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Transform everyday routines and activities into playful STEM and brain building opportunities with your young child!
Publication Date: 3/22/2024
Find examples of adaptations based on functional needs/skills that can be used before or during dialogic reading and other shared book reading experiences.
Publication Date: 8/7/2023
Cross-cutting concepts are a set of overarching big ideas that look and behave similarly across all STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) domain areas.
Publication Date: revised 12/09/2021
Child-level processes are an iterative set of practices where a child is performing or doing something to answer a question (Bybee, 2004).
Publication Date: revised 12/15/2021
There are many prevailing beliefs and attitudes about child development, disability, learning, and STEM that limit STEM learning opportunities for young children.
Publication Date: revised 6/6/2023
Learn about dialogic reading and how you can use it to have storybook conversations in STEM with young children. 
Publication Date: revised 7/27/2023
In this guide, we operationally define noticing and provide examples of different ways young children, including children with disabilities, may show us how they have noticed something/someone in their environment.
Publication Date: revised 8/28/2023
The chart below outlines 8 easy at-home storybook adaptations, categorized by the type of support families/practitioners may provide (motor, sensory, communicative/linguistic, visual, or auditory).
Publication Date: revised 8/7/2023
At STEMIE, we use adaptations to ensure each and every child, including young children with disabilities can fully participate and engage in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning opportunities and experiences at home, in early childhood programs, and in the community.
Publication Date: revised 9/29/2023
Open-ended question prompts to ask young children
Publication Date: revised 9/29/2023
At STEMIE, we first use adaptations to ensure young children with disabilities can fully participate and engage in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning opportunities and experiences. However, some young children may require additional instructional supports from adults and/or peers to successfully engage in STEM learning opportunities and experiences.
Publication Date: revised 9/29/2023