STEM Education Resources
STEM Education Resources
Ideas for students, educators, and community
Ideas for students, educators, and community
PNNL’s Office of STEM Education provides resources for teachers, students, and interns to make participating in STEM education easier, more exciting, and accessible to all. We look for ways to connect PNNL’s science and technology research to support local and regional STEM education ecosystems.
Resources for Educators and Students
Let's learn together!
- STEM Mentor Guide: STEM Education Best Practices in Virtual/Remote Mentoring
- The Flooded Classroom provides a virtual field-based research exploration of a coastal ecosystem using 360-degree videos. The Educator's Guide provides additional resources for classroom integration and facilitation.
- Teacher Resource Cards provide information about the climate, geology, vegetation, and terrestrial and aquatic wildlife of arid lands in the Columbia Basin. Each Teacher Resource Card contains background information, suggested activities to enhance understanding of the ecology of arid lands, and additional resources including curricula, books, and websites.
- Design Thinking Lesson Plans for 6th – 12th grade teachers.
- Let’s use a cell-phone microscope! Watch and read how you can make your own.
- Let’s learn together in virtual reality!
- PNNL’s interactive Network Collapse App helps students learn about information networks and how data are stored and protected.
- PNNL’s Locating Luna App helps students learn about computing analytics “adventures” as they search for their dog Luna.
- Let’s practice for the DOE Science Bowl!
- Practice questions for high school students.
- Let’s solve some crypto-puzzles!
- CyberForce competition puzzles.
- Download some STEM posters to print at home!
Resources for Community
In the evolving landscape of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), it is important to improve communication among scientists and researchers to drive innovation and discovery. The Lab Signs@PNNL project seeks to address this by developing a comprehensive visual database of ASL signs for terms and concepts relevant to environmental and applied biological sciences. Learn more here!
STEM Education Videos
STEM Ambassador Displays
Check out displays that PNNL's STEM Ambassadors use when talking to the community about their work. Each contains background and thought-provoking questions to consider.
Biofouling: The Underwater Battle of Science and Nature
Building Batteries: It’s Not Magic, it’s Electrochemistry!
Engineering Super Plants for the Future
Fabrication and Machining: Transforming Ideas into Tangible Realities
Probing Plant-Microbe Interactions
So RAD: The Radiological Protection Team
The Colors of Rivers, Oceans, and Lakes
Tiny But Mighty: Exploring Enzymes