The Scientix MOOC “STEM Is Everywhere!” aimed to connect Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) classes with “real life” and help teachers integrate real-world problems into their STEM lessons and practices. During the course, participants had the chance to develop their own lesson plans, which now are available for everyone in the Scientix resources repository.

The MOOC was the first ever online course funded and carried out exclusively by Scientix and hosted on the EUN Academy. Its objective was to offer guidance and practical examples for teachers to bring real-world problems into STEM teaching in an entertaining way. The course also aimed to connect STEM teachers so that they can share experiences and best practices.

2164 participants followed the MOOC and 853 completed it. Of them, 274 submitted their learning scenario for consideration to be published in the Scientix resources repository. In the end, 36 were selected based on their topics and quality. We would like to thank the teachers who dedicated a lot of time to develop their great ideas into practical and high-quality resources.

Check out the lesson plans and follow #STEMIsEverywhereMOOC to find out more about the course:

• A natural pharmacy around us
• Analysis and characterisation of extra virgin olive oils
• Design a garden for your community
• Design your school
• Drones in our town?
• Firewood for a year
• Fixing our Punctures
• Getting to know our electricity bill
• Guide the orienteering team
• Household use of solar energy
• How much do I “cost” to my parents?
• How to lay a table
• Hygiene in the school environment
• Learning to avoid dental problems
• Let’s design our rooms
• Let’s light up the darkness
• Let’s Taste
• Let’s work with proteins “in the kitchen”
• Let’s investigate together the friction in our objects!
• My 24-hour time management
• Peeling off paint and fluffy formations on walls – analysing fungus formation and efflorescence on walls
• Planting in our school garden
• Science in real life: how to use the contact lenses
• Sound Transmission Through Laser Pulses
• Statistical… habits!
• Surface Tension
• Surface tension in nature and engineering
• Take care of your money!
• The effects of acid rain on cultural monuments
• The light around us
• The Mathematics of Healthy Life
• The most convenient mechanism for carrying our belongings
• The weather in our town!
• The weight of our culture
• Using captured local digital data to solve maths problems
• Your physics lab in your pocket