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!

• 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.
• Activities and Explorations is a collection of videos, hands-on activities, lesson plans, and more for educators, students, and families to discover. These are some of our favorite, tried-and-true STEM education tools you can use to learn together.  
• How to use a science notebook – just like a real scientist!  
• 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 networks¾how 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.

STEM Education Videos

Office of STEM Education Program Overviews

Signature Efforts:

• Computing Science Education flier
• Professional Development for Educators flier
  • Teacher-Scientist Partnership with the Association of Washington Business
  • Teacher-Scientist Partnership with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Research on the Science & Engineering of Signatures (ROSES)
• STEM Equity and Inclusion flier
  • Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement – MESA flier
  • STEM Outreach: STEM Ambassadors flier

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

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

Thin Films Are Cool!

Tiny But Mighty: Exploring Enzymes

Under Pressure: Piping at PNNL

Using Color to Enforce the Law