Submit a Curricular Resource

Teach Engineering offers a Publishing on Teach Engineering: A Guide for Authors course to support authors in preparing and submitting original, high-quality curricular resources.

In this course, authors:

• Watch a pre-recorded webinar that walks through the publication process.

• Learn what we look for in a high-quality submission.

• Complete short tasks to check understanding and guide progress.

After completing the course, authors may contact our publishing team at info@teachengineering.org to request a follow-up Q&A session, if needed.

Our goal is to support authors in planning and developing high-quality, hands-on, design-focused STEM activities that effectively serve the K–12 engineering education community.

It's time to start creating!

Important: Review these documents to guide you in your preparations:

• Gain a deeper understanding of our activities and their structure with this Annotated Exemplar.

• Familiarize yourself with how our external reviewers will check your curriculum for accuracy and quality using the Engineering Content Rubric (DOCX) and the K-12 Content Rubric (DOCX).

Note: We require each original, hands-on submission to be tested before we publish. We will need to know the date(s) of testing, location (this can be an informal environment), and approximate number of students who tested the resource.

Now that you've created and tested your curriculum, it's time to write it:

Depending on the type of resource, download the appropriate template:

Unit Template
Lesson Template*
Activity Template

*Teach Engineering does NOT accept standalone lessons; each lesson must be associated with at least one original activity.

Please use our worksheet template (DOCX) and PowerPoint template (PPTX) if you intend to submit worksheets and/or presentations in your unit, lesson, and/or activity.

The submitting author needs to complete the TE Submittal Request Form to initiate the submission process. The form requires the submitting author’s name and contact information and includes Teach Engineering’s Submittal Agreement, which must be reviewed and accepted before a submission can proceed.

The form also collects information about the curriculum being submitted, including:

• The title of the submission
• The supporting organization and/or educational institution involved in developing the curriculum (or "Independent" if no organization was involved)
• Contact information for the curriculum coordinator or principal investigator at the supporting organization (or "NA" if not applicable)
• The NSF grant number, if the curriculum was developed as part of an NSF-funded project (e.g., RET or ERC) (or "NA" if not applicable)

Finally, the form asks whether you need to request a username and password for the online Teach Engineering submission portal. Only new authors are required to request credentials.

Please note: Authors who already have Teach Engineering credentials must still complete the Submittal Request Form for each new submission.

Reach out to info@teachengineering.org if you have any questions about the submittal agreement.

Using the username and password provided via email by the Teach Engineering editorial team, log in to the online Teach Engineering submission portal and upload your submission materials.

Before submitting, please complete the following steps:

• Save your curricular resource as a Word-formatted Teach Engineering template. Do not submit PDF files.

• Ensure all your supporting materials and attachments (e.g., worksheets and PowerPoint presentations) are saved 
 as editable formats (e.g., .docx and .pptx) in the Teach Engineering templates. Do not submit PDFs.

• Save all original images as separate .png or .jpg files (do not embed images only within documents)

• Organize your submission into a SINGLE ZIP file which includes

  • Your Teach Engineering  template (.doc or docx format)

  • All editable worksheets and PowerPoint files (.doc, .docx, .ppt, or .pptx formats)

  • All original image files (.png or .jpg formats)

• Any additional materials (e.g., coding files, datasets, or other resources) Once your ZIP file is complete, follow the upload instructions in the submission portal to finalize your submission.

Congratulations!

You can now track your submission's progress through your account on the Teach Engineering online submission portal or you may email your Teach Engineering editors for updates.