Teaching STEM
User Pathways
Click2Science User Pathways are designed to support personal learning and developing your skills in teaching STEM in out-of-school time programs.
Planning STEM Learning Experiences
Find strategies for selecting STEM activities, preparing yourself, gathering materials, setting up the space and managing the group.
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Basics of Teaching STEM
Learn the basics of STEM teaching – strategies for asking great questions, keeping groups focused and productive, making meaningful connections and assessing what was learned.
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Engaging Youth
Develop strategies for leading fun and engaging experiences – encouraging collaboration, connecting to prior experiences and giving youth control of their own learning.
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Building STEM Identites
Prepare young people for a STEM future – helping them use STEM practices, develop their identity and make their own connections to careers that use STEM.
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Tips for Using Meeting Guides
Meeting resources are brief, 15-30 minute, professional development experiences intended to introduce or reinforce STEM skills for staff. They can be part of a regularly scheduled staff meeting or conducted virtually.
Learn MoreTips for Using Training Guides
Training resources are designed for hands-on, interactive professional development experiences. These trainings engage staff with new ideas through experiences, discussions, and interaction.
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Click2Science PD Framework
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Resources
Skill: Modeling Science Practices
Getting the Most Out of NGSS: Using the Crosscutting Concepts
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Crosscutting Concepts provide us with a great way to help youth bridge science learning across various contexts.
Learn MoreSkill: Enabling Active STEM Learning
WHAT ABOUT CHALLENGES?
Participants will reflect on programmatic challenges in order to add more active learning opportunities to their program.
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Make it Active
Participants will review strategies to get youth actively doing STEM in order to add more active learning opportunities to their program.
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Developing Skills Needed for Active STEM Learning
Participants will reflect on their facilitation to learn to get youth actively engaged in STEM learning.
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Digging Deeper
Participants will expand an upcoming lesson to learn to engage youth in conceptual STEM learning.
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Developing and Expanding Youth Explanations
Participants will learn how to support youth to engage in science practices through an Exploring Soil Ecology activity.
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This is a Test
Participants will reflect on the Try and Try Again Video-Based Learning Module in order to emphasize the engineering design process.
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Re-Testing and Success
Participants will analyze a Video-Based Learning Module of staff supporting youth to re-test in order to help youth succeed through persistence.
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