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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The project is developing an interdisciplinary graduate program addressing issues of climate related risk and resilience planning and decision-making in the southeast US.
This project lays the groundwork for community conversations about the design and deployment of strategies for innovative, biotech solutions that mitigate the range of climate change impacts–increasing the likelihood of such solutions to be widely adopted.
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.
Using augmented reality tools to help students with executive function issues attend to STEM related tasks.
Empowering middle school teachers to integrate biomimicry into STEM units, fostering authentic engagement by aligning with students’ assets, needs, and interests.
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.
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.
Extreme climate impacts are increasing, and youth eco-anxiety is rising, while teachers who address climate change and its inequitable impacts often work in isolation. To address this need, this project will host annual, expenses-paid Climate Equity Institutes at the Schoodic Institute campus for high school teachers. Participants will explore equitable pedagogy, hear talks on the global and psychological impacts of climate change, and engage in guided field trips and independent inquiry.
A design-based research project studying how best to integrate data practices into high school science, particularly biology.