Our projects and research shape the STEM education field by introducing innovative curricula and improving student access to STEM.
We support more than 60 active projects every year, and our high-quality, innovative research is based on the understanding that for STEM, real-world application matters. We inspire, motivate, and create life-long learners by helping students connect what they are taught in the classroom to the world around them.
These projects and our research are designed to encompass a wide range of subjects and disciplines within STEM education and teaching methods to expand accessibility for all eager minds.
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Empowering middle school teachers to integrate biomimicry into STEM units, fostering authentic engagement by aligning with students’ assets, needs, and interests.
The Center for Equitable Family STEM Learning at TERC explores the intersection of equity, STEM education, and family learning. Our definitions of each of these anchoring concepts continue to evolve through our collaborations with families and community partners.and communities.
Engaging Latinx parents as research partners, to leverage informal family engineering activities that boost preschoolers’ executive function skills.
Teaching and Learning Science Practices in the Context of Complex Earth Systems
The Focus on Energy Summer Workshop empowers elementary teachers to incorporate foundational energy ideas accurately and effectively in their own curriculum.
Strengthening the Cultural Relevance of the Head Start on Engineering Program for Spanish-Speaking Families
The TERC Life Sciences Group, a research and development program, is founded on the conviction that students can and should experience the life sciences as dynamic fields of inquiry whose diversity reflects the immense diversity of living systems.
MIaFS addresses a largely under-studied population, in this case Faculty of Color in STEM (FCS) who are also Gender and Sexual Minorities (GSM), through the use of methods rarely used in STEM education research, namely participant-generated Arts-Informed Research (AIR).
NSP is a longitudinal study on the experiences of Native STEM students, faculty, and professionals and the barriers and supports they encounter in STEM.
Robots in Science supports middle school physical science teachers to develop and implement integrated robotics units in their classrooms.