Resources
The ESC Research Collective is a family of interlocking projects — Families Learning Together, EPK-2, Beautiful Books, Material Inquiry, and the work still ahead. This page gathers what the Collective creates and points to, organized around its founding ethos: everyone teaches, everyone learns, everyone creates, everyone researches.
This page will grow as each project contributes its own tools, guides, and findings. What follows is the framework we’re building toward.
Teach
Facilitation guides, protocols, and professional development models for anyone leading STEM learning experiences with others.
Learn
Activity guides and materials for participants — families, students, and community members — engaging directly with STEM content.
Make
Tools and access points for making things: media production, fabrication, digital authorship, and portfolio-building.
Research
Frameworks, data tools, and publications for those studying, adapting, or building on this work.
Resources are also tagged by area of interest, so you can browse across categories:
- Informal STEM
- Intergenerational Learning
- Teacher Education
- Crafts & Maker Education
- Material Inquiry
Check back as these are built out, or contact us to learn more about current programming.
ESC Research Collective
The ESC Research Collective is an NSF-funded research project investigating how families, youth, and community members learn, make, and imagine together.