Generating Electricity: Wind Power
Backgrounders
Learn how moving air can be used to generate electricity.
Climate: Polar Regions
Backgrounders
Learn about the unique climate found in Earth’s polar regions.
Generating Electricity: Solar Cells
Backgrounders
Learn how energy from the Sun can be used to generate electricity.
How can we build a structure that protects toy people from wind?
Hands-on Activities
How could you design and build a structure that protects toy people from the wind?
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.
Weather: Precipitation
Backgrounders
Learn about humidity and the many forms of precipitation.
Weather: Clouds
Backgrounders
Learn how clouds form and how they can be grouped into different categories
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