STEM makes sense.
We make it a snap!
We offer ready-to-go units, full year curriculum, and custom implementations.
We'll match your needs and budget. We'll exceed your expectations.
STEM is not just science or technology or math or engineering. STEM is a truly integrated approach to these studies. Done right, STEM engages students and increases motivation with project-based learning, encourages students to solve authentic problems, and asks them to work with others to build real solutions.
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Wherever you are with STEM, we can help
Learning.com provides ready-to-go curriculum to address specific instructional needs, custom implementations for those ready (or needing more support!) to take a deeper dive into STEM, and the Learning.com marketplace for those who simply need to supplement their existing programs with web-based content from leading STEM publishers.
Our ready-to-go curriculum provides foundational content and supplementary instructional materials to help you quickly build an engaging STEM program for 21st century learners.
Middle School STEM
Middle School STEM is the easiest way to provide your middle school students with an engaging, effective STEM education. It delivers hands on projects, career themed units, and an integrated approach to building science, technology, engineering and math knowledge and skills. Middle School STEM can add rigor to traditional education, introduce STEM to students and teachers, or round out existing STEM experiences. Learn more here >
Aha!Math
Building solid foundations early is a key to success in later life – and it’s critically important for STEM education. Aha!Math provides engaging, motivating K-5 curriculum that builds students' foundational skills for math success. Fully aligned to state and Common Core standards, Aha!Math supports teachers with multiple models of instruction, and the data to make informed decisions. Learn more about Aha!Math >
Aha!Science
Aha!Science provides an engaging supplemental science curriculum for grades 3-5 with exactly what you need – from lessons to simulations – to build students' foundational science skills, even under time and budget constraints. Turn your students into science thinkers for life. Get started with Aha!Science >
Adaptive Curriculum Math
Supporting middle school students with instruction and supplemental resources that actually reach and engage them is a key to success with STEM. Adaptive Curriculum Math, for grades 6-8, focuses on inquiry-based learning and uses high-quality, realistic visuals and rich 3D graphics to energize and engage middle school students. It gives them insight, an active way to engage in learning math, and an opportunity to apply their learning. Find out more >
EasyTech
EasyTech is the premier K-8 digital curriculum for integrating tech and 21st century skills into core instruction. From mouse basics to basic HTML, online safety, keyboarding and word processing, EasyTech supports teachers and prepares students with the skills they need for STEM studies, college and career in a global, tech-based world. See how EasyTech can help you >
All our ready-to-go curriculum offerings can be purchased individually. They can also be packaged to meet your specific needs. Discounts may apply.
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Just what you’re looking for
The Learning.com marketplace is the place to go to quickly find free and for-purchase standards-aligned, web-based resources for STEM.
Whether you are building a STEM program from scratch or supplementing an existing program, the Learning.com marketplace helps you efficiently find just what your students need. Everything comes with Learning.com’s powerful suite of tools to help you orchestrate a truly engaging STEM experience for your students.
Your students deserve the best
You’ll find STEM content from the best free content providers like Khan Academy, NASA, American Museum of Natural History and MIT. In fact, you’ll find thousands of free resources inside.
You’ll also find resources for purchase from the best premier content providers like LEGO® Education, Defined STEM, Conceptua Math and Adaptive Curriculum. There are currently more than 40 providers in the industry leading Learning.com marketplace and the list is growing!
The Case for STEM
STEM is not just science or technology or math or engineering. It’s a truly integrated approach to learning.
Done right, STEM engages students and increases motivation with project-based learning, encourages students to solve authentic problems, and asks them to work with others to build real solutions.
Why now?
Through project-based and authentic learning experiences, STEM encourages open-ended exploration, collaboration, problem-solving, decision-making, creativity and innovation.
These are not new skills. Producing students capable of innovative thinking and problem solving has always been important to teachers. What’s really different about STEM and why is it so important now?
Consider:
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Global competition
As the world shrinks, competition becomes fiercer. Students need to do better to stay ahead.
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Technology driven economy
Technology is creating opportunities, and new challenges, at a faster rate than ever before. 21st century skills are a prerequisite to entry and absolutely required for upward mobility.
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Rapidly changing world
The top 10 in-demand jobs in the US in 2010 did not exist in 2004. Companies with multi-billion dollar valuations have appeared from nowhere and disappeared completely within the last ten years. Today’s students need to be adaptable and prepared.
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College and Career Readiness
Students need technology and 21st century skills to further their educations and to prepare for jobs in this global, tech-based world. These include everything from word processing to spreadsheets and also include systems thinking, creativity, optimism, collaboration, communication and attention to ethical considerations. Developing these critical skills is essential for life and career in the 21st century.
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Common Core Initiative and state standards
To meet these challenges, education itself is changing. Standards initiatives—including the Common Core State Standards, TEKS, NGSSS, and others—are calling for increasing rigor in education. STEM, with its emphasis on applying knowledge and 21st century skills, meets the challenge of these new rigorous standards.
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Academic benefits and student performance
STEM and problem-based learning develop rigorous thinking habits and 21st century skills. STEM provides a meaningful context for learning scientific, mathematical and technological concepts. STEM increases engagement and motivation which leads to increased comprehension. STEM asks students to apply knowledge which provides them with the opportunity to demonstrate understanding and build procedural skill. STEM is proven to improve math and science outcomes and make a real difference for students.
The time is right for STEM
We have the content, tools and services to make STEM a snap.
The digital classroom, delivered
Once we've helped you identify the perfect STEM content and put together a program tailored to your students' needs, you'll want a better way to use it all with your students too. That's why we developed the Sky digital learning environment. It's a smart, easy way to access, distribute, monitor and track all your STEM resources.
With technology that truly delivers a better user experience, Learning.com empowers teachers and improves STEM education outcomes for all.
Learning.com features
Here's a quick look at some of the ways the Learning.com digital learning environment can make your life easier and teaching in the digital age more effective, productive and fun:
- Orchestrate use of all digital resources across your school or district
- Integrate digital content into your lesson plans
- Create and share lessons, projects, journals, and activities
- Design units and instruction plans for individuals, groups and entire classe
- Assign work, collect lessons, and support your students with safe online communication
- Individualize instruction with powerful tools for more efficient, more effective results
- Connect digital resources with easy online assessment, grading and tracking
- Quickly find and assign free and for-purchase digital resources from our open network of exceptional STEM content providers
- Connect and collaborate with our vibrant online community of more than 130,000 teachers on Learning.com
- Access everything with a one user name and password
Learning.com is the right way to integrate STEM into your classrooms and create a dynamic, engaging, blended education experience for your students.
Vision, direction, resources and solutions
We can provide vision and direction for those getting started with STEM. We can support schools and districts by developing custom implementations to meet specific educational goals. We can help you assess where you are with STEM, identify where you’d like to go and then help you get there.
We provide implementation, planning and professional development services. We identify and deliver the STEM resources you need and help you maximize those you’ve already purchased or created. We provide tools and training to help STEM teachers make the most of blended learning. We help you see the big picture so you know where you are going and how to get there.
Our custom STEM solutions integrate proven content, powerful tools and practical services to meet your budget and your needs and to ensure that you’ll succeed with STEM. Request more information and get started >
Integration is the key
As we put together your program, we'll start with resources you already have. We'll show you new ways to use those resources to best effect. From there, you can choose from additional free, high-quality resources—from classroom ready projects to full year digital curricula to professional development opportunities—to build a STEM program that fits your needs.
We'll show you how all these resources work together to build a successful, integrated STEM solution.
We’ll help you integrate:
- True project-based learning with real-world, inquiry-based and open ended projects and rich, engaging curriculum
- Your existing STEM resources
- Our award-winning math, science and technology literacy curriculum
- Content from the best providers in STEM education like NASA, LEGO® Education, PhET, American Museum of Natural History, USA Today, and more
- Cross curricular connections with an engineering emphasis
- Course and classroom management tools to easily create lessons, simplify individualized instruction, streamline routine tasks, and track progress
- Blended learning experiences to make the most of classroom and digital instruction
Planning, implementation and ongoing support
We're committed to your success. Wherever you are now with STEM, we can make it easy to take the next step. We can help you understand and assess your current STEM needs and define your objectives. We can ease you through implementation. We will stay with you throughout the school year.
Together we’ll define your vision and direction. We'll develop a tailored STEM services plan that outlines key goals, strategies, opportunities and responsibilities. We'll work from your timeline and ensure that schedules are realistic and informed by our experience with STEM programs across the country.
We'll help identify curriculum that meets your students' needs. We'll share best practices for integrating new resources into your teaching. We'll help develop a custom approach that works for you and your budget.
There’s a science to our sequence
Our solution is a sequence and a science—designed by the best professional services team in the business. No matter what the size of your implementation, we can work with you to develop a practical implementation plan to achieve your goals.
1. Discovery: Initial online meeting and digital learning audit—we help you determine where you are now and what needs to happen to meet your goals
2. Development: A clear implementation plan with a course of action specific to your needs—roles are defined, curriculum is identified, scoped, sequenced and integrated into existing curriculum maps, training needs are assessed and trainings are scheduled
3. Deployment: Roll out with custom PD workshops, onsite mentoring and modeling
4. Evaluation: Regular review of implementation to inform any needed modifications
5. Success!
We don't stop when you start
We'll support your efforts with the best professional services team working in STEM today. We customize our support and PD services to meet your needs. And, we'll be with you every step of the way.
Whatever your goals with STEM, we'll help you reach them. Together we'll turn your students into science thinkers, and problem solvers, for life.
