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Science Update: Space Weather: The Sun, Earth, and You, December 4, 2025

Join us on Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about impending solar events and their potential impacts on Earth....

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Archive Science Update: Ocean and Coastal Acidification: Building Community Resilience to Our Changing Ocean, March 13, 2025

The ocean acts like a sponge, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Increased absorption by the ocean causes changes to our ocean's chemistry from pole to pole. This is known as ocean acidification. Ocean acidification has regional and local ...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Preschool Biology Chemistry Climate Change Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM

Nature Around our Schools: Using Nature Journaling to Promote Species Identification of Local Flora and Fauna

Journal Article

Nature Around our Schools: Using Nature Journaling to Promote Species Identification of Local Flora and Fauna

With environmental issues and awareness rising globally, our connection to the natural world is clearly critical, but education that teaches children how to relate to local plants and animals is seemingly lacking in elementary curriculum. For an unde...

By Bria Beardsley, Karl Jung

5E Earth & Space Science

Melting Science Stereotypes with the Help of a Snowy Day

Journal Article

Melting Science Stereotypes with the Help of a Snowy Day

How are exploring snowy spaces, starring in children's books, and making science discoveries inextricably linked? Access to and representation in all three of these experiences have historically been inequitable....

By David Owens, Regina McCurdy

Climate Science Earth & Space Science

Puddles to Floods: Field-based Investigations on Flooding in New Orleans

Journal Article

Puddles to Floods: Field-based Investigations on Flooding in New Orleans

All students deserve access to field-based learning experiences where they can conduct investigations and collect data to answer their questions about the world. These opportunities are particularly important in the context of complex climate-related...

By Brooke Sprague, Claire Anderson, Karen Marshall, Jazmine Henderson, Shermaine Johnson

Earth & Space Science Phenomena

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Archive Science Update: The Wonderful World of Plasma Physics: From the Birth of Stars to Building Cell Phones, February 20, 2025

What is inside our sun and other stars? What fills up the interstellar space? What is lightning? Trying to answer similar questions that come to the curious mind expanded our understanding of what happens to matter at high enough ...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Astronomy Earth & Space Science Physical Science Physics STEM

Gemologist Nathan Renfro

Journal Article

Gemologist Nathan Renfro

Career of the Month November/December 2024...

By Luba Vangelova

High School Careers Earth & Space Science Interdisciplinary

Saving Our Water: Engagement Strategies for Designing Collaborative Community-Based Solutions

Journal Article

Saving Our Water: Engagement Strategies for Designing Collaborative Community-Based Solutions

In recent years, some communities have experienced extreme conditions of drought: reduced water supply for farms, increased wildfires, and decreased water availability in reservoirs and groundwater basins. This article details how high school juniors...

By Raven Mangiante, Elaine Silva Mangiante

High School Biology Citizen Science Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Interdisciplinary

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