2024-25 STEM Scale-Up Program Menu
2024-25 STEM Scale-Up programs: Fact Sheet Packet
Click on the fact sheet for each program for more information about that program in a printable format.
All About Balance
Watch your children become more curious and engaged as they actively explore the role of balance within the world of objects, and with their own bodies.
- All About Balance Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: PK-2
- Contact: Beth VanMeeteren, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa Regents’ Center for Early Developmental Education Beth.VanMeeteren@uni.edu
- Website: https://regentsctr.uni.edu
Artificial Intelligence
AI for K-12 Educators is a professional development series that provides educators with a high-level understanding of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) impact our society.
- Artificial Intelligence Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: K-12
- Contact: Samantha Dahlby, NewBoCo, samantha@newbo.co
- Website: https://newbo.co/education/educators/ai-professional-development/
Blackbird Code
A collection of online curricula that teaches math or science through the lens of coding. Students write real, text-based programs which bring to life the core concepts they are learning.
- Blackbird Code Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: 6-12
- Contact: Ness Blackbird, Blackbird Code, ness@blackbirdcode.com
- Website: https://blackbirdcode.com
Derivita Math
Platform maximizes the impact of your current math curriculum and increases student engagement in math.
- Derivita Math Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: 6-12
- Contact: Doug Sovde, Derivita, doug.sovde@derivita.com
- Website: https://www.derivita.com/getting-started-onboarding
- Recording: Derivita Math Information Webinar
Exploring and Connecting to Iowa's Agriculture
Exploring and Connecting to Iowa’s Agriculture is a two-day professional development workshop that engages educators with ag professionals and classroom curriculum.
- Exploring and Connecting to Iowa’s Agriculture Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: 2-8
- Contact: Cathryn Carney, Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation, ccarney@iowaagliteracy.org
- Website: https://www.iowaagliteracy.org/
- Recording: Exploring and Connecting to Iowa's Agriculture Information Webinar
FUSE Studio
FUSE creates onramps to deeper STEAM engagement and encourages STEAM exploration through an innovative, challenge-based approach and studio-like environment.
- FUSE Studio Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: 4-12
- Contact: Reed Stevens, Northwestern University, reed-stevens@northwestern.edu
- Website: https://www.fusestudio.net/
- Recording: FUSE Information Webinar
Investigating Everyday Phenomena
A program designed to captivate young minds while demystifying real-world phenomena.
- Investigating Everyday Phenomena Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: K-5
- Contact: Valerie Cole, hand2mind, Inc., vcole@hand2mind.com
- Website: https://www.hand2mind.com/iowascaleup
- Recording: Investigating Everyday Phenomena Information Webinar
Making Innovative STEM Connection
This lesson design framework focuses around the idea that making and tinkering are ways to engage student’s minds and build conceptual understanding around academic content.
- Making Innovative STEM Connections Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: PK-8
- Contact: Robert Burnett, Science Center of Iowa, rob.burnett@sciowa.org
- Website: https://www.sciowa.org/education/professional-development/educators/making-stem-connections/
- Recording: Making Innovative STEM Connection Information Webinar (Passcode: ?qsxb@2g)
Positive Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, Environmental Science & Engineering
An engaging, online lesson and problem bank. The site was designed to be accessible to students on any level from basic to AP.
- Positive Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, Environmental Science & Engineering Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: 6-12
- Contact: Jack Replinger, Positive Physics, jack@positivephysics.org
- Website: https://www.positivephysics.org/
Robo Wunderkind STEM Program
Offers easy-to-use building blocks and a series of age-appropriate coding apps that develop computational thinking skills and spark a curiosity for STEAM in young learners.
- Robo Wunderkind STEM Program Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: K-5
- Contact: Jamie Guidry, Robo Wunderkind, Inc., jamie@robowunderkind.com
- Website: https://www.robowunderkind.com/us/home
- Recording: Robo Wunderkind Information Webinar
Spatial Vis: The First Step in Design for Engineering and Technology
A tool to teach freehand sketching and improve students’ spatial skills.
- Spatial Vis: The First Step in Design for Engineering and Technology Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: 6-12
- Contact: Lelli Van Den Einde, eGrove Education, Inc., lelli@egrove.education
- Website: https://egrove.education/
Storytime STEM-packs: STEM + Computer Science
Incorporate age-appropriate STEM+C concepts into children’s programming. Children collaboratively explain phenomena or solve the problem, thereby making sense of the STEM concept.
- Storytime STEM-packs: STEM + Computer Science Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: PK-2
- Contact: Gabriela Rose, Allegheny Intermediate Unit Math & Science Collaborative, gabriela.rose@aiu3.net
- Website: https://storytimestem.com/
- Recording: Storytime STEM-packs: STEM + Computer Science Information Webinar
Teachley Math
Enhances K-5 core math curricula by building students’ conceptual understanding, fluency, and problem-solving skills across addition, subtraction, place value/base ten, multiplication, fractions, and measurement/data.
- Teachley Math Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: K-5
- Contact: Rachael Labrecque, Teachley, LLC, rachael@teachley.com
- Website: https://www.teachley.com/iowa-stem
- Recording: Teachley Math Information Webinar
Turing Tumble
A revolutionary STEM game that teaches how computers work at a fundamental level. Students build marble-powered, mechanical computers to solve a series of structured logic puzzles using their own hands instead of a screen.
- Turing Tumble Fact Sheet
- Grade Level: 3-12
- Contact: Anna Riechers, Upper Story, anna.riechers@upperstory.com
- Website: https://upperstory.com/
- Recording: Turing Tumble Information Webinar