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STEM to the Rescue

Baylor College of Medicine and Hess Corporation have teamed to offer a unique resource for teaching STEAM content to elementary and middle school students. The 2020 Hess Ambulance Rescue Team, used in combination with the free curricular guide, STEM to the Rescue, provide a powerful STEAM learning experience that engages as it teaches.

Planning for Healthy Schools: A Guide to Reopening and Safe Operations

Planning for Healthy Schools provides an overview of health guidelines and strategies to maintain healthy buildings and protect people. It also contains decision-making tools about when to stay home, what to do if someone is ill or tests positive for COVID-19 and provides links to resources.

Coronavirus: What You Need to Know

Teach About COVID-19.
Visit the updated section on COVID-19 to find teaching resources, including slides, to use with students about the pandemic.

Engineering in a Pandemic

Baylor College of Medicine’s (BCM) COVID 19 Challenges enabled students to do fun STEM activities with materials readily available at home. Two challenges were designed for teachers to use in virtual classroom platforms. For the “COVID19 Face Covering Challenge,” students design a face covering. The “Social Distancing Challenge” called on students to use non-standard units of measurements to demonstrate how far six feet really is between people.

STEM @Home Activities

Easy STEM-based science lessons for children and teens.

In these unprecedented times of school closures and Stay-at-Home notices, Baylor College of Medicine is offering a set of hands-on K-12 activities, grouped by grade level, that will enable parents and children to remain engaged in STEM learning until school operations return to normal. We call this collection STEM @Home. The lessons were selected specifically because they are easy to use at home, and provide high-quality STEM content without the need for specialized training, equipment or materials. We welcome you to investigate our STEM @Home activities, and to explore the entire BioEd Online website for accurate, free STEM educational materials.