Generating Electricity: Fossil Fuels
Backgrounders
Learn how energy from fossil fuels can be used to generate electricity.
Jean Paquin
Water Resources Analyst Engineer at Rio Tinto
Generating Electricity: Solar Cells
Backgrounders
Learn how energy from the Sun can be used to generate electricity.
Weather: Atmospheric Pressure
Backgrounders
Learn about the layers of the atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, pressure systems and fronts.
Query a Career Profile
Lessons
Students will explore career profiles and relate them to what they are learning in science class.
Cows, Methane, and Climate Change
STEM Explained
How do beef and dairy cows contribute to climate change? Livestock agriculture is a source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Krysten Rutherford
Career Profiles
PhD Candidate, Oceanography
Tropical Rainforest Biome
Backgrounders
Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of tropical rainforest biome.
Savanna Biome
Backgrounders
Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of the savanna biome.
Sheridan Thompson (she/her/they/them)
Career Profiles
Doctoral Candidate
Plant Taxonomy
Backgrounders
Learn about the categories, or phylum, of the plant kingdom with examples from each.
Plant Functions
Backgrounders
Learn about the important plant functions of photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration
Carbon Dioxide on Earth and on the ISS
Backgrounders
Carbon dioxide is an important part of the air on Earth and in space. What is carbon dioxide? How is it measured? How can it affect us mentally and physically?
Why is rain not salty?
Hands-on Activities
Make a model of the water cycle and find out how water moves around on planet Earth.
What is Ocean Warming and Why Does It Matter?
STEM Explained
Oceans absorb the greatest amount of solar radiation on Earth. Ocean warming can lead to glaciers melting and ocean acidification.