Highlights

There will be speakers and a panel discussion on BLOSSOMS at this year's MIT LINC Conference. Speakers include the BLOSSOMS Project Managers from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Lebanon.

On January 28th, MIT BLOSSOMS held a workshop attended by 70 high school teachers in Beirut, Lebanon. Read more.

The 6th International Conference of MIT's Learning International Networks Consortium (BLOSSOMS parent organization) will take place June 16-19 on the MIT campus. Read more.

BLOSSOMS is pleased to announce that January 7, 2013 marks the start date of our newest international partnership, with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Read more.

With school opening for the 2012/2013 academic year, BLOSSOMS is inviting high school teachers to submit lessons in Mathematics, Science or Engineering. Read more.

MIT BLOSSOMS is very pleased to announce the addition to its video library of three new lessons created by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Read more.

Take a look at this newsletter written by and for those interested in the topic of STEM education.

Contestants to submit design for new BLOSSOMS lessons. Watch for announcement soon.

Exponential growth is keenly applicable to a variety of different fields. This lesson helps students develop an insight about how quickly numbers can grow and decay.

Mr. David Black will film his winning lesson, "The Parallax Activity: Measuring the Distances to Nearby Stars", as a BLOSSOMS learning video.

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How many bacteria live on or inside the human body?

The winning teachers will be flown to Boston this summer and will videotape their new BLOSSOMS lessons at MIT. Read about it here.

New BLOSSOMS modules in Biology and Math—taught by inspired Wash DC public high school teachers? Read about it here.

MIT has announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx”"

How much blood do you have in your body—1 litre, 5 litres, or 10 litres?

What percentage of the mass of a tree comes from the soil

We focus on everyday math and science as it pertains to daily life.

Is there another Thomas Edison in your class? Inventiveness, creativity, seeing the world through new eyes. This video leads students from seeing the world around them as a cornucopia of engineering opportunities, all the way to an Elevator Pitch for a potential investor in their new companies. Watch it now!

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Watch the Statistics class of John Bookston at Arlington High School in Arlington, MA study the “Broken Stick Problem” with MIT Professor Richard Larson.

Watch MIT Professor Walter Lewin describe within an action orientation certain often difficult-to-understand concepts of Newtonian physics.