Resources Related to the STEM Trading Cards
Resources below directly relate to, or incorporate, the STEM Trading Cards and the STEMists featured on them!
Download Collector’s Cards for STEM Trading Cards!
8.5 x 11’’ printable mini-posters. Feature interesting STEM careers and diverse STEMists in your classroom!
Research your favorite person who works in STEM and write up a report on them! Pick your favorite historic or current “STEMist.” This lesson was designed for at-home learning but can be used in classrooms.
This document contains simple ways to use the STEM Trading Cards in the classroom, and to teach your students about STEM careers! (Physical cards are not required for most activities).
Have students research a “STEMist” (person working in science, technology, engineering or math) and then have them create their own STEM Trading Card with this template! This lesson was designed for classrooms but can be used for at-home learning
These lessons features #STEMist Dr. Seafa Ramos from Series 1. In this series of lessons, students learn about Traditional Ecological Knowledge, also known as Indigenous science. Lessons examine different ways of learning about science, relationships with the environment, and culminate in simulated mammal survey. Students are introduced to Dr. Seafha Ramos, a wildlife ecologist and Yurok tribe member.
This lesson features multiple medical illustrators, including Li Yao, featured on STEM Trading Cards Series 2. This is a fun and easy at-home activity - all you need is a pencil and piece of paper! Students learn now to draw a stomach, the lungs and the heart, and also learn about a unique art and science career path! Parent Implementation Level: Easy
This lesson connects to the work of #STEMist Dr. Susan Tsang from Series 1. Materials on many aspects of bats’ bodies and behavior and how they inspire human inventions. Culminates in students creating their own bat-inspired inventions. See Bat vs. Bat Bot pdf for photo credits
Introduce your students to STEM careers and real “STEMists”! Materials can be used to support lessons in grades K-12.
Can be used as a supplement to NGSS lessons about animals and habitats.
Outside Resources to access:
Story Bots. We love Story Bots ( and have no affiliation). It’s a show available on Netflix with little cartoon robots who answer STEM-based questions for kids. Even as adult science educators we have learned from this show, so it’s good for all ages. Yes we love hands-on learning but it’s hard to deny the power of this show! [We have only reviewed the videos, not the books].
Free printable life-size body parts from “Adventure in A Box.”
More background on sound. This page “Everything You Should Know About Sound” breaks down the different types of waves and shows how sound waves work with gifs. It’s very clarifying.
NGSS Resource: STEM Teaching Tools - a great resource for teachers ready to dig deeper into NGSS.