April STEM Activities and Awareness Days
Every season has reasons to celebrate STEM!
Global Citizen Science Month (April)
- Citizen Science Month
- NASA resources
- SciStarter database of projects
- SciStarter citizen science day
- Globe Observer website - Clouds, Mosquitos, Land Cover, Trees
- Globe Observer app - Clouds, Mosquitos, Land Cover, Trees
- Exploring Earth: Investigating Clouds activity - connect to NASA GLOBE app
- Exploring Earth: Land Cover activity - connect to NASA GLOBE app
Global Astronomy Month (April)
Astronomy Week April 27-May 3
- Global Astronomy Day Month website
- Astronomy Day website
- Exploring Nano & Society - Space Elevator (NanoDays 2013) short activity
- Aerogel short activity
- Exploring Nano & Society - Flying Cars short activity
- Flying Cars theater program
- Exploring Size - Memory Game (NanoDays 2011 and 2012) short activity
- Exploring Size - Powers of Ten Game (NanoDays 2011, 2012, and 2014) short activity
- Exploring Size - StretchAbility (NanoDays 2010) short activity
- Scale of the Universe Zoom
- Is That Robot Real? children's book and poster
- explore this website by searching the topic: Earth and Space Science
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
- National Math Festival events
- explore this website by searching for topic: Mathematics
World Health Day (April 7)
- World Health Day and WHO World Health Day
- Intro to Nanomedicine video
- Exploring Products - Sunblock activity
- Nanotech and Consumer Products
- Should We Engineer the Mosquito forum
- Nanomedicine in Healthcare forum
- Nanomedicine Explorer exhibit and software
- Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology program
- explore this website by searching for topic: Life Sciences - Health and Medicine
National Robotics Week (April 3-11)
- National Robotics Week website
- Shrinking Robots! program
- Is That Robot Real book and graphics
- Robots and People program
- explore this website by searching for topic: Engineering and Technology - Technology
Yuri's Night (April 12)
- Yuri's Night website
- explore this website by searching the topic: Earth and Space Science
DNA Day (April 25)
- National DNA Day website
- DNA Nanotechnology hands-on activity
- Exploring Structures - DNA (NanoDays 2012) hands-on activity
- Building with Biology Kit activities
- explore this website by searching the topic: life sciences
Earth Day - April 22
National Environmental Education Week (week of Earth Day)
- Earth Day website
- National Environmental Education week
- National Environmental Education Foundation
- Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW)
- Tiny Solutions to Our Big Energy Problem stage presentation
- Energy Challenges, Nanotech Solutions forum
- Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology program
- Water Clean Up DragonflyTV episode
- Nanosilver DragonflyTV episode
- Nanosilver: Breakthrough or Biohazard? stage presentation
- Does Every Silver Lining Have a Cloud video
- Oil Spill Clean Up Simulation
- SustainABLE kit activities
- Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry activity - Cleaning Oil Spills with Chemistry (longer program)
- Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry activity - What’s in the Water (longer program)
- Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit activities
- NASA Earth Day resources
- explore this website by searching the topic: Earth and Space Science
- explore this website by searching the topic: Societal Topics - Sustainability
Information from National Informal STEM Education Network