STEM Links - K-12/K-16	Quick Clearinghouse Search

ASEE Engineering K-12 Center
The ASEE EngineeringK12 Center seeks to identify and gather in one place the most effective engineering education resources available to the K-12 community. From comprehensive data on outreach programs to career guidance materials to hundreds of links and readings related to engineering education, the ASEE EngineeringK12 Center offers immediately useful, easily accessible materials tailored to all parties with an interest in engineering education. This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

Assessing Women in Engineering
AWE is the Assessing Women in Engineering Project, funded by NSF (HRD 0120642) and designed to develop exportable assessment instruments, literature resources, and methodologies for Women in Engineering and similar programs. AWE Products are available through this site.

Cement Production
Flash tutorial on Cement Production.

Design Squad
Design Squad presents viewers with positive role models who experience engineering as a fun and engaging process. The image many still have of engineers is the outdated 'nerds with calculators and pocket protectors.' Design Squad goes a long way to address this. Our diverse cast of high school students are high-energy, smart, and approach the challenges they face with enthusiasm. And not a single one of them wears a pocket protector.

Engineering Education Service Center (EESC)
The EESC provides consulting, publications and workshops and presentations that promote engineering
for K-16.

Engineering Pathway
Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology and engineering technology, for use by K-12 and university educators and students. You are entering the engineering education "wing" of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).

GetTech.org
GetTech helps students, teachers, parents to plan for exciting careers in technology, engineering, manufacturing, and science. The National Association for Manufacturing and the Center for Workforce Success, its educational and training affiliate, are proud to team with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Labor and all of our Gold Sponsors and friends to bring GetTech to the nation's students.

Girl Scouts - STEM
Girls push boundaries, test limits, and look at the world around them with inquisitive eyes. They're natural scientists! Girl Scouts introduces girls of every age to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) activities that are relevant to everyday life. Whether they're discovering how a car's engine runs, becoming math whizzes, or learning about careers in STEM fields, girls are moving forward into the future. They can host science fairs, design Web sites, plan for space exploration, visit geological sites, and more. This site contains a list of ways Girl Scouts are promoting STEM for girls.

INSPIRE!
INSPIRE seeks to build and maintain strong partnerships with educational constituents to grow a vital and consistent platform for research and translation of research results for formal classroom implementation. To ensure impact on a broad scale, INSPIRE is initiating and leading an advocacy effort at state and national levels to inform and influence policy-making that will increase the U.S. commitment to P-12 engineering education.

Journal of STEM Education
The journal promotes high-quality undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through peer reviewed articles that provide: case studies and other innovations in education, results from educational research, and information on recent developments that impact STEM education.

Koalaty Kid (AQS)
Koalaty Kid is ASQ's K-12 quality in education initiative, and is a customized systematic approach to continuous improvement. It emphasizes a positive school environment, and embraces both the spirit and the substance of total quality.

Lesson Plans Library
Discovery Education's lesson plan library.

Lego®Engineering
LEGOengineering.com is dedicated to providing educators with resources for teaching through engineering with LEGO materials.

Lego®Engineering Symposium
Welcome to the Tufts University Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, a leader in supporting efforts to integrate engineering into K-12 education.

Making Engineers Cool
Search our ASEE engineering colleges' outreach program database for a K-12 program that fits your interests. You can either select various categories as search criteria or enter search keywords. You do not need to be registered to search the database.

Manufacturing is Cool!
Brought to you by SME, the goal of Manufacturing is Cool! is to promote the importance of engineering and manufacturing and the interesting, desirable and challenging careers they present. Explore our new Career Information and Opportunities area to learn about manufacturing (and other) engineering careers, salary information, accredited schools with manufacturing engineering/technology programs and interesting articles about people in engineering careers.

Micron Lesson Plans
Micron believes that supporting math and science education is critical to cultivating tomorrow’s technology leaders. That’s why Micron provides teachers with opportunities and tools designed to excite students about science, math, and engineering using hands-on, real-world applications. In addition to content rich Web resources, Micron provides classroom presenters, workshops and site visits in Idaho and Virginia. As well, Micron provides an interactive Web resource to introduce students to high-tech career options.

Missouri METS
The METS Alliance is a coalition of business, education and community leaders appointed by Governor Matt Blunt to boost student achievement in math, engineering, technology and science.

National Girls Collaborative Project
Numerous programs and initiatives to create gender equity in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have been implemented only to lose effectiveness or fade away. Had these programs had the benefit of collaboration with other girl-serving projects, organizations and institutions, and tools to assess and evaluate the impact of their efforts, their capacity for continuation and/or broader impact could have been substantially increased.

PBS Teachers - Science and Technology Resources from PBS
Summaries of on-air and online resources organized by subject and or topic.

PCS Edventures!
Innovation, technology literacy, globalization, survival. It’s a new world for students, teachers, and administrators with new challenges that require new thinking. PCS Edventures! Delivers products and services rich in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) that make learning easier, more engaging, and more effective at all levels. PCS Edventures: New Learning for a New World. This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

The Salvadori Curriculum
Over the past 30 years, the Salvadori Center has created a body of curriculum materials that has enabled hundreds of teachers and thousands of students to master the core subject areas as well as have a great deal of fun along the way. The Salvadori curriculum aims to gives teachers and students the tools to turn the abstract into the concrete through a range of activities, projects, and practices all solidly grounded in the principles of project-based learning.

Software Kids - Time Engineers
Time Engineers teaches engineering, science, and math without leaving the fun of gaming behind. Students travel in a cool time machine to three different time periods and encounter typical engineering problems to be solved in order to build pyramids, irrigate farm land, command a WWII submarine, raise and lower medieval drawbridges, and much more.

TEACH Engineering: Resources for K-12
The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms.

Teacher's Domain - Engineering
Explore the wide world of engineering with innovative multimedia resources from NOVA, Building Big, ZOOM, NASA, and more. This site includes multi-media resources and lesson plans for engineering disciplines.

Technology Student Association (TSA)
The Technology Student Association fosters personal growth, leadership, and opportunities in technology, innovation, design, and engineering.  Members apply and integrate science, technology, engineering and mathematics concepts through co-curricular activities, competitive events and related programs.

WEPAN - K-12 Programs
Making the Connection includes a Presenter's Guide, Activities, Newsletters and a CD of hands-on activities. All materials in addition to the CD of hands-on activities are available for purchase in the publications store.