Teacher & classroom resources
Curated teacher & classroom resources resources within engineering for curious kids and their grown-ups.
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DuPage Children’s Museum Educator Resources
DuPage Children’s Museum provides STEAM lesson plans, early-learning facilitation guides, field-trip social stories and sensory maps for educators.
JPL Education
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory STEM resources, lessons, projects, videos, and activities for K-12 learners and educators.
ORISE STEM Lesson Plans for K–12 Teachers
The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education provides a library of free K–12 STEM lesson plans, PDFs, activities, games and student opportunities.
NASA Teach: STEM Activities
NASA’s educator-facing STEM activity catalog from JPL, searchable by product type, subject, grade level, and topic across Earth, space, physical science, math, and technology.
micro:bit
A creative physical-computing platform with block coding, Python, classroom projects, guides, videos, and teacher courses.
The Tech Interactive
A family-friendly science and technology center with hands-on exhibits, experimental labs, design challenges, and youth engineering programs.
Tinkercad
A free browser-based Autodesk app for 3D design, electronics, and coding with hands-on projects and classroom curriculum.
NASA JPL K-12 Educator Resources
A searchable NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory library of K-12 lessons, projects, videos, collections, and teachable moments.
Sick Science!
Hands-on science experiments and STEM ideas from Steve Spangler for families, educators, and science enthusiasts.
Canadian Space Agency Crew-13 Activities
The Canadian Space Agency Crew-13 activities page gathers official space games and classroom or home activities, including Mission: Astronaut, Future of Food, K–12 ISS materials, Tomatosphere, astronaut cutouts, and live space links.
NASA eClips YouTube
NASA eClips videos connect students and educators with NASA missions, scientists, engineers, and classroom-ready STEM ideas.
Canadian Space Agency Toolkits for Youth and Educators
The Canadian Space Agency’s toolkit hub brings together official space learning materials, activities, games, videos, and reading resources on astronomy, the Moon, eclipses, engineering, rovers, climate, health science, and space history.
NSF Technology Educational Resources
Technology lessons, activities, videos, and web resources for classroom teachers, students, and families from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
NASA JPL Education Overview
An official overview of NASA JPL’s education mission, audiences, K-12 content, STEM resources, and family-facing space learning.
Challenger Center STEM at Home
A NASA and Challenger Center collection of adaptable science, technology, engineering, and math lessons for home learning, spanning Earth science, chemistry, forces, Mars, and the solar system.
ESA Back to School Student Space Projects
The European Space Agency’s teacher page presents student projects including Astro Pi, Moon Camp, and CanSat to inspire classroom space and engineering learning.
Smithsonian Engineering and Technology Teaching Resources
Smithsonian engineering and technology resources connect museum collections and science stories with design, invention, engineering, and technology learning.
ESA Education
The European Space Agency’s education portal shares space-science projects, classroom activities, student opportunities, and STEM stories connected to ESA missions.
COSI: Center of Science and Industry
COSI is a science center with hands-on exhibits, family learning, educator programs, and science experiences designed to make discovery active and approachable.
RHS Build a Mini Wormery
RHS Build a Mini Wormery is a free classroom activity with learning objectives, equipment, and step-by-step instructions for observing decomposition, soil life, composting, and sustainability.
TechEd4Kids
Free interactive science and math experiments, games, and lessons designed for learners in grades 6-12.
Space Foundation Discovery Center Resources for Educators
Space Foundation Discovery Center’s educator collection offers classroom and informal-learning resources for exploring space science, engineering, and space technology.
The Henry Ford Virtual Field Trips
The Henry Ford’s virtual field trips bring museum collections, innovation stories, and guided learning experiences to classrooms and families online.
FIRST Resource Library
FIRST’s resource library connects teams, families, educators, and young people with STEM, robotics, teamwork, and challenge resources across FIRST programs.
Wonder Workshop Coding Apps
Wonder Workshop’s official app collection supports coding with Dash and Cue robots through block-based puzzles, traceable paths, JavaScript and Python transitions, lesson plans, and creative projects.
EDC IDEAS Maker Program
Education Development Center’s IDEAS project is an inventing, designing, and engineering maker program for students and informal STEM learning.
Giving STEAM to Learning Through Play
National Children’s Museum’s official initiative page describes a multi-year effort to connect classrooms, museums, and families through playful early-childhood STEAM learning and planned free resources.
Cooper Hewitt Learning Resources
Cooper Hewitt’s learning-resources hub brings together design activities, educator materials, and ways to explore creative problem solving through objects and making.
FIRST Free Education Resources
FIRST’s free education resources provide STEM, robotics, design, and problem-solving activities for learners, educators, and families.
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Virtual Field Trips
PreK–12 virtual programs bring trolley history, electricity, technology, engineering, and Pennsylvania history to classrooms in 30–60 minute sessions aligned with Pennsylvania Core Standards.
RoboNinja
RoboNinja is a free student-built guide to competitive robotics, with self-paced lessons in building, CAD, programming, engineering notebooks, and interactive simulations.
SAM LMS
SAM LMS is a South African early-years coding and physical-computing platform using local stories, hands-on projects, and multilingual support for young learners.