STEM Defines Our Future
First Book and GM have partnered to make STEM-focused resources and events available to the First Book network. We share a commitment to diversity in STEM through increased access to diverse STEM books and by highlighting various careers of GM employees.
Critical Thinking Skills & Habits
Critical Thinking
Skills & Habits
The Critical Thinking Skills & Habits series offers tips and strategies to help K-12 educators develop the future-ready reasoning and problem-solving skills students need to thrive in our fast-paced, technological world.
Future-Ready Students: Developing Critical Thinking Skills & Habits
Books That
Teach and Model
Critical Thinking Skills
Critical Thinking
in English
Critical Thinking
in Science
Critical Thinking
in Social Studies
Critical Thinking
in Math
The Critical Thinking Skills & Habits series offers tips and strategies to help K-12 educators develop the future-ready reasoning and problem-solving skills students need to thrive in our fast-paced, technological world.
Future-Ready Students: Developing Critical Thinking Skills & Habits
Books That Teach and
Model Critical Thinking Skills
Critical Thinking in English
Critical Thinking in Science
Critical Thinking in Social Studies
Critical Thinking in Math
The videos include:
- How to Build a Car (13 min)
- Communication (7 min)
- Teamwork & Collaboration (6 min)
- Creativity & Problem Solving (7 min)
- Leadership Mindset (7 min)
- Inclusivity & Empathy (9 min)
- Resilience (6 min)
- STEM Defines Our Future (7 min)
Share these videos with your students to explore a variety of STEM fields and discover the important role nontechnical skills like teamwork, inclusivity, and resilience play in career satisfaction and success.
STEM Defines Our Future: Soft Skills and STEM Success resource
This accompanying guide includes lessons and teaching strategies that help students connect the dots between what they are learning in their traditional STEM classes, soft skills like communication and creativity, and the rewarding STEM careers of the future.
STEM Defines Our Future: Soft Skills and STEM Success resource
This accompanying guide includes lessons and teaching strategies that help students connect the dots between what they are learning in their traditional STEM classes, soft skills like communication and creativity, and the rewarding STEM careers of the future.
STEM Careers All Year
STEM Careers All Year
Check out our past STEM Careers All Year events on demand!
Interested in sharing even more awesome STEM careers?
We’ve created a library of past STEM Career All Year events
so you and your students can learn all about diverse careers
from GM employees.
Check out our past
STEM Careers All Year
events on demand!
Interested in sharing even more awesome STEM careers?
We’ve created a library of past STEM Career All Year events
so you and your students can learn all about diverse careers
from GM employees.
2024 – 2025 School Year Calendar: Celebrating Diversity
and Inclusion in STEM
This year's STEM-themed school calendar celebrates the scientists and inventors whose contributions have changed our world for the better. Themed months, religious observances, and dates with cultural or historical significance are also included.
2024 – 2025
School Year Calendar:
Celebrating Diversity and
Inclusion in STEM
This year's STEM-themed school calendar celebrates the scientists and inventors whose contributions have changed our world for the better. Themed months, religious observances, and dates with cultural or historical significance are also included.
Shop STEAM Books
Shop STEAM Books
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Shop STEM Activities
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Ultralight Airplanes STEM Experiment Kit (Carton of 6)Retail: CA$184.38You Pay: CA$119.78You Save 35% -
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