Two exciting new projects seek students and other volunteers to help build science’s understanding of climate change and light pollution. The projects’ web sites teach participants about these subjects while they collect vital data. Project BudBurst, which began on February 15, asks volunteers in the U.S. to track climate change by observing the time at […]

Student engineers in high schools are preparing for annual mileage competitions where passenger vehicles approach 1,700 miles per gallon. The Indiana Mathematics, Science, Technology and Education Alliance (IMSTEA) will host the annual Super Mileage Challenge on April 28 at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis. Last year, five of the 22 Indiana high school teams […]

A total lunar eclipse will be visible in North America on February 20th beginning at 8:43 pm Eastern and 5:43 pm Pacific time. This prime-time celestial show should be an excellent teaching opportunity for young astronomers, and several good web resources are available. NASA’s Eclipse Home Page is the most extensive, with downloads that include […]

The new Polar Sciences Collection from Teachers’ Domain includes 20 new resources, lesson plans, and student activities funded by NSF as an education activity of the International Polar Year. Teachers’ Domain has also catalogued other resources already on the site that complement the Polar Collection. Nearly all the new resources are available in the Open […]

The Shodor Education Foundation and the Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) have released a new set of tools to help teachers and students use a more dynamic approach to assess student achievement in math skills. The Interactivate Assessment Toolkit includes more than 50 Explorers, Games, and Quizzes that allow students to tailor their […]

The team that made the popular eSkeletons project has launched eLucy, a new site that supports Lucy’s American tour. “Lucy” is a partial skeleton of a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis. Evolutionary biologists consider the bones among the most important clues to the origins of the human race. Lucy almost certainly walked upright and […]