Projects & Materials

Here’s where we post examples of inquiry-based STEM learning going on in schools and after-school programs across our network. Browse them all or find inspiration by grade or subject. Each story includes links to student and teacher resources.

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Liam  Cross And His Mechanical Hand

Building a Mechanical Hand

“I never thought about it before, but I take my own hands for granted,” said Liam Cross, reflecting on his experience building a model of a...

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Augmented Reality That's Out of This World

At the Massachusetts STEM Summit, a student from Mashpee demonstrates her work, holding an iPad up to a picture of a violin. An application in the...

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Learning To  Code

Discovering a World of Code

Code powers our digital world. That’s a good reason to start learning what coding is all about. And it may just be more fun than you imagined....

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Transforming Fish with a Graphing Calculator

Graphing calculators are important tools for high school students but not for eighth-graders, right? We know that in high school, graphing...

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School Rocket Kids

Design Squad Rocket Launch Day

“Mr. Cutler, are we launching today?”   The eighth- and ninth-grade students in Adam Cutler’s “Design Squad” class had been working for weeks toward...

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School Duplo

Machines in Our World

The children finished building their seesaw in ten minutes flat, and right away they began experimenting with force and balance. We watched as one...

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A Hydroponics Experiment

Two eighth-grade students leaned in to compare the new growth on their plants. “This one is at least three inches taller,” one observed. “Yeah, but...

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