STEM RESOURCES

For Providers

STEMfinity

Free resources including grant writing resources as well as STEM kits for sale. Head to their Boise office to try out a variety of STEM

Idaho National Laboratory

INL’s K-12 STEM Initiative provides opportunities for students as well as educators, including informal educators.

Idaho STEM Action Center

Find STEM events and competitions near you, attend professional development opportunities, apply for grants.

Idaho Public Television

IPTV’s Science Trek is designed for elementary students. Shows and companion materials for 90+ topics are available.

iGameMom

This site contains hundreds of STEM activities, many of which are free, for students of all ages.

PhET

PhET provides fun, free, interactive research-based science and mathematic simulations.

Intel Education

Intel provides STEM curriculum, competitions, and online resources to encourage students’ interest and participation.

Go-Lab

The Go-Lab Portal supports inquiry learning through personalized scientific experiments with online labs and supportive inquiry learning apps.

Hippo Campus

Free, core academic website that delivers rich videos, animations, and simulations to designed for middle school, high school, and college students.

How To Smile

Search over 3,500 science and math activities. All activities are available to anyone, free of charge.

Science Buddies

Browse this library of free, high-quality STEM resources for students, parents, and teachers. There are standards-aligned lesson plans, hands-on activities, more than 1,200 project ideas,

Eduporium

This online store sells over 1,000 STEM products. They offer educational discounts on most of the items you’ll see in the store.

Data Science Programs

Data Science Education Guides that include lists of scholarships, comprehensive degree program data, licensing & certification info by state, and career profiles for the industry.

ACRES

Afterschool coaching for reflective educators in STEM professional learning modules

Junior Handyman’s Toolkit: Classroom Projects, Essentials and Checklists

This site brings together multiple ideas on how to work with your hands to build and create things. Check it out!

Siemens STEM Day

This is a K-12 STEM program that offers an extensive library of free, standards-aligned activities that bring STEM to life inside and outside the classroom.

Girls Get STEM

This program, from Girls Scouts and Discovery Education, provides standards-aligned curriculum that aims to address gender equity in STEM education across the country through a

Science at Home

3M’s Science at Home makes e-learning fun with engaging and educational DIY science experiments for children ages 6-12.

My Physics Lab

Find physics simulations animating in real time and interact with them by dragging objects or changing parameters such as gravity.

The Physics Classroom

This site features a variety of sections intended to support both teachers and students in the task of learning and teaching physics.

STEM Sports

This site contains STEM resources for basketball, football, soccer, and volleyball.

Project Learning Tree

Idaho’s Project Learning Tree offers curriculum and training to educators, both formal and informal, on environmental education.

Project WILD!

Project WILD assists learners in the development of awareness, and knowledge for, wildlife and the environment.

Project WET

Idaho’s Project WET develops and delivers the world’s best water education resources.

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