Lesson Plans

As traditional carbon-based sources of energy are dwindling, it's easy to cheer for solar and wind power to seize the moment and drag us out of the climate crisis bed we have made for ourselves. [...]

The rules of sexual inheritance are simple, right? Half the genes from parent one, the other half from parent two and bada-bing! New organism. What if we told you there is an exception to that [...]

Newborn babies have very immature immune systems, but they aren't completely defenseless against disease. Some antibodies pass from the parent's blood to the fetus' blood during development. But [...]

The Milky Way is our "home" galaxy but how much do we really know about it? Thanks to a phenomenon known as "dust extinctions," space is pretty hard to observe even with our best telescopes. With [...]

Looking at a wolf and a German shepherd, it is easy to think: "Sure, related." But what about a wolf and a Pekinese? Have you ever seen those dogs? They look like adorable walking footstools! [...]

What if you could cure cancer with gold? Yes, gold. But not just any gold... vibrating nanoparticles of gold. Sounds totally bizarre, but it's a real thing. This lesson has hands-on lab that [...]

What if we told you this lesson was about planets outside our solar system passing gas? But don't worry, it's *physics* gas! Students will learn a lot, we promise.

What happens when a planet forms near a black hole? That's what a bunch of researchers wanted to know. And it turns out that it's not too unlike a scene in the old movie Spaceballs where the [...]

What do we do about the microscopic particle of all-things-bad coronavirus? Well, to quote Matt Damon in The Martian: We’re going to have to science the *bleep* out of this. And it's never been [...]

Remember when our solar system had nine planets? (If you don't, please don't tell me because it reminds me of how old I am). Well, not satisfied with eight planets, some astronomers have been [...]