EE Week Greening STEM Planning Toolkits

EE Week's multi-year focus is Greening STEM. The environment is a compelling context for teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) as it provides teachers with a diverse range of real-world challenges that engage students in hands-on opportunities to apply and reinforce STEM concepts across multiple subject areas.

The following toolkits lay out sets of activities and resources in popular environmental topic areas that incorporate elements of STEM. Some activities and resources also include project-based learning, service-learning and citizen science components. 

Enjoy! And remember -- we love to hear from educators! Contact us at eeweek@neefusa.org to suggest an activity or share your story.

Featured Toolkits:

Using Technology to Connect Students & the Environment -- EE Week partnered with Project Noah to develop the Educator Toolkit for Using Technology to Connect Students & the Environment, a companion to the video, and includes activities and resources at all grade levels for implementing a project similar to the one featured in the video.

EE Week 2013 Educator Toolkit -- EE Week developed a suite of activies and resources for the 2013 theme, Greening STEM: Taking Technology Outdoors.

Schoolyard Bioblitz Planning Toolkit -- EE Week partnered with National Geographic Education and Project Noah to offer educators a toolkit, equipping educators with activities and resources to conduct a schoolyard or local bioblitz with their students.

Greening STEM Toolkits:

Earth Day Network Lesson Plans

For EE Week 2012, our friends at Earth Day Network developed a set of lessons plans around Greening STEM.

• What's the Hype about Bio-Fuels? (DOC)
• Making Your Business Green! (DOC)
• Plant Power!!! (DOC)