Primates in the Lab: Debating the Use of Chimpanzees in Medical Research
Examining the pros and cons of using primates for research.
View ArticlePeer Review Meets D.I.Y.: Publishing a Student Science Journal
Conducting an exercise in the scientific process.
View ArticleIt’s Not All in Your Head: Designing Embodied Cognition Experiments
Developing and executing tests to determine how clothing affects how people think or behave and how they are perceived by others.
View ArticleBackyard Science: Tallying Local Species to Learn About Diversity
Lesson | Students consider the diversity of species in a local area by conducting species tallies, documenting their findings with photographs and video, and constructing maps and photo galleries that...
View ArticleYear-End Roundup | Science, Health, Technology and Math
Our lessons are on summer vacation, but here are links to every science, health, technology and math lesson we published this school year.
View ArticleLab Lit: Writing Fiction Based on Real Science
In this lesson, students learn about the genre of "lab lit," then choose from a number of activities in which they explore an area of science through reading and writing lab lit themselves.
View ArticleThey’re Back … Learning About Periodical Cicadas to Participate in ‘Citizen...
In this lesson students learn about the Magicicada periodical cicadas, a brood of which will emerge in the northeastern U.S. this year after 17 years underground. They can then choose to either...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On in There? Modeling the Inner Workings of the Brain
What does current research tell us about the brain, and what does the future of brain research hold? In this lesson, students explore the frontiers of brain science and build interactive models of the...
View ArticleText to Text | Einstein and ‘Where Science and Religion Coexist’
We take on the question of the compatibility of science and religion, with a 1930 Op-Ed written by Albert Einstein; a 2013 report on a science and religion conference; and a video of physicist Richard...
View ArticleGuest Post | Climate Change Questions for Young Citizen Scientists
A special Earth Day guest lesson, written with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a leader in global climate change research, and the Columbia University Earth Institute. It offers resources...
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