All lesson are submitted by other teachers and group leaders who used our platform.

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Have lesson plans you'd like to share? Please send them to: contact@symbioticstem.org

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Lesson plans are coming soon!!

Books, articles, and excerpts for students suggested by teachers and mentors. Feel free to suggest ones to add to the list! 

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• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. Features captivating essays covering:

  • Amazing things we've accomplished through science​

  • Investigations into pseudoscience (including aliens, crop circles, ESP, etc)

  • Spotting pseudoscience ("the baloney detection toolkit")

  • What makes a question or hypothesis scientific 

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. 

  • A page-turning story about recent racial injustice in medicine and its consequences today​

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Beautifully written essays that shows the challenges and powerful results of bringing new ideas from one's culture to science. ​

  • For a glimpse, check out this amazing excerpt from the book (personally, one of my favorite chapters). 

Ways to do serious science without university-level equipment.
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• Cloud-controlled microscopy for k-12 students
   

• Make sterile solutions using an inexpensive pressure-cooker. 

Some useful articles we've come across for bringing DEI and/or STEM mentoring into the classroom:

 

• Teaching Outside the Textbook: Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into the Science Classroom Using Real-World Experiences
   

• Building Inclusion in STEM Through Activation of Multicontext Theory

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We're always open to suggestions, so send us other materials you've found useful! 

More great, online programs that tackle issues of STEM inclusion and mentoring from different angles.
 

• Skype a Scientist: video calls for entire classrooms, clubs, or families with expert scientists (graduate students and researchers with a PhD or MD). Geared towards science and broad career questions, not one-on-one mentoring.
   

• SciTeens: online courses (especially in coding) and a forum to ask specific questions (science projects, applying to college, etc) and get feedback from the community or one-on-one with a mentor.

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• Sprouting: online courses (especially in coding) written for teachers in both Spanish and English.

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• DataClassroom: interactive online lessons to teach students data analysis.