Heat: Outdoors and Indoors
Backgrounders
Learn about the importance of heat, its sources and how people control it indoors.
Heat and Space Missions
Backgrounders
Learn about how people control heat in spacecraft such as the ISS and Orion.
How can you design an insulated container?
Hands-on Activities
How can you design a container that keeps something cold?
Let's Talk Climate Change: Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources to give you background knowledge on climate change.
How Vehicles Pollute the Air
Backgrounders
Learn how vehicles affect air quality, including their contribution to smog.
Design & Build an Insulated Food Container
Lessons
Students will design and build a prototype of a device to keep food cold for a specified time.
Green Energy
Backgrounders
An overview of environmentally-friendly ways to generate electricity and power
Earth Month: Climate Change
Backgrounders
Discover the probable causes, likely effects, and potential ways to mitigate climate change.
Climate Math
Backgrounders
Learn about how to calculate temperature anomalies as a way of understanding how our climate is changing.
Summer Symposium Series: Climate Career Resources
Backgrounders
A career focused on climate change and sustainability would let you help people by working to help solve the biggest problems of our time.
Rodrigo Vidal
Career Profiles
Architect, Teacher
Introduction to Heat Transfer
Backgrounders
Learn about the different ways that heat is transferred.
Introduction to Climate Change
Backgrounders
Learn more about the causes and impacts of global climate change.
What Causes Hot Things to Glow?
STEM Explained
Getting electrons excited by heat can cause certain materials to give off visible light when heated - like filaments in light bulbs.
Where Do Hurricanes Come From?
STEM Explained
Hurricanes are a kind of tropical cyclone. But where do they come from? And why do they cause so much damage? This article will answer all your storm-related questions!