The following organizations and websites place emphasis on improving math and science teaching and learning around Pennsylvania and across the country.
Pennsylvania Stem Center Initiative
Pennsylvania's STEM initiative is designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating a set of goals and strategies that will bring the PA STEM agenda to fruition by 2018. Several coalition members are working actively on the STEM Center Initiative.
> Learn more about Pennsylvania's STEM Centers
Greater Philadelphia Regional Compact for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education
The Math and Science Coalition is a partner in this regional STEM initiative. The Compact is an economic and human development initiative created to produce a scientifically and technically talented, highly adaptable, creative, and socially responsible workforce for the 21st Century.
Operating on four strategic principles of promoting regional collaboration, advocating for successful programs, articulating policies to support STEM, and sharing research and data, the Compact charts a course for a “world-class education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. More than 40 regional organizations have signed the Compact to date.
> Read the complete Compact here
Pennsylvania was rated in Technology Counts, March 27, 2008.
> Learn more
Select Websites
> BrainPOP
> Coca Cola Space Science Center
> Curious Math
> EEEK!
> EPA Kidsstuff
> Extreme Science
> Figure This
> Try Science at Home
> National Science Foundation
> National Geographic Kids