This project, affiliated with the Museum of Science in Boston, aims to foster engineering and technological literacy among children using a curriculum that integrates engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary science topics.

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This guide to engineering aims to encourage high school girls to enter the field.

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The Center for Education, part of the National Academies in Washington, D.C., brings together the nation’s premier national, state, and local leaders from education, academe, industry and government to address critical national issues in education research, policy, and practice.

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Liberty Science Center is a New Jersey nonprofit corporation dedicated to offering science learning experiences onsite, offsite, and online. Located in Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, the center aims to engages learners of all ages in science excitement, provide professional development for teachers, and actively connect people of all backgrounds to pivotal science and society issues.

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The Sloan Cornerstone Center is a resource for exploring career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, and healthcare. It contains information on more than 185 degree fields.

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Developed by the American Chemical Society, Bytesize Science translates scientific discoveries into intriguing stories about science, medicine, energy, food and more.

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Learn on the Website of David L. Hu, a professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech University, how the ability of snakes to slide helps explain the movement of wheels, ice skates and cross-country skis.

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This site offers ways students can learn about biomimicry in the classroom and outdoors; through lectures, classroom discussions, inquiries, or self-study.

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Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl, University of Washington, Seattle; Javier Movellan, Terrence J. Sejnowski, University of California at San Diego Abstract Human learning is distinguished by the range and complexity of skills that can be learned and the degree of abstraction that can be achieved compared with those of other species. Homo sapiens is […]

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