Ecosystems & Human Impacts
Free lessons & videos to explore climate change; highlighting the urgent challenges and solutions ahead.
Life After Wildfires: Observing and Predicting Forest Recovery
1-period video activity exploring forest succession, observation practices, and science identity with elementary and middle school worksheets.
OBSERVER: Seeing, Sensing, and Inferring
NGSS-aligned middle school lesson to help students master the essential scientific distinction between observation and inference.
Genetic Engineering and Conservation
Should We Use Biotechnology to Save Endangered and Extinct Species?
The Basis of a Good Hypothesis
Free Nature of Science lesson plan for grades 6-10. Includes a hands-on hypothesis cube activity and a video on indigenous knowledge and nitrogen cycling.
OBSERVER
An adventure in eight chapters. 🟥 There's a universe everywhere you turn.
Decoding Ancestral Knowledge
Nitrogen Cycling by Microbes in Native Hawaiian Culture
A Walk in the Woods
What does a redwood forest look like, and sound like, in the wake of a devastating fire?
Corals: On the Brink
Can we save coral reefs from extinction?
Fire Among Giants
What happened after the redwoods burned?
Fire Among Giants: Extended Voices
In-depth interviews with forest experts about the Big Basin State Park after the 2020 wildfire.
The Future of Forests
Will they survive the threats of climate change?
Saving The American Chestnut
A case study in genetic engineering
The First Entanglement
Did we domesticate plants or did they domesticate us?
