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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This project looks for large scale impacts of such a widespread, sustained-over-time experience on students, teachers, schools and communities.
Investigators from TERC, Landmark College, and MIT collaborated to examine the relationships among patterns of play in a digital game (“Impulse”), student attention (measured from eye- and head-tracking devices); and student learning about Newton’s first and second laws.
Robots in Science supports middle school physical science teachers to develop and implement integrated robotics units in their classrooms.
The Sound Travels project is investigating how sounds around us (soundscapes) impact people and their learning outside school in spaces like parks, zoos, and science centers.
This project is developing a prototype Signing Bioscience Dictionary that will include approximately 1,500 terms routinely used in undergraduate biology courses.
Talk Science PD is a blend of web-based study, opportunities to try ideas in the classroom, and face-to-face study group meetings designed to help teachers increase the effectiveness of classroom science discussions.
Science curricula for grades 3-5 and professional development aligned with the NRC Science Framework.
Professional development is comprised of Implementation Workshops that introduce teachers to the Inquiry Project curriculum and embedded assessment opportunities.
For UniVRsal Access, EdGE is co-designing a Virtual Reality (VR) STEM mystery game with learners with autism, embedding supports for sensory, attention, and social issues, and researching how VR can be used to increase access and broaden participation in STEM learning.
Empowering Teachers Through VideoReView is a NSF funded research and development project to enhance elementary science teachers’ attention to students’ science thinking.