Teach your class about being as adaptable as a bat with Aesop's "The Bats and the Weasels." After listening to an audio retelling of the fable, learners fill out a KWL chart about the story, including what they learned about bats.

¡Esta tierra está enferma! Beginning Spanish learners learn more about the ways pollution affects rivers, forests, oceans, and the animals that live in these habitats with a catchy and informative song.

Planetary scientists and future explorers are trying to learn about our neighboring planet without ever leaving Earth.

A recent evolution trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, spurred the intelligent design-evolution debate. Author Edward Humes, former evolutionary biologist and filmmaker Randy Olsen, and Nicholas Matzke, from the National Center for Science...

Listen to this discussion of a Video Pick of the Week, which looks at research into levitating fruit flies (and other things) using a strong magnet. This work, being done at the University of Nottingham, has applications to space travel....

We'll learn about new studies that take a census of just what lives inside your gut. Recent research indicates that the human intestines may be home to over 5,600 different bacterial species and strains.

The first four presidents were keen gardeners. Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison all enjoyed gardening, and these were interwoven into their political personas. Learn about some of the features of their gardens and what made them...

Learn about the White Nose Syndrome disease that is affecting bat populations and placing a species at risk of regional extinction.

Learn about Google's plans to deliver 3G-speed internet to the world's most remote corners using helium balloons.

In these two audio interviews from NOVA Online, students will learn about the difference between the common understanding of the word "theory" and how science uses the term.

An interview with Marc Abrahams, author of This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and other WTF Research. He is an expert in strange science, and talks about what we can learn from unusual and weird experiments....

In this segment, we'll get the big picture on science on the planet Mars. From orbiting observatories to roving rovers to the ditch-digging Phoenix -- what have planetary scientists learned about Mars, and what remains to be discovered?

Researchers report finding fossil remains of a 'proto-dinosaur,' some 10 million years older than previously known. Learn about the closest known relative to the dinosaur in this audio lecture. [12:55]

How do the smell and taste of food affect your mood during a holiday? Learn about the psychology behind these two senses. Aired Nov. 26, 2010 [7:57]

Learn about iron beads made from meteoric metals predate the Iron Age with this audio lecture. [6:40]

Learn about the discoveries that have come out of annual conference for physicist in this audio recording. The Aspen Center for Physics, a mountain retreat for theoretical physicists, turns 50 this year. [29:59]

Learn all about dogs, from how they communicate with us, to how they've evolved along with our technology. This segment also talks about dog genetics and evolution- how can a single species contain breeds as different as Great Danes and...

After the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster off the coast of Italy, questions were raised about how this could happen, and whether the ship had the best available electronic navigation system. The International Maritime Organization...

A talk with the architect of Washington University's Tyson Living Learning Center, an environmentally sustainable building. Aired Mar. 12, 2010. [17:47] Links to a video about three minutes long.

A look at the 109th annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, which draws avid birders from all over the country. The Count helps biologists learn more about bird behavior and their numbers. The information is added to an online database....

A conversation about the launching of the Herschel and Planck observatories by NASA and the ESA. Scientists discuss the features of these observatories, where they will be stationed in space, and what we hope to learn from them. Aired...

A discussion with chief scientist Ed Stone about what we are still learning from Voyager 1 as it nears the edge of our solar system, over thirty years after its launch into space. Aired June 17, 2011 [11:58]

Learn about nerve cells through this rap song.

Find tunes and lyrics for popular, holiday, patriotic or movie theme songs that help children learn about health, science, and the environment.