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Would you like to set foot on Mars one day? Humans have dreamed about exploring other planets, moons, and asteroids for decades, but the furthest we’ve gotten is Earth’s own moon. In this lesson, [...]

Darwin himself wrote of eyes, "The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered [...]

Thanks to so-much-evidence-it's-silly as well as, well, our own senses, we all know climate change is happening. We also know that we need to develop solutions to help us mitigate and slow the [...]

Have you ever stopped to think about how odd humans are? Not, like, in general, but biologically? For one thing, very few other animals walk the way we walk, on just two limbs. Our closest living [...]

Patrice Rodgers is a 2nd career High School science teacher who has been interested in all things science since before geeks were a thing. Her teaching career began over three decades ago in the [...]

Bonnie Tate is a physics and chemistry teacher at Apponequet Regional High School in Lakeville, MA. She has been teaching science in Massachusetts and Connecticut for fifteen years. She majored [...]

Natural history museum collections house some truly odd things, from random bits of fossil and bone to whole organisms preserved forever in jars of icky liquid. In this lesson, a team of [...]