Explore our Curriculum & Resources

Cover of Smithsonian Science for the Classroom teacher guide with a blue background and 12 images in circles with bicyclists, magnets, and a tire swing
Curriculum

How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

Filed Under
Grade 3
Physical Science
Explore the World of the Small: Measuring in Nanometers Cover Image
Resource

Explore the World of the Small: Measuring in Nanometers

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Grade 7
Grade 8
Resource

STC Literacy Series™: Sound

Filed Under
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Curriculum

STC Program: Earth in Space Unit Kit

Filed Under
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
Cover of the grade 4 physical science teachers guide
Curriculum

How Does Energy Move from One Object to Another?

Filed Under
Grade 4
Physical Science
Video

Impact of Professional Development for Science Teachers

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Education
Title screen for the educational kindergarten game, Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp
Game

Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Grade 1
Kindergarten
Physical Science
Preview of the Smithsonian Science Education Centers info graphic on transforming science education
Resource

Transforming Science Education

This is a free resource
Curriculum

STC Program: Solids and Liquids Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

Filed Under
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Webcast

How to Best Support Your Child’s Science Learning in the Time of COVID-19

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Education
Two service members one standing on the ground one sitting in a flight simulator.
Resource

Spin Cycle: Training for High G Flying

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Earth & Space Science
Smithsonian Institution | Dr. Carol O'Donnell | Director, Smithsonian Science Education Center
Video

Global Inspiration | Dr. Carol O'Donnell | Smithsonian | January

This is a free resource
Astronaut in the Space Station looking out a window down onto Earth.
Resource

Space Junk Around Earth

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Earth & Space Science
Resource

Providing STEM Education to Underserved and Vulnerable Populations PowerPoint

This is a free resource
Video

Bike Powered Generator featuring Mr. Harrison

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Physical Science
A yellow rectangle with a man in the center looking at an inset image of an image from the James Webb space telescope of the southern ring nebula that is blue oval with red radiating from it.
Resource

Astrophysicist Explains first James Webb images

This is a free resource
Satellite image of the Milky Way galaxy
Resource

Milky Way Explorer

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Earth & Space Science
A full moon above a treeline.
Resource

Introduction to Moon Trees

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Earth & Space Science
Video

Soils– Lesson 6: How Quickly Do Soils Settle in Water?

Filed Under
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
Video

Teaching English Language Learning Students– Teaching Academic Vocabulary

Filed Under
Education
Title of the Includes sourcebook with the Smithsonian Science Education Center, NSF, and Howard University logos
Resource

Building Networks and Enhancing Diversity in the K-12 STEM Teaching Workforce

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Education
National Professional Development Program: 2016 and 2017 Cohorts Report Cover
Resource

National Professional Development Program: 2016 and 2017 Cohorts Report

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Education
Illustration of a rocket launch with text saying Go For Launch FAA.gov/space
Resource

Commercial Space Data

This is a free resource
LASER Focused: A Model for Teaching Inquiry-Based Science to English Learners - 2018-2019 District Report: Denver Public Schools
Resource

LASER 2018-2019 District Report: Denver Public Schools

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Education
The side of a building with lettering that says Chapman Training Complex and a news title across the bottom that says this is not space camp.
Resource

This is not space camp': Watch how recruits train for US Space Force

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Earth & Space Science
Image of 3D printed guitar
Resource

Match The Pitch!

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Engineering Design
Shrinking Sutures activity cover
Resource

Shrinking Sutures

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Curriculum

STC Program: Floating and Sinking Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

Filed Under
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Cover of Stories of Women in STEM: Symbiosis with a green frog on a leaf
eBook

Stories of Women in STEM: Symbiosis

This is a free resource
Filed Under
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Sustainability
Curriculum

STC Program: Measuring Time Unit Kit

Filed Under
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5