STEM Scale-Up Programs

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2024-25 STEM Scale-Up Programs

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.

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.

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.

Derivita Math

Platform maximizes the impact of your current math curriculum and increases student engagement in math.

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.

FUSE Studio

FUSE creates onramps to deeper STEAM engagement and encourages STEAM exploration through an innovative, challenge-based approach and studio-like environment.

Investigating Everyday Phenomena

A program designed to captivate young minds while demystifying real-world phenomena.

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.

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.

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.

Spatial Vis: The First Step in Design for Engineering and Technology

A tool to teach freehand sketching and improve students’ spatial skills.

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.

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.

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.

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Past Scale-Up Programs

2023-24 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • Codelicious
  • Daily Math Fluency Centers
  • Discover Drones
  • Innovate-IT
  • Ioponics
  • Iowa Leadership in Engineering Design
  • Positive Physics and Chemistry
  • Python for the BBC micro:bit
  • STEM Cart: K-12+ Schoolwide STEM Solution
  • STEM Innovator
  • Storytime STEM-packs: STEM + Computer Science
  • Tiny Techies
  • Waterworks: Engineering and Investigating the Properties of Water

2022-23 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • Computational Thinking in Action with micro:bit
  • Daily Math Fluency
  • Ioponics
  • Iowa Leadership in Engineering Design
  • Nepris: Real World Connections to STEM Career Professionals
  • Project GUTS
  • Project Lead The Way: Energy and Environment
  • Ready, Set, Drone!
  • Robot Investigations with Finch Robot
  • SoapyCilantro: Introduction to Precision Health and Agriculture
  • Storytime STEM-packs: STEM + Computer Science
  • Tiny Techies
  • Waterworks

2021-22 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • CodeJoy Computational Thinking in Action with Micro:bit
  • DreamBox Learning Math
  • Fierce and Fearless STEAM Teacher Training
  • FIRST LEGO League Explore
  • Ioponics
  • Light & Shadow
  • Nepris
  • Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Gateway Medical Detectives
  • SoapyCilantro
  • Storytime STEM-packs
  • Teaching Energy Transformations and Energy Sources
  • VEX IQ Challenge

2020-21 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • Bootstrap: Data Science
  • Computer Science Discoveries
  • Computer Science Fundamentals
  • Computer Science Principles
  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science (CASE): Agricultural Power and Technology
  • Desmos Middle School Math
  • Differentiated Math Centers
  • Pint Size Science
  • PLTW: Cybersecurity
  • STEM in Action
  • STEM Innovator
  • VEX IQ Challenge
  • VEX V5

2019-20 Mathematics STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • Bootstrap: Data Science
  • Desmos
  • Differentiated Math Centers

2019-20 STEM Scale-Up Programs Menu

  • Computer Science Discoveries
  • Computer Science Fundamentals
  • Computer Science Principles
  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science (CASE): Food Science and Safety
  • Engineer Your World
  • Light and Shadow
  • Making STEM Connections
  • Pint Size Science
  • STEM in Action
  • STEM Innovator

​2018-19 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • CASE: Animal Plant and Biotech
  • CASE: Environmental Sci Issues
  • Computer Science Principles
  • Engineering Everywhere
  • Making STEM Connections
  • Pint Size Science
  • PowerTeaching Math
  • PLTW: Computer Science for Innovators and Makers
  • Ramps and Pathways
  • STEM in Action

2017-2018 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • CASE: Agricultural Power and Technology
  • Engineering is Elementary (EiE)
  • Engineering the Future
  • FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC)
  • Making STEM Connections
  • PLTW: Launch
  • PowerTeaching Math
  • Ramps and Pathways
  • ST Math

2016-17 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE): AFNR
  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE): NRE
  • Engineering is Elementary (EiE)
  • FIRST Robotics Competition
  • HyperStream
  • Making STEM Connections
  • PowerTeaching Math
  • Project Lead The Way: Introduction to Computer Science
  • Project Lead The Way: Principles of Biomedical Science
  • Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP) - Science and Global Issues: Biology
  • Spatial-Temporal (ST) Math

2015-16 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • A World in Motion
  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE)
  • Defined STEM
  • Engineering is Elementary (EiE)
  • FIRST Tech Challenge
  • HyperStream and VREP
  • KidWind
  • National STEM League: TEN80 Racing Challenge
  • Pint Size Science
  • Project Lead The Way: Engineering
  • Project Lead The Way: Gateway
  • Project Lead The Way: Launch
  • Project Lead The Way: Introduction to Computer Science and Engineering
  • Spatial-Temporal (ST) Math

2014-15 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • A World in Motion
  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE)
  • Defined STEM
  • Engineering is Elementary (EiE)
  • FIRST Tech Challenge
  • HyperStream and VREP
  • KidWind
  • Pint Size Science
  • Project Lead The Way: Engineering
  • Project Lead The Way: Gateway

2013-14 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • A World in Motion
  • Camp in a Can Show & Tell
  • Carolina STEM Curriculum
  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE)
  • Defined STEM
  • E=HC2 Exploration = Health Careers Connection
  • Engineering is Elementary (EiE)
  • HyperStream
  • Project Lead The Way: Gateway to Technology

2012-13 STEM Scale-Up Programs

  • A World in Motion
  • Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE)
  • Engineering is Elementary (EiE)
  • Fabulous Resources in Energy Education (FREE)
  • FIRST LEGO League
  • FIRST Tech Challenge
  • HyperStream
  • iExploreSTEM
  • KidWind
  • Partnership for Engineering and Educational Resources for Schools (PEERS)
  • Project HOPE (Healthcare, Occupations, Preparation, and Exploration)
  • State Science + Technology Fair of Iowa
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