

What If Oceans Didn't Exist?
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS 2-ESS2-3 Crosscutting Concept: Patterns What would Earth be like if our oceans never existed?...


The Dinosaur Asteroid
NGSS Standards: ESS, LS Where did the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs come from? That’s what our listener Lucian wants to know. We’ll watch a “podcast movie” about the fateful impact, starting with an explosive collision in space that sent asteroids careening towards Earth. Then we’ll discover the science behind the story, with the help of planetary scientist Sean Gulick. He led an expedition to drill into the impact crater - and find the final piece of evidence in the ast


The Cave of the Neanderthal Tools
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS STANDARDS: LS 3-LS4-1 Crosscutting Concepts: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity What tools did Neanderthals use?...


Time Machine Animal Safari Road Trip
How did some animals start to walk on land? Why were dinosaurs so huge? What did our primate ancestors look like? Let’s dive into this...


How To Be A Fossil Fixer
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS Do you love fossils and dinosaurs? Let us introduce you to Myria Perez, a paleontology-obsessed...


Reinventing the Wheel
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: PS How would you reinvent something that’s been used for thousands of years, by millions of people?...


The Volcanic Eruption Adventure
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS 2-ESS1-1, 4-ESS3-2 Crosscutting Concepts: Stability and Change, Cause and Effect Would you fly...


The Call of the Antarctic Dinosaur with Julia Clarke
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS 3-LS4-1 Crosscutting Concepts: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity Julia Clarke grew up wanting to...


The Skull of the Ancient Primate with Chris Kirk
Who is the oldest primate, and is it our great-great-great grandfather? In this episode, we learn that our earliest ancestors didn't look...


The People of the Snow with Kelly Elder
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS 5-ESS2-1, 2-ESS2-3 Crosscutting Concept: Patterns In this episode, we learned about how...