A variety of STEM lesson plans that incorporate the history and philosophy of science and math have been published online. See the resources below to start exploring successful models of using HPS in STEM education:
Published lesson plans
Online collections of lesson plans and classroom activities
- Ada Lovelace Day: Resources For Schools
- American Institute of Physics: Teaching Guides and Educational Games on History of the Physical Sciences
- Choices: History and Current Issues for the Classroom
- SHiPS Resource Center for science teachers using Sociology, History and Philosophy of Science (lesson plans on many subjects)
- Science History Lesson Plans and Resources
- Scopes Trial: Historical thinking Matters
- Smithsonian Institution Archives: Education Resource Package
- Society for the History of Technology: Syllabi, Lessons Plans, and Other Teaching Materials
- TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education Across the Curricula Across the Globe
- Teaching Environmental History: Lesson plans on Canada, chemistry, environmentalism, global perspectives on wilderness, and more
- The History of Vaccines, Educator Resources (lesson plans and online activities)
- Time and Navigation, Smithsonian
- World History Commons
- Zinn Education Project
- Chymistry of Isaac Newton (educational resources for middle and high school chemistry)
- Darwin Correspondence Project lessons and resources
- Engineering and Technology History Wiki Lesson Plans
- Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes: Nature of Science Lessons
- Facing History and Ourselves (eugenics, race, IQ testing)
- Forest History Society: "If Trees Could Talk" middle school environmental history curriculum, and more
- HHMI Biointeractive resources for teaching the life sciences
- History and Philosophy in Science Teaching cases (many subjects, multilingual)
- How outstanding women in STEM fields overcame obstacles, PBS Newshour Extra Lesson Plan
- MathHappens field trips
- NWABR Biomedical Research Teacher Center (lesson plans on human and animal research, nature of science, etc.)
- National Science Digital Library––history of math (standards-aligned lessons, sortable by grade level and subject)
- National Science Digital Library––history of science (standards-aligned lessons, sortable by grade level and subject)
- National Science Teaching Association (NTSA) Lesson Plans & Activities
- Reacting to the Past: STEM Games
- Science History Institute roleplaying lessons (chemistry, environment)
- The Scientific Revolution: Science & Society from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment: Lesson Plans
- The Story Behind the Science (Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Geology, Chemistry discussion plans)
- TryEngineering, IEEE, History Lesson Plans
- Understanding Science (teacher resources on the nature and process of science)
- Visionlearning (many subjects, NGSS-aligned, bilingual)
Published lesson plan collections
- Allchin, D. Teaching the Nature of Science: Perspectives & Resources. SHiPS Education Press, 2013
- Berlinghoff, W. P., & F. Q. Gouvêa. Pathways from the Past I: Using History to Teach Numbers, Numerals... Oxton House, 2010.
- Berlinghoff, W. P., & F. Q. Gouvêa. Pathways from the Past II: Using History to Teach Algebra. Oxton House, 2013.
- Conant, J. B. Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science. Harvard University Press, 1957.
- Hagen, J. B., et al. Doing Biology. Harper Collins College Publishers, 1996.
- Jardine, D., & Amy Shell-Gellasch, eds. Mathematical time capsules: Historical modules for the mathematics classroom. MAA, 2011.
- Katz, V. J., & Karen Dee Michalowicz. Historical modules for the teaching and learning of mathematics. MAA, 2005.
- Swetz, Frank J. Learning activities from the history of mathematics. Walch Publishing, 1993.
- Swetz, Frank, John Fauvel, Bengt Johansson, Victor Katz, and Otto Bekken, eds. Learn from the masters. MAA, 1995.
- Reacting to the Past (College-level roleplaying games, including games on Darwin, Galileo, acid rain, climate change)