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 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.
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.
Through a Researcher Practitioner Partnership (RPP) between Braintree Public Schools and EdGE, the team is building CodePlay—a strong foundation of teachers and suite of materials for the teaching and learning of CT—in upper elementary and middle schools across Braintree MA, considering a broad audience of diverse learners with cognitive differences.
A design-based research project studying how best to integrate data practices into high school science, particularly biology.
Engaging Latinx parents as research partners, to leverage informal family engineering activities that boost preschoolers’ executive function skills.
EdGE is a team of educators, designers, and researchers who design and study digital games and environments to learn how to engage ALL learners in STEM, especially those who are “falling through the cracks”.
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.
The project studies learning gains and attitudinal changes among students. TERC’s evaluation works with faculty to explore implementation, usability, and the potential for sustainability and spread.