Kids love exploring the world around them, and Earth Day offers a great way to introduce them to environmental science and engineering. The following sampler includes activities, lessons, and resources that promote green engineering and science learning.

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Plant a tree. Calculate your carbon footprint. Organize a community cleanup. There are countless ways that individuals — including students and teachers — can celebrate Earth Day and have a positive impact on the planet all year. Check out these Earth Day events plus activities, energy challenges, teacher professional learning, and other ideas for making an environmental difference all year ’round,

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Learn how to integrate engineering design into your STEM curriculum this summer with a pair of TeachEngineering two-day virtual workshops – the nation’s first engineering teacher professional development endorsed by the American Society for Engineering Education.

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Engineers are reimagining product design to reduce waste, improve recycling, and protect the environment from planned obsolescence.

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Having trouble finding quality materials to teach the open-ended investigations and crosscutting concepts envisioned by the Next Generation Science Standards? OpenSciEd has developed free, NGSS-aligned curricular units for middle schools (grades 6 to 8) along with teacher professional development.

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Celebrate Computer Science Education Week from December 6 to 12 with Hour of Code and other activities designed to inspire the next generation of innovators and programmers. This year’s theme, #CSisEverywhere, explores the impact of computer science on everything from the phones we use to our ability to fight disease and probe outer space.

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How do astronauts live and work in space? Award-winning children’s science writer Deborah Lee Rose tackles these and other questions in a new picture book, Astronauts Zoom! Maryland fourth grader Maya Miller, an aspiring astronaut and engineer, has our exclusive eGFI review!

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Engineering majors face an academic grind that leaves little time for other pursuits. That hasn’t stopped these student-athletes from pursuing their Olympic dreams – or bringing home medals. Here’s a sampling of engineering undergraduates, graduates, and faculty at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

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Engage your STEM students while instilling foundational physics, math, and science principles and such professional skills as teamwork through these eGFI Teachers sports-focused design challenges.

Check out these eGFI Teacher activities and other resources designed to up your STEM game, no matter what .

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