Resources for Educators

This video series, originally produced as Zoom events for educators during the 2023-24 school year, are freely available on a dedicated website as recordings that explore how to fruitfully engage with AI in the classroom.

The PeBLES2 project (Place-Based Learning for Elementary Science at Scale) created free, high-quality, place-based science units and teacher support tools for upper elementary educators.

Pre-K through 5th grade educators can access meaningful strategies for taking outside that MMSA created in collaboration with eductions. These lessons and routines include: “Multiplication Arrays in Nature(opens in a new tab),” “Position & Distance on an Outdoor Number Line(opens in a new tab),” “Age of a Tree(opens in a new tab),” and many more!

Project-based learning empowers students to build STEM skills and explore their own ideas—but guiding independent projects can be a challenge!

Visit MMSA’s FREE resources website for materials and strategies to enhance your STEM facilitation skills and learn to coach other educators to do the same.

Teach ME Outside(opens in a new tab) (TMO) has created tools and resources to help you learn and build skills to create a culture of teaching outside and evaluate outdoor and environmental learning programs in your schools and communities.

This toolkit is designed to be a simple and time-friendly guide to take the work you are already doing in your environmental learning programs and lessons and shift them from students “learning about” content to “figuring out” content.

Teach ME Outside(opens in a new tab) (TMO) shares fantastic resources, lessons, and strategies in their guide: Science & Math Outdoors – Exploring Environmental Phenomena to Engage in Sensemaking.

Teach ME Outside(opens in a new tab) (TMO) has created this incredible guidebook for educators on how to build a culture of teaching outdoors.

Discover the techniques of Asking Purposeful Questions and how they foster critical thinking and meaningful connections. Our blog post delves into the process and shares educators’ tips from their experiences.