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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Using a co-design model, researchers, practitioners alongside participants will develop a program for young women of color to learn STEM, Making, and entrepreneurship skills.
Latinx youth engage in design and making to address community needs as they develop positive identities as mathematics learners, doers and users.
Choreographing Science brings science researchers, youth, and choreographers together in informal community arts spaces to explore the scientists’ authentic research questions through choreographic and computational modeling.
Celebrating Diversity from Space is an educational program for middle school learners, highlighting Earth’s global diversity and fostering appreciation for local diversity.
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.
Embodied Physics is building resources for science learning environments where Black and Latino students can develop identities as people who practice and are engaged in scientific inquiry.
Teaching and Learning Science Practices in the Context of Complex Earth Systems
Strengthening the Cultural Relevance of the Head Start on Engineering Program for Spanish-Speaking Families
IDATA engages middle and high school students in designing software to make astronomy accessible to people with blindness or visual impairments.