Learning Resources

Welcome to our Learning Resources hub!

Here's where you'll find educational tools in science, technology, engineering and medicine to bring STEM learning to students no matter where they are, or what time of year resources are needed. Check back often for new additions from MSI educators as well as teachers and administrators in MSI’s Science Leadership School Partners program.

Learning Lab Challenges

Try these easy, fun experiments at home or in your classroom

Learning Lab

MedLab: Vital Signs

Find and count your own pulse in a variety of situations. (Grades 7 to 12)

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Learning Lab

Mission to Mars: Dress Like an Astronaut

Analyze and evaluate materials for a next-gen spacesuit. (Grades 4 to 8)

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Pendulums: Think Like a Scientist

Swing into designing your own experiments! (Grades 3 to 6)

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Science Education Webinars

Watch these teacher professional development presentations from MSI educators

Webinar

Conceptual Coherence: Strong Links in the Chain

See how planning for coherence provides strong links for achieving both learning agency and NGSS Performance Expectations.

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Misconceptions: What You Don't Know Can Help You Learn.

Explore how to identify students' science misconceptions and how to alter instruction to achieve conceptual change.

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If All Models Are Wrong, Why Do We Use Them?

Learn about how scientists use models to answer real-world questions and how that translates to the classroom.

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Jr. Science Cafés

Meet working professionals in the fields of STEM

Professionals working in various medical fields answer your questions about their work life and how COVID has impacted their work. Appropriate for grades four and above.