Climate: Polar Regions
Backgrounders
Learn about the unique climate found in Earth’s polar regions.
Generating Electricity: Fossil Fuels
Backgrounders
Learn how energy from fossil fuels can be used to generate electricity.
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.
The Solutioneers Week 9: Renewable Energy
Interactives
This week's episodes and hands-on activity explore renewable energy.
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
Sheila Sadler
Sheet Metal Journeyperson
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
Catalytic Converters
STEM Explained
Learn about how catalytic converters make vehicle emissions less harmful.