Succeed with STEM

STEM is an integrated approach to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. STEM uses project-based learning to engage students, teach higher-level, problem-solving skills and build learners for life. STEM initiatives have been shown to improve test scores in math and science and prepare students for college and career.*

We make it easy to add a STEM focus to your curriculum. We'll help you make the most of your existing STEM resources. We'll provide and identify additional necessary curriculum, content, assessments, projects, lessons and activities—many for free. Our tools and professional services help you implement, integrate, operate and make the most of your STEM initiatives.

  • 1. Discovery
    Initial online meeting and digital learning audit
  • 2. Development
    A clear implementation
    plan with a course of action specific to your needs
  • 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!
    More prepared
    teachers and improved
    student test scores

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Why STEM?

STEM is not just science or technology or math or engineering. It’s a truly integrated approach and our STEM solution is truly integrated as well.

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.

Our STEM solutions integrate proven content, powerful tools and practical services. From classroom-ready projects to comprehensive implementation plans, from engaged learners to academic success, we'll help you get there.

STEM is a journey, not a destination

Our solution is a sequence and a science designed by the best professional services team in the business.

Whether you are just starting to explore the world of STEM or already consider your team one of the best in the business, we can help you take the next step.

Together we'll figure out:
  • Where are you now?
  • Where do you want to be?
  • How will you get there?

We start by making it easy from the get go.

Wherever you are in your STEM process, Learning.com can help you make the next step

We'll get you up and running quickly. Together, we'll develop a tailored STEM plan with the roadmap for your success.

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* Aha!Science Effect >

* Satchwell, R., & Loepp, F. L. (2002-Spring). Designing and Implementing an Integrated Mathematics, Science, and Technology Curriculum for the Middle School. Retrieved 2010-9-November from Journal of Industrial Teacher Education.

Your students deserve the best

The best publishers in STEM education are teaming up with Learning.com to give your students the tools they need to succeed with STEM.

LEGO® Education, Adaptive Curriculum, Scientific Minds and others have joined with us. Top providers of free content like NASA, The American Museum of Natural History and PhET are part of the Learning.com solution too.

We formed these partnerships to make it easy for you to find the best teacher resources for your STEM units. Of course, we offer our own award-winning curriculum too—like Aha!Math, Aha!Science, and EasyTech.

Putting it all together

We do more than just pull all this content together. We'll customize your implementation, direct you to the best resources for your students, provide guidance and training, help determine scope and sequence. With Sky, our digital learning environment, we give you the best way to use all this great stuff in your classroom too.

Your students deserve the best. We make it easy to find, use and excel with the best in STEM.

Integrating your STEM content >

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 to build a STEM program that fits your needs.

We can also provide classroom ready STEM projects. And, we offer tools and training to help you build your own custom STEM materials.

We'll help you find, choose and use resources from other Learning.com STEM educators and connect and collaborate with them nationwide.

We'll show you how all these resources work together to build a successful, integrated STEM solution.

We integrate:

  • True project-based learning with real-world, inquiry-based and open ended projects and rich, engaging curriculum
  • Your existing STEM resources
  • Content from the best providers in STEM education like NASA, LEGO® Education, PhET, American Museum of Natural History, USA Today, and more
  • Our own award-winning math, science and technology literacy curricula
  • 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 to make the most of classroom and digital instruction

Curriculum highlights >

Curriculum Highlights


Aha! Science

Turn you students into science thinkers for life. Aha!Science is an engaging supplemental science curriculum featuring broad coverage of Earth and Space, Physical and Life Sciences for grades 3-5.

Aha!Math

Create successful math learners with Aha!Math. Build procedural fluency and conceptual understanding with this engaging supplemental math curriculum for K-5 grade students.

EasyTech

Teachers can easily and effectively integrate critical skills for modern living into math, science, language arts and social studies instruction.

LEGO® Education

Excite students to work as young scientists, engineers and designers with LEGO® Education. Students get hands-on experience with easy-to-build models and a deeper understanding of simple machines, mechanisms and structures.

USA Today

Interactive simulations allow students to explore real-world data. Graphics clarify complex relationships in the natural world. Photo galleries bring inaccessible places, animals, and moments in time home to the classroom. News articles connect current events to the science students learn about each day.

NASA

NASA's BEST Students (NBS) program was designed to teach students the Engineering Design Process, a series of steps engineers use for problem solving. NASA's BEST Students includes curriculum for three grade groups: K-2, 3-5 and 6-8, and uses the US endeavor to return to the Moon to integrate STEM into lively and engaging lessons and activities.

PhET

PhET Interactive Simulations are fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena. PhET simulations animate what is invisible to the eye. PhET uses graphics and intuitive controls, such as click-and-drag manipulation, sliders and radio buttons, to help students make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying scientific principles.

Adaptive Curriculum

Adaptive Curriculum provides teachers with engaging and effective curriculum to reach challenging middle-school math and science learners. Adaptive Curriculum focuses on inquiry-based learning and energizes students to be engaged with math. Adaptive Curriculum lessons, activities, simulations and quizzes are easy to integrate and are invaluable as remediation or as extra credit.

Scientific Minds

The Science Starter programs, from Scientific Minds, are research-based, teacher-friendly, and affordable for all school districts. The Science Starters program is built on sound brain research, best instructional practice, and empirical data.

American Museum of Natural History

OLogy comes to us from the American Museum of Natural History, one of the world's preeminent institutions for research, exhibition, and education across the life sciences, the physical sciences, and anthropology. Ology brings to life the museum's unparalleled collection of specimens and cultural artifacts collected over more than a century of exploration.

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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.

Sky brings together highly focused tools and services and applies technology that truly delivers a better user experience. Sky empowers teachers and improves digital education outcomes for all.

Sky comes free with all Learning.com accounts.

Sky features

Here's a quick look at some of the ways that Sky can make your life easier and teaching in the digital age more fun and productive:
  • Integrate digital content into your lesson plans
  • Create and share lessons, journals, and activities
  • Design units and instruction plans for individuals, groups and entire classes
  • Assign work, collect lessons, and support your students
  • Individualize instruction with powerful tools for more efficient, more effective results
  • Connect and collaborate with our vibrant online community of more than 130,000 teachers on Learning.com
  • Save time. Make a bigger difference in the lives of your students
  • Access everything with a one user name and password


Sky is the right way to integrate STEM into your classrooms and create a dynamic, engaging, blended education experience for your students.

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Planning, implementation and ongoing support

We're committed to your success with STEM. We start by working with you to plan your STEM solution. We'll ease you through implementation. We stay with you throughout the school year.

Together we'll develop a tailored STEM services plan that outlines key goals, strategies, opportunities and responsibilities. We'll work from your timeline but ensure that all timelines 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 to this blended, cross-curricular solution.

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.

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