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NASA's  Space Place website engages upper-elementary-aged children in space and Earth science through interactive games, hands-on activities, fun articles, and short videos. With material in both English and Spanish and numerous resources for parents and teachers, Space Place has something for everyone. Learn about everything from black holes and wild space weather to the reasons for seasons here on Earth. The Space Place has material on space, the Sun, the Solar System, our own planet, and the scientists and technology that make discovery possible.

Tynker for Home, is a startup company focused on teaching elementary and middle school students the basics of code through web based software. Tynker for Home uses games, videos, and other visual content to help students learn how to think like a developer through fun activties such as building an animated character and teaching it how to move and perform tasks through a visual programming language. Tynker for Schools costs $50 per student and has been implemented in over 2,700 elementary and middle schools, reaching 23,000 students.

Smart Science has developed a new era in after school science by providing virtual labs to after school programs free of charge. These virtual interactive labs allow students to experience frog dissections, plant hydration, graphing, and much more all on the computer. Students are able to observe experimental results for studies that would normally take months over the span of a few minutes.

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The National Science Foundation funds a program called: Engage, that seeks to involve students in engineering. On their website they have research that focuses on the lack of women in the engineering field. They also have suggestions about how to increase the number of women in the engineering field, specifically focusing on improving spatial abilities.

To access information about Engage, click here.