Welcome to our resources page, including the AISL resource repository and other informal STEM education materials and reports! This page includes project descriptions, newsletters, research and evaluation tools, and other toolkits.
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Resource Library
The resource library, previously known as the Repository, is a crowdsourced and searchable database of thousands of informal STEM learning project descriptions, research materials, and evaluation reports.
Search the crowdsourced database of thousands of informal STEM learning project descriptions, research materials, and evaluation reports.
Submit your project work and resources to the repository to help others build upon your experiences.
All Resources
Review a brief summary of CAISE activities from 2007-2022
An open-access book on academic ableism.
Access peer-reviewed articles about STEM learning in environments such as makerspaces, afterschool programs, and formal/informal partnerships.
Overview The best practices outlined in this page are borrowed from the REVISE Center’s Inclusive Communication Strategy, developed by the Center’s Communications team. This page seeks to serve as a resource for the informal STEM education field and it is intended to be updated regularly---evolving as we learn. In our
A new interactive resource
A Critical AI reading list focused on education and efforts to promote equity in the field.
A PDF and Weekly drop-in space from the Othering & Belonging institute. Belonging: A Weekly Practice
A suite of professional learning tools to support your work
2021-2022 funding opportunities, key events and new publications
Featuring tools and instruments from 10 connected learning studies and projects. Connected Learning Research Tools
Explore approaches and techniques for ISE
Understanding an approach to facilitating conversations to bring community members together
Learn what's applicable to the design, implementation, and assessment of ISE
Tools to support diverse museum board trustees
The current state of data around gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
This glossary was written for educators to reference when learning about and using artificial intelligence (AI).
A set of resources for anyone interested in equitably scaling informal STEM learning programs and curricula for program developers, implementers, researchers, evaluators, funders, and more.
A toolkit that helps institutions collect data on the representation of gender in museum content. IF/THEN® Gender Representation Toolkit
The Lending Library is a collection of educational materials for teachers and other education professionals to check out and use to engage their students in a variety of scientific subject areas.
A guild developed by the National Informal STEM Education Network
Informational webinars and key documents
Various NSF resources to guide your project.
Managing Evaluation in Informal STEM Education Projects
A resource for developing informed proposals
REVISE newsletters about the informal sciences community
We welcome you to explore our REVISE-led webinars that cover a variety of topics for the Informal STEM Education community.
Explore webinars hosted by STEM Ecosystems, with a particular focus on equity. STEM Ecosystem Webinars
A deep dive into constructs
Guides to implementing STEM programs in libraries
This brief offers guidance to researchers and developers for responsible AI research and implementation in educational settings.
Annual compilations of trends and accomplishments from the ISE field
