Looking for an easy way to bring engaging, hands-on STEM learning to your afterschool program? Afterschool educators can now access free STEM Learning Journeys designed specifically for out-of-school-time settings—plus an opportunity to earn a stipend of up to $1,500.

Developed by STEM Next in partnership with Verizon™, these bundles of lessons and activities help afterschool educators engage youth in hands-on STEM learning with topics including AI, sustainability, space, and engineering.

Programs that complete the Nature & Sustainability Learning Journey can qualify for a stipend based on youth participation.

Learn more and get started: https://bit.ly/STEMLearningJourneys

Need support? Register here for a walk-through session with STEM Next.

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Since its start in 1970, Earth Day has become a global day of activism and learning about environmental topics related to protection of the Earth, its natural resources, and species. Climate change, global warming, deforestation, air pollution, water pollution, and loss of biodiversity are just a few of the many environmental issues that threaten the health of our planet. Learning about the science behind these issues is a first step to creating strategies and solutions for conserving energy and natural resources, reusing and recycling materials, protecting habitats and ecosystems, developing safer chemical processes, and slowing global warming.

Virtual Field Trip

A virtual field trip with fun animations and close-up looks at real bugs shows kids how the tiniest creatures play a big part in putting food on our plate.

Teacher's Guide

A classroom guide for grades K-5 helps little learners understand what roles bugs play in the health of our soil and the food we eat.

Activity Guide



Hands-on activities will introduce your entire family to these incredible critters and how they help grow the food we eat.

Sciencing Out: Making Science Accessible and Engaging

For centuries, women all around the world have educated the public about science, often stirring up interest, curiosity—and even occasionally uprisings. As science communicators, these women have bridged the gap between researchers, mathematicians, and engineers, making information that would be otherwise inaccessible to the public understandable.

In the premiere episode of “Sciencing Out,” host Reyhaneh Maktoufi introduces you to Hypatia of Alexandria, a mathematician from 1,650 years ago, and modern-day ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni.

ACTIVITY

Do-It-Yourself