Science is
- Elementary
- Everywhere
- Awesome
- for Everyone
We provide inspiring, innovative, high-quality science experiences to the preschool and elementary school children who need them most.
SiE Books
For parents & educators
Join Jasmine and Jose to explore the world through fun, screen-free, easy to follow hands-on science activities that your 4-7 year can do independently.
After-School & Homeschool
For children at home
Exciting hands-on science through a combination of live weekly video meetings and offline hands-on experimentation using readily available household materials.
Professional Learning
For educators
Learn how to bring hands-on science and problem solving to your students during distance learning. Integrate literacy and science to cover more content and skills in less time.
In-Class (Virtual)
For classrooms & schools
Engage your students in rigorous, fun, hands-on science. SiE educators will join your virtual classroom with grade-level specific, standards aligned lessons.
SiE Results
For over a decade, we’ve provided enriching, rigorous science education for elementary schoolers and their teachers.
Our results speak for themselves.
100% of SiE Students
Say science is fun.
86% increase
In SiE students’ content retention every year.
2x as likely
To want to work in a STEM field: SiE girls compared to non-SiE peers.
70% increase
In SiE students’ articulating and using deep science concepts over consecutive sessions.
90% of teachers
Say our program increases students’ interest in science.
65%
of SiE students
Use scientific principles they learned in non-science classes.
SiE closes the achievement gap!
Students of color, English learners, and students from low-income families achieve at the same high rates as white students, and those from better resourced families.
SiE Praise
The Challenge
Now more than ever, we see how important science education is, even in the early years. Yet science education in elementary school is often overlooked or entirely neglected.
Only 1 in 3
Teachers say they feel prepared to teach science.
Only 22 minutes
Is devoted each week (on average) to teaching science.
Only 15%
Of teachers have received professional development in the last three years.
Only 25%
Of California 4th graders scored at (or above) proficient in science.
There’s a 45 points
Achievement gap between students of color and White students.
Only 44%
Of principals believe students receive a high-quality science education at their school.
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Our Vision
Empower generations to better the world through science and scientific thinking.
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