Ambitious Science Teaching
This web site provides a vision of ambitious science instruction for elementary, middle school and high school classrooms. Ambitious teaching deliberately aims to support students of all backgrounds to deeply...
California's Renewable Energy Problem
A great if not overly-detailed overview/case study of how renewables can affect grid reliability, including the promise and limitations of battery technology; Includes issues of baseload and incluson of policy, as...
City of STEM STEM At Home
A robust collection of Southern California-focused but nationally-relevant At-Home STEM resources for educators, parents, and students.
Crash Course Engineering (video series)
A series of dozens of videos on science and engineering concepts and applied issues, as well as dives into the history of science concepts and engineering breakthroughs. These videos are generally most useful at the...
Energy City Digital Lab
A robust game/simulation that models energy in many city simulations and requires players to balance energy needs, costs, environmental and social concerns as they seek to power their growing region. A fantastic way...
Equity in STEM Education: It’s All About Culture!
A fantastic article that highlights the necessity of incuding culturally-responsive approaches to STEM pedagogy. A great primer for understand culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies in a STEM context.
Idaho STEM Action Center
STEM AC is Idaho's statewide resource for everything STEM, including a wealth of programs, grants, oportunities, partnerships and more for Idaho's STEM educators. The mission of STEM AC is: Engineering innovative...
Learning in Place Classroom Storyline
A great learning framework for place- and field-based seasonal exploration, which is an essential aspect of understanding local resources and seasonality that affects energy generation sources and usage. Includes...
Mapped: How the US Generates Electricity
Interactive Map featuring sources of energy and consumption. Great tool for engaging students in understanding where their energy comes from locally and from what sources.
Marine Energy STEM Resources
Another great set of energy STEM resources from OpenEI, this one focusing on marine energy. Like the other Open EI resources on Hydropower , this is wealth of resources and information on marine energy basics,...
