Looking for tips and strategies to launch your teaching into the digital age? Curious about how to bring teaching to life with the latest and greatest gadgets and apps? Join renowned ed tech expert Leslie Fisher for a dynamic, show-and-tell session about the latest tech tools making a splash in education on October 14. Learn More

Minerals are all around us. They're in our kitchens and bathrooms, our classrooms and school buildings, and our cars and bicycles. In this interactive resource adapted from the U.S. Geological Survey, find out which minerals are found in items you probably encounter every day. Learn More

We already know that rapid climate change is happening, but how bad could it get? The answer lies with us, human beings. That's because the decisions we make now will determine if the effects of rapid climate change are mild or extreme. Scientists who study the climate tell us that if we continue to add carbon to the atmosphere at the current rate, the Earth will get a lot warmer in the coming years and decades. They use big, brainy computers to simulate what the climate will look like in the future. Learn More

This video explains how Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky used recycled cypress from pickle vats to build its visitor center and then "paid back" nature by creating a cypress-tupelo swamp. Recycled materials conserve water because no water is needed for their production, but to make those original pickle vats, a long-ago cypress-tupelo swamp had to be destroyed. Bernheim replaced that original swamp (a rich habitat for many different plant and animal species) with a new five-acre cypress-tupelo swamp at one end of a lake on the park grounds. Learn More

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