerator -- and see how video lessons can motivate and inspire students in STEM. (Edutopia, 2013)

Engaging Students in the STEM Classroom Through Making: Find out how to use the maker movement to engage STEM students in new ways. (Edutopia, 2012)

STEM Projects, Lessons, and Models

Pulling Underrepresented Youth Into STEM

Quick, Draw a Scientist: Learn how to address scientist stereotypes in the minds of students. (Edutopia, 2015)

Why Students Leave STEM: Discover why some students choose to leave STEM, and learn how strategies like mentors and role models can help. (Edutopia, 2014)

Girls Against the World, Scientifically Speaking: Dig into questions and explore suggestions for how STEM education can be made more relevant for girls. (Edutopia, 2015)

Kinesthetic Learning: Moving Toward a New Model for Education: Find out how one afterschool program is pairing kinesthetic learning and mathematics to break through barriers of self-image and perceived limitations. (Edutopia, 2014)

5 Ways to Get Girls Into STEM: Explore strategies to help capture young girls' interest in STEM subjects and career paths. (Edutopia, 2013)

Five-Minute Film Festival: 8 Videos to Encourage Girls in STEM: Watch a video playlist to ignite your imagination about what girls can do in science, technology, engineering, and math. Be sure to take a look at the tip sheets and articles at the bottom of the page. (Edutopia, 2014)

STEM Beyond School Walls

Downloads and Examples From Schools That Work

Edutopia's flagship series highlights practices and case studies from K-12 schools and districts that are improving the way students learn. Below, find downloads used by practitioners at a featured school, and dive into real-world examples of STEM learning.

Bridges Project Design Document: Download a PDF document that describes how students learn about the math and engineering concepts necessary to construct bridges and explore the symbolic meaning of bridges in literature, history, and social studies.

Communications Project Design Document: Download a PDF document that describes how students address learning goals across multiple subjects through design and construction of a sound system and the writing of original music.

Rockets and Robots Project Design Document: Download a PDF document that describes how students build robots and construct rockets to complete a variety of space-inspired missions and reach reach learning goals in various content areas.

Blank Project Design Document: Download a blank PDF template used to design and plan capstone projects at Mc2STEM.

Sample Fab Lab Projects: Download a PDF document with photos of several projects that were done in the Mc2STEM Fab Lab.

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When I was Director of Instructional Technology, I had the opportunity to visit high school teachers' classrooms. Besides visiting the Technology Applications teachers, I would also visit content area teachers engaging in various technology initiatives. It always amazed me how much high school students can do with the proper structure and guidance. If you happen to be one of those teachers who have a great rapport with your students and you are interested in providing a STEM focus in your classroom, this post is for you. Even if you are not a science, technology, engineering, or technology teacher, you can still use STEM resources as a context for increasing motivation and adding relevance, especially for those students who are not naturally enamored with your particular content area!

STEM Resources and Activities

Smoking Dragons

While doing activities with fire is very alluring, it's probably not the safest with high school students. We definitely don't want to encourage any future budding pyromaniacs. But playing with dry ice can be equally satisfying and interesting. For smoking dragons, students make a dragon's head from a plastic cup. The teacher adds a small amount of dry ice to each dragon to get the smoke going. Many other experiments can be done with dry ice that focus on carbon dioxide, freezing/melting, etc. And for more learning fun, check out how to make smoke bubbles.

Exploring Mummification with Hot Dogs

Once you get beyond the ick factor, exploring mummification with hot dogs is pretty interesting. For this experiment, you'll be burying a meat hot dog in baking soda and examining it after a week. Besides other beneficial properties of baking soda, it is used for its desiccating (drying out) abilities for this experiment. This is an easy activity to expand and learn how different hot dogs fare as mummy dogs. Baking soda has also been used to dry out flowers for arrangements and crafts.

Graph Art: Illustrating Data

GoScienceKids offers a fun STEAM project to illustrate data. This could be done with younger students if less emphasis was placed on the background and implications of the data. To allow students to locate graphs related to their interests, have them go to Google Trends and enter a search term or a topic. Google will share a graph showing how the term or topic has trended over time. You can also see where most people are located who are searching that topic. Students can also see possible related topics to explore. The data can be exported or embedded, but I would recommend that the students take a screenshot of the graph and illustrate it online. For example, they could accomplish this with a tool such as Google Drawings. Below is my illustrated graph on raising chickens. Who doesn't want to raise cute, feathery birds that can give you eggs for breakfast?!

Questions I'd ask my students to research include:

Is the graph seemingly random, somewhat cyclical, or very cyclical? Why?

Based on this graph, what do you predict the next 12 months might look like?

Choose a single peak and explain what was happening in current events at the time that might have caused the spike.

Choose a single low point and explain what was happening in current events at the time that might have caused the drop.

What other trending searches might have a similar graph?

How can you influence the data to cause a peak? Cause a significant drop?

Exploring the Fibonacci Sequence

When I was in college, I was introduced to the Fibonacci sequence. Wow! It blew my mind and made me stop and consider if I wanted to really be a botanist. Mathematical, predictable, artistic- it is an amazing expression in the natural world. Have students explore the Fibonacci sequence in nature. Students then focus on phyllotaxis - the arrangement of leaves around a stem. Have them start a journal and identify various plants along with their phyllotaxis. Then have students compare the data they collect. NOTE: Not all plants follow the Fibonacci sequence.

Finding High School STEM Resources Online

Pinterest has tons of resources for high school STEM. It may take you a while to weed through them to find ones that you want to do in your classroom. You might consider tweaking the search to narrow it down to focus on your content area. As you look through the boards, don't ignore a board even if it has fewer pins. It might actually have more gold nuggets for you and less fluff!

YouTube Playlists can provide many excellent videos that are already curated. Don't ignore the videos that may extend to elementary school. Some of those may be great activities that just need more complex concepts as the focus!

Facebook has several high school STEM groups, as well as groups that include high school level activities. As you look through these to consider which you might join, be sure to check how many posts there are per day. This will give you a clue as to how active the group is. At the end of the group description, it will say how many typical posts per day, week, or year. You may also tweak the search to find your specific content area (be sure to add STEM after it when you search).

Twitter offers some ideas as well, though you might have to hone your hashtag skills to get the right combination. Clicking on the Twitter link will take you to the latest tweets for high school STEM activities. Be sure to check out what photos and videos have also been tweeted.

TikTok, like Twitter, offers a wide variety of content, some of which is not appropriate for students. My experience is that about half the search results using #STEM are irrelevant. If you are pressed for time, don't make this your first option for searching. And when you do find some great content, check to see if the makers are on Instagram, YouTube, or another site for content sharing.

Searching Google for STEM Resources

You can definitely search Google for high school STEM resources, but you will probably get too much clutter in your search results- like curriculum to purchase or activities based on specific equipment- which you might not have. Here are a few tips to help you use the perfect search query to get the best results:

Define Results to Universities

Unless you want to buy activities and resources for your students, consider limiting the search results to just educational entities and universities and colleges. Your search query should look something like this. Click here to go to these results.

Exclude Specific Sites from Your Results

If you find that a particular site is cluttering your search results, you can remove it by using the -site function. You can do this multiple times if you add a -site:nameofsite.org for each site. Here is an example that excludes Teachers Pay Teachers from the search results. Click here to go to these results.

What Is Your Favorite?

After looking through and exploring the various resources, hopefully you found a few gold nuggets that you can use. Jump into the comments and share with us what groups and sites you think would be a good addition to the list. We'd love to hear from you.

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Fun STEM Resources for High School Learners

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Lists about: Popsugar 2020 - Books about or by Women in STEM, Romance Novels with STEM Heroines, [ATY 2022] Women in STEM, Women in Science, Best STEAM C...

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Children are natural-born scientists-continually manipulating their physical environments and observing the results, appreciating natural phenomena that adults rush past, and spontaneously engaging in play that (without their realizing it) tests scientific principles. Unfortunately, by the time young people reach high school, their interests in STEM classes and careers-as well as self-confidence in their skills-have often declined. However, there has never been a better time for locating YA nonfiction that can revive an interest in these important and endlessly exciting subjects, providing readers with inspiring role models, connecting STEM topics with relevant contemporary issues, and supplementing school curricula.

Science and the Skeptic: Discerning Fact From Fiction by Marc Zimmer (Twenty-First Century/Lerner, Feb. 1): Science illiteracy is rampant in social media, political discourse, and even journalism, making this volume critically important for figuring out which sources are trustworthy and how to make sense of a barrage of conflicting information.

Become an App Inventor: Your Guide to Designing, Building, and Sharing Apps by Karen Lang, Selim Tezel, MIT App Inventor Project, and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MITeen Press/Candlewick, Feb. 8): Stepping into the world of programming opens up exciting avenues for young people to apply technology to the pursuit of their passions. This manual clearly and systematically takes teens through projects of increasing complexity.

Where Have All the Birds Gone?: Nature in Crisis by Rebecca E. Hirsch (Twenty-First Century/Lerner, March 1): This concise and eloquent book persuasively situates birds as linchpins in the natural world whose survival is both critical to the well-being of humans and other species and a barometer of broader threats.

Glowing Bunnies!?: Why We're Making Hybrids, Chimeras, and Clones by Jeff Campbell (Zest Books, April 3): This entertaining, accessible read offers an overview of the moral quandaries scientists face as they make decisions about the animal world in terms of genetic technology and its uses in husbandry, conservation, and related fields.

The Code Breaker-Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race To Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson with Sarah Durand (Simon & Schuster, April 26): The more we learn about and are able to manipulate our genes, the greater the ethical dilemmas we face. This sophisticated work encourages readers, alongside noted scientists, to grapple with challenging questions.

Attention Hijacked: Using Mindfulness To Reclaim Your Brain From Tech by Erica B. Marcus, illustrated by Athena Currier (Zest Books, May 3): Technology is nearly inescapable, but conversations about its impact can be simplistic and alarmist; this book presents a balanced approach to help readers maximize its benefits, better understand its design, and minimize ill effects.

Save the People!: Halting Human Extinction by Stacy McAnulty, illustrated by Nicole Miles (Little, Brown, May 10): This remarkable book discusses the terrifying topic of challenges to life on Earth in ways that help readers feel informed, encouraged, and empowered to do what they can to have a positive impact.

Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer, illustrated by Jules Zuckerberg (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, May 24): As debates about human sexuality heat up, with confusion and misinformation about the science abounding, this fascinating work sheds valuable light on the sexual behavior of nonhuman animals, reframing conceptions of what is "natural."

Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry by Mary Kenney, illustrated by Salini Perera (Running Press Kids, July 19): Misogyny in the gaming world is no secret; this inspiring volume offers additional narratives-short biographies of women who have built successful, influential careers in an industry in which more diverse voices are desperately needed.
Laura Simeon is a young readers' editor.

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9 Great STEM Titles for Curious Teens | Kirkus Reviews

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Children are natural-born scientists-continually manipulating their physical environments and observing the results, appreciating natural phenomena that adults rush past, and spontaneously engaging in play that (without their realizing it) tests scientific principles. Unfortunately, by the time young people reach high school, their interests in STEM classes and careers-as well as self-confidence in their skills-have often declined.

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Children are natural-born scientists-continually manipulating their physical environments and observing the results, appreciating natural phenomena that adults rush past, and spontaneously engaging in play that (without their realizing it) tests scientific principles. Unfortunately, by the time young people reach high school, their interests in STEM classes and careers-as well as self-confidence in their skills-have often declined. However, there has never been a better time for locating YA nonfiction that can revive an interest in these important and endlessly exciting subjects, providing readers with inspiring role models, connecting STEM topics with relevant contemporary issues, and supplementing school curricula.

Science and the Skeptic: Discerning Fact From Fiction by Marc Zimmer (Twenty-First Century/Lerner, Feb. 1): Science illiteracy is rampant in social media, political discourse, and even journalism, making this volume critically important for figuring out which sources are trustworthy and how to make sense of a barrage of conflicting information.

Become an App Inventor: Your Guide to Designing, Building, and Sharing Apps by Karen Lang, Selim Tezel, MIT App Inventor Project, and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MITeen Press/Candlewick, Feb. 8): Stepping into the world of programming opens up exciting avenues for young people to apply technology to the pursuit of their passions. This manual clearly and systematically takes teens through projects of increasing complexity.

Where Have All the Birds Gone?: Nature in Crisis by Rebecca E. Hirsch (Twenty-First Century/Lerner, March 1): This concise and eloquent book persuasively situates birds as linchpins in the natural world whose survival is both critical to the well-being of humans and other species and a barometer of broader threats.

Glowing Bunnies!?: Why We're Making Hybrids, Chimeras, and Clones by Jeff Campbell (Zest Books, April 3): This entertaining, accessible read offers an overview of the moral quandaries scientists face as they make decisions about the animal world in terms of genetic technology and its uses in husbandry, conservation, and related fields.

The Code Breaker-Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race To Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson with Sarah Durand (Simon & Schuster, April 26): The more we learn about and are able to manipulate our genes, the greater the ethical dilemmas we face. This sophisticated work encourages readers, alongside noted scientists, to grapple with challenging questions.

Attention Hijacked: Using Mindfulness To Reclaim Your Brain From Tech by Erica B. Marcus, illustrated by Athena Currier (Zest Books, May 3): Technology is nearly inescapable, but conversations about its impact can be simplistic and alarmist; this book presents a balanced approach to help readers maximize its benefits, better understand its design, and minimize ill effects.

Save the People!: Halting Human Extinction by Stacy McAnulty, illustrated by Nicole Miles (Little, Brown, May 10): This remarkable book discusses the terrifying topic of challenges to life on Earth in ways that help readers feel informed, encouraged, and empowered to do what they can to have a positive impact.

Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer, illustrated by Jules Zuckerberg (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, May 24): As debates about human sexuality heat up, with confusion and misinformation about the science abounding, this fascinating work sheds valuable light on the sexual behavior of nonhuman animals, reframing conceptions of what is "natural."

Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry by Mary Kenney, illustrated by Salini Perera (Running Press Kids, July 19): Misogyny in the gaming world is no secret; this inspiring volume offers additional narratives-short biographies of women who have built successful, influential careers in an industry in which more diverse voices are desperately needed.
Laura Simeon is a young readers' editor.

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Children are natural-born scientists-continually manipulating their physical environments and observing the results, appreciating natural phenomena that adults rush past, and spontaneously engaging in play that (without their realizing it) tests scientific principles. Unfortunately, by the time young people reach high school, their interests in STEM classes and careers-as well as self-confidence in their skills-have often declined.

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Middle school is such an exciting time for exploration! Check out the following middle school STEM projects and pick which ones you want to try first with your students.

Simply click the title of each lesson in the list to get the full lesson plan for these great STEM challenges that align with lessons for middle school science, technology, engineering, and math objectives.

If you're looking to receive STEM challenges monthly, check out our article about teenagers' top STEM subscription boxes.

STEM Activities for Middle School Students

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Students explore pollen, dust, and other particulates in the air with their created "pollution detectors" placed in various spots and compare the captured air particles from the different locations. They will hypothesize what causes the differences and explain why engineers look at the particulate matter when they observe air quality.

With various material options, students design bridges with enough structural integrity to hold 100 pennies for 30 seconds without collapse. Review engineering concepts such as load and force with your classes before they get started.

In pairs, students design, build and test their model vehicles of dry pasta and hot glue, with the goal of rolling along a ramp and coasting as far as possible. This STEM activity focuses on using somewhat challenging materials in the best ways possible.

This earth science activity first calls for familiarity with US Geological Survey quadrangle maps. Working within set guideline requirements, students then use these maps to design a good route for a new recreational trail.

Students apply an understanding of genetics in an analysis of sea creature genotypes that live in SpongeBob SquarePants' neighborhood. They predict traits of offspring with the use of Punnett squares.

Help your students review the engineering design process. They will then research, model, test and evaluate wristwatches for individuals with visual impairments as an exercise in applying engineering skills in the areas of bioengineering and biomedical engineering.

Teachers collect shoe size data from the class. As a group, they use the data to determine the mean, median, and mode. Students then use that information to make inferences about average shoe size and broader populations. This activity provides a review of how to calculate mean, median, and mode, along with methods to make inferences based on the sample.

Following a storyline, task your students with completing various STEM challenges, such as engineering straw rockets, designing landing devices, and completing a Coke and Mentos experiment as part of a Mars emergency. Teamwork, engineering design, and the use of science topics in real life are all addressed.

Using nutritional information labels from various packaged foods, students will organize and describe that info to show the data in a box-and-whisker plot, bar graph, and pie chart. This activity touches on both math and science standards.

Teams of students employ the engineering design process to use tape and plastic tubing to create heart valve models. For this activity, the class reviews the engineering design process and the workings of a one-way valve.

Students review the formula for velocity. Using drag and drop programming, they code the speed traps to measure the distance between the sensors and time it takes the marble to travel between them. They design the course, write the code, convert units, evaluate, and make changes as needed.

Students imagine inheriting and spending 1 million dollars with specific guidelines of how they may use that money. They research on the internet, record all purchases, learn to write checks, and track all their spending, which reinforces various mathematical concepts.

Review the equations for torque and inertia with students. By removing lights (weight) from spinners, they can explore how the amount of time the device will continue spinning is affected by the mass.

Working in groups, students describe the current weather and predict future conditions by observing cloud formations. They design backyard weather stations that could gather data for actual forecasting. Technologies for forecasting would be explored, along with weather basics.

Review compression and tension in structure stability with your class. Students use math and engineering concepts to design and build structures with long, dry spaghetti and marshmallows, to find which ones can withstand the largest amount of load.

With choices from limited materials, students discover how to filter pollutants from dirty water. Teachers may use this challenge activity along with earth science units about water pollution or those concerning local lakes.

Serving as agricultural engineers, students explore the effectiveness of this sustainable weed control technique that uses organic waste instead of poisons. By using seed starter pots, they plant "weeds" and test the use of organic matter, like oatmeal, to see if it kills the weeds, assessing the impact of products and systems.

In pairs, students use real data to assess the possible use of solar or wind power generation at their school. Using science, math, and engineering concepts, they explore the differences between these two methods, use maps for an analysis of potential, and look at factors related to the feasibility of renewable energy at their location.

Have your students design and construct models of an ocean with islands to observe and document how currents driven by winds move the water and interact with the land. Through this challenge project, they will explore circulation patterns, the Coriolis effect, and the transfer of heat from the global ocean convection cycle.

Students bring in their favorite candy bar wrappers, choose a scale factor (larger than 5), and enlarge their wrappers to that scale in a drawing on grid paper. This is a fun way to have kids use the math concept of scale factor. They can then color and display their finished projects!

How to Make the Most of These Middle School STEM Projects

Rather you do these STEM projects at home or in the classroom, be sure to ask discussion questions throughout the activity.

We rounded up these projects specifically because they align with learning objectives and lessons for 6th to 8th-grade students. Ask how this applies to what they're currently learning in class? What did the project demonstrate?

Let us know in the comments what your favorite Middle School STEM projects! We'd love to hear them.

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Discovery Education Experience, our dynamic K-12 learning platform, offers over 200,000 standards-aligned resources, high-quality content, and professional learning strategies to support teachers and encourage students to dive deeper into STEM. Anytime, anywhere accessibility and curated collections of STEM-themed content-such as Outrageous Acts of Science, STEM Careers, Street Science, and Girls Get STEM-make learning both relevant and exciting while helping educators engage all students in STEM, in and out of the classroom.

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Science Buddies' middle school science projects are the perfect way for middle school students to have fun exploring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Our middle school projects are written and tested by scientists and are specifically created for use by students in the middle school grades. Students can choose to follow the science experiment as written or put their own spin on the project.

For a personalized list of science projects, middle schoolers can use the Science Buddies Topic Selection Wizard. The wizard asks students to respond to a series of simple statements and then uses their answers to recommend age-appropriate projects that fit their interests.

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Bespectacled scientists of yore would carry around hefty field guides, made up of hundreds of pages of text and photos. But these days, smartphone owners have a lighter option: an app called Project Noah, which aims to help people identify plants and animals as well as collect data from "citizen scientists" about where certain species are located.

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Based on a true story of two young ladies who pursued their dream through the entrepreneurship process and founded Chirps. This company creates sustainable food products from cricket flour.

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Best STEM Books is a joint project of the American Society for Engineering Education , the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association , the National Science Teachers Association , the Society of Elementary Presidential Awardees , and the Children's Book Council. since 2017 This list of books aims to provide recommendations to educators, librarians, parents, and guardians for the best children's books with STEM content.

Reviewers appointed by NSTA, ITEEA, SEPA, and ASEE read and evaluate the submitted books. Their selections are published in a yearly list appearing in NSTA Reports and ITEEA's Children's Technology and Engineering magazine and are promoted through membership networks and at partner conferences.

WHAT IS STEM? STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) is an integrated and creative approach to discovering and applying knowledge about our world to solve problems that utilize one, or more of the content areas. Trade books that deliver background and model the practices of STEM provide context and inspiration to readers.

The selection committee will evaluate submission based on its adherence to the following criteria:

Models innovation

Illustrates authentic problems

Assimilates new ideas

Invites divergent thinking

Explores multiple solutions

Integrates STEM disciplines

Shows progressive change or improvement

Content accuracy-appropriate to age and audience

WINNING TITLES (Annotated Lists)

View more annotated lists on NSTA's website.

Publishers: Learn more about submitting titles to this list . Email Jena.Groshek@cbcbooks.org with questions.

More lists: Children's Choices, Young Adults' Choices, Notable Social Studies Trade Books, Outstanding Science Trade Books, Building a Home Library, Reading Beyond, and More Curated Lists collaborations.

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For more great STEM book selections, check out STEM Read. Many of their book picks (like the ones we have asterisks (*) by above) include videos from the author, extension activities, and free related, standard-aligned lessons for educators like this one for Andrea Beaty's Rosie Revere Engineer!

For young children, there is also a STEM book monthly subscription box called STEM Reads. Each month's box has a theme and includes at least two STEM books, notes from the author, related activities, and other goodies. The Astronaut Academy box is out of this world!

Hope this fuels your desire to get reading about STEM!

If you have a favorite STEM book not listed here, let us know!
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Top 35 Amazing STEM Books for Kids - Vivify STEM

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Summer is the perfect time to read books for your enjoyment, but that doesn't mean the books you read should not have educational value. Books can provide new perspectives or set new aspirations! Harness the possibilities of the world books open to readers by indulging in STEM books.