Hear from deep space. Pupils learn how satellites transfer information back to Earth. They learn about three different ways to modulate radio waves and how a satellite sends information with only 0s and 1s. Using sound, class members...

Take a look at climate change from another angle. Readers learn about the MISR instrument on the Terra satellite and how it studies Earth. Pupils experience how the multiple cameras give scientists multiple views so they can better study...

Calculate the speed of the International Space Station. By reading the article, pupils learn about the concept of orbits. Scholars work through a formula to determine how fast the International Space Station is traveling to stay in...

Keep within a water budget. Learners find out that less than 2.5% of Earth's water is available to drink—and that there is a fixed amount of water. Scholars read an interesting article comparing the available water to a game of Monopoly...

It's not easy to measure the weather. Pupils learn about what all weather has in common—the atmosphere. Scholars discover how a meteorologists must be able to measure aspects of the atmosphere and decipher the data. They then create a...

Pupils learn of multiple ways astronomers look for planets outside of the solar system. By completing a hands-on activity, scholars discover that trying to see the planets directly because of the glare from the nearby star is nearly...

How does GPS know where everything is located? Pupils read about satellites that are mapping the ocean and the question on how satellites know where they are. Readers discover the workings of the Global Positioning System and create...

Break down light into spectra. Scholars learn how atoms emit and absorb photons and come to understand how this process allows scientists to identify different atoms based on either absorption lines or emission lines. Learners then...

In this lesson, students learn about the roles of the programmer and the robot, and how the two need to work together in order to accomplish their goal. Students also understand logic behind the robot's actions, and break a big plan down...

The top priority when it comes to food waste is to avoid generating more. Food waste includes all food intended for human consumption that never reaches us, as well as edible food that consumers throw away. As it rots in landfills, food...

Learn about the influence of the Arab and Islamic world in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and technology in this article.

Learn about the health risks posed by the use of e-cigarettes in young people.

Learn about differnet computer programming languages.

Learn about the exciting discovery scientists in South Korea have made about treating cancer cells with magnets.

Learn about how ecology is simply the study of how and why organisms interact with their environments.

Summarizing research found at the Mayo Clinic, this article explains why kids, who have only smoked a few cigarettes, "experience the same symptoms of nicotine addiction as adults who smoke heavily." Learn about how nicotine affects the...

With automated tools and instructional support, find out how to become a "learning engineer" - working to apply what's known about learning, to the real challenges of developing affordable, reliable, available, data-rich competency-based...

Learn about how the acoustics of a clarinet work by exploring this well researched site. You'll learn about the frequencies, the effects of the reed, the tone holes and more.

Learn about the cutting edge inventions being brought about by teens at Stanford University's bioengineering boot camp for high school students.

Learn about the evolution of spacewalking over the last fifty years. Includes video.

Learn about the discovery of gravitational waves made from two black holes colliding over a billion years ago!

Learn about a storm errupting in the Teacup Galaxy involving the explosion of a supermassive black hole.

Discusses what scientists learned about tsunamis from photographs of the skies taken at the time of Japan's tsunami in March 2011, and how this information might be used in the future to predict an impending tsunami. [July 6, 2011]

Learn about direct photo upload to the Habitat Network crowdsourcing citizen science website.