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K-12 Educator Resources

Helping educators deliver engaging learning experiences that spark curiosity and build understanding of the world around us.

K-12 Curriculum Units

Our phenomena-based units are driven by student questions and curiosity, helping students make the shift from learning about to figuring out.

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Design Challenges & STEM Tasks

Students will use the engineering design process to come up with creative solutions to technical problems encountered at SURF. 

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Field Trips and Presentations

Help students make connections between what they learn in school and real world applications. Students will connect on a personal level with SURF team members.

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  • Students engage in STEM learning at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center in lead. Three children are looking up at a model hanging from the celing.

    Photo by Matthew Kapust

  • A group of students, wearing diffraction glasses, look on with expressions of amazement as light sources scatter into a kaliedoscope of rainbows.
  • A pair of students consider balanced and unbalanced forces in a counter balanced system.
  • Students engage in hands-on STEM Learning during a field trip day at SURF.

    Photo by Matthew Kapust

  • A team of students examine a map of an underground excavation.
  • A groupd of students atttempt to keep a paper towel dry in a tub of water
  • A scientist speaks with a child during a Pi Day Activity at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center

    Photo by Stephen Kenny

  • A group of students learning about a 3D model illustrating the underground at SURF.
  • A team of students examine rock samples
  • Learning about radiation at a community event

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