This resource guide offers strategies to advance informal science education in afterschool.
Boosting STEM
All students, especially disadvantaged youth, need access to high-quality STEM learning opportunities to spark their interest in STEM careers and to be better prepared for them. Expanded learning settings provide excellent opportunities to actively engage students in STEM learning. Every Hour Counts partners have worked to promote the integration of STEM outside the traditional school day and have developed resources to assist with designing and improving the quality of these activities.
Science Beyond the Classroom: Critical to New York’s Future
New York State Afterschool Network
This brief argues that high-quality science learning outside the traditional classroom is critical to young people’s success and outlines practical steps to make it accessible throughout New York State.
Science After School: How to Design and Run Great Program Activities
This guide for program leaders offers a framework and practical advice for creating and maintaining high-quality science learning program in out-of-school time sites.
Why Do Science Afterschool
In this video, TASC highlights that engaging in science after school is not a substitute for having kids acquire basic math/science skills and knowledge at school, but it is a way to excite kids about acquiring that knowledge and to involve them in tactile, surprising real-world applications.
The Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center
In this video, Youthprise profiles the work of the Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center (KAYSC) at the Science Museum of Minnesota. KAYSC operates a range of programs that engage students in STEM-based learning both in school and through ELOs in the St. Paul district. The video highlights KAYSC's work around school-community partnerships and youth engagement.
Generate Some STEAM in Afterschool
In this video, Prime Time Palm Beach County describes partnerships between school-based programs and a local science center. The video highlights Prime Time’s role in supporting frontline staff to deliver high-quality learning experiences after-school.
