Nebraska STEM Imagination Reading Program
We are here to help you develop children and youth’s love for STEM through imagination guides.
This program provides all caregivers (early childhood professionals and parents) with books, guided questions, and expanded learning resources to support literacy development, enhance relationships, and to make a connection with your local library.
Each year the theme changes, but the imagination guides always include the following:
- Conversation Starters
- STEM Connections
- Nature
- Creative Arts
- Infant and Toddlers
- Resource Connection
- Infant/Toddler Board Book Suggestion
2024 STEM Imagination Guides Choose Your Adventure
Adventures await when you connect storybooks and STEM!
Learning through adventures means lots of active learning experiences. This year's STEM Imagination Guides feed young children's curiosity as they explore their library, backyard, space, and beyond!
Up, Down, and Around
This is How We Do It
Rocket the Space Giraffe
Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library
John's Camping Adventures
The activities engage the children. The connection between the activities and the book content is easy to grasp. These guides encourage play and the children are eager to participate.
2024 Library Commission Theme: Adventure Begins at Your Library
Looking for engagement for school-aged children in your care? This program is available to youth development and early childhood professionals, afterschool clubs, summer school and camps, libraries, and parents. Resources provide engaging learning opportunities to spark an interest in STEM concepts and 4-H.
4-H 2024 Reading Connection Resources
- Head: Aventures in Your Community
- Heart: Adventures in Gardening
- Hands: Adventures in Food Science
- Health: Adventures in the Forest
4-H Reading Connections - Archived Lessons
No endorsement of products or services by 4-H is intended or implied.
Want to request this program? Please send an e-mail to Jennifer Hansen.
Jackie Steffen
Nebraska Extension in Cedar County
Early Childhood
jsteffen2@unl.edu
Sarah Roberts
Nebraska Extension in Dixon County
Early Childhood
sarah.roberts@unl.edu
Ingrid Lindal
Nebraska Extension in Saline County
Early Childhood
ilindalchavarria2@unl.edu