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the MIT pK-12 Community
A curated set STEAM resources that have been created for the K-12 community that parents, teachers, and students can use right now. Sort by topic or grade band. Check back in as these resources are updated in the coming days and weeks.
Parents may be interested in our resources about Teaching, Learning, Parenting and Gaming, including a video podcast series and list of games.
Also check out this post featuring Justin Reich’s tips for teaching and learning online in the age of COVID-19.
MIT+K12 Videos is an educational media program that seeks to spark curiosity and a love of learning among kids and kids-at-heart.
Check out a large library of K-12 videos that promote STEM-literacy and open the door to MIT and the STEM world!
Most videos are 2-12 minutes long
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Share your creations with others in the online community and the world!
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century. Get started today!
Create. Explore. Play.
Create your own Scratch project in minutes!
We are faced with a tremendous amount of news and information about COVID-19. One way to respond is to try to better understand the spread of coronavirus and strategies to contain its spread. Work together with the Project GUTS team to see what we can learn!
As part of the COVID-19 Modeling Challenge, young learners will learn how to model the spread of COVID-19 using StarLogo Nova.
Projects can take several hours to several days to complete, you can choose!
The Lemelson-MIT (LMIT) Program celebrates outstanding inventors and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers.
By providing activities and opportunities to encourage youth to invent and develop their hands-on skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, LMIT hopes to inspire the next generation of diverse inventors and entrepreneurs.
Explore interesting topics and complex systems via Participatory Simulations (pSIMS); a series of mobile device enabled activities developed by the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP Lab)
Check out the most recent pSIMS, Virus Game and Tragedy of the Commons!
