Educator Guides

This guide explores research that suggests language learning happens over a much longer period than typically thought.

This guide covers different types of personalized genetic testing and the medical information that can or cannot be learned from such testing.

This guide explores the evolution of animal weaponry and encourages students to think think through animal weaponry experiments.

This guide reviews the life and work of Stephen Hawking and asks students to work individually or in small groups to derive equations and calculate a theoretical amount of Hawking radiation emitted by a black hole.

This guide explores what happens to the body during an overdose of opioids and asks students to research and summarize CDC data on opioids.

This guide explores a variety of sugars and how they are modified in the body -- as well as how scientists follow those modifications.

This guide explores what it means to be a dinosaur, and features a classroom activity focused on real fossils.

Students will explore how rising carbon dioxide is threatening a lake food web, and will measure how the environment affects the heart rate of water fleas.

This guide explores an increasingly ubiquitous technology: the smartphone. How do its sensors work, what data do they collect and how can we keep ourselves safe from its spying eyes?

This guide explores the equivalence prinicple, a foundation of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the effects of low-gravity space environments on materials and the human body.

This guide reviews the Top 10 scientific discoveries from 2017, as reported by Science News, with a focus on key concepts covered across scientific disciplines.

This guide explores stem cells, gene therapy and related topics. Students can also measure the density of skin touch receptors in different areas of the human body.