The Tale of the High School Astronomer
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS Meet Ana Humphrey. She hasn’t graduated from high school yet, but she’s already discovered 560...
The Search at Edge of the Solar System
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS Is there a hard edge to the solar system? The question led to a big, breakthrough discovery that...
Discover the Wildlife of Your Home
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: K-ESS2-2, K-ESS3-1, 2-LS4-1, 3-LS4-3 Crosscutting Concept: Systems and System Models, Patterns,...
Pluto and the Planetary Pandemonium
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS It’s a scientific controversy of planetary proportions! Is Pluto a planet, or not? In this...
What Would Earth Be Like If Volcanoes Didn't Exist?
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS 2-ESS1-1 Crosscutting Concept: Stability and Change A volcanologist imagines a world without...
What Would Happen If There Was No Moon?
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS What if there was no moon? In this episode, we find out that there's a lot of fascinating lunar...
Pikas: Cute Animal, Serious Science.
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS ESS Photo by Johanna Varner. Pikas are our new favorite animal, and soon to be yours, if they’re...
The Weather Balloon, the Girl Scouts and the Unicorn
In this episode, we find out that balloons are about more than fun, they are involved in some very serious science.
How to Build a Robotic Eel
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS LS K-ESS3-3, 1-LS1-1 Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect, Structure and Function What's a...
Take a Tour of the Field Museum's Mineral Collection!
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: PS Have you ever been to a natural history museum? Sure, they have awesome fossils, human artifacts,...