Our Legacy of Impactful Projects
At TERC, we take pride in our ongoing commitment to shaping the STEM education landscape through innovative projects and groundbreaking research. Delve into our archives to discover the stories, methodologies, and outcomes of these impactful projects. Even though they may no longer be actively running, the knowledge and insights gained from these initiatives continue to shape the future of STEM education.
The project is developing an interdisciplinary graduate program addressing issues of climate related risk and resilience planning and decision-making in the southeast US.
Together with Greensboro NC community partners, researchers from TERC and makers from the Forge, a Greensboro-based makerspace, developed ways for makerspaces to offer more opportunities to young women.
Latinx youth engaged in design and making to address community needs as they developed positive identities as mathematics learners, doers and users.
This project expanded and disseminated the Project AIM professional development program that was designed to help teachers recognize, analyze, and aspire to implement high quality discourse in the mathematics classroom.
Choreographing Science brought science researchers, youth, and choreographers together in informal community arts spaces to explore the scientists’ authentic research questions through choreographic and computational modeling.
A research project that learned from Spanish-speaking parents of pre-K children, about how they engage in and access the Aprendiendo Math Talk training via the use of videos and social media.
The ACCT project is developing, implementing, and studying a professional development model for improving chemistry teachers’ formative assessment practices to foster teaching focused on chemical thinking.
The project studies the development of the science assessment practices of teachers in high-needs districts.
The Building Coherence project aims to support development of pre-service elementary teachers’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions for enacting ambitious and equitable STEM instruction, by fostering greater coherence among STEM content and pedagogical teacher preparation opportunities.
Celebrating Diversity from Space is an educational program for middle school learners, highlighting Earth’s global diversity and fostering appreciation for local diversity.