This activity is a field investigation where students make observations of the pebble beach, lava flows, and wetland restoration at Sugarloaf Cove to generate questions to be addressed throughout the earth science curriculum.

The potential of biotechnology to improve the condition of human life in developing countries is gaining credence. Robert Timmer, Ph.D. discusses how biotechnology could impact the economies of developing countries in terms of raising agricultural production while bringing benefits to healthcare, industry and environment. (28 minutes)

Scientist and author Edward O. Wilson, draws on studies from a broad spectrum of disciplines to show how various fields of inquiry, and especially the humanities and sciences, intersect with each other. According to Wilson, "the greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and the humanities." (58 minutes)

This activity is a classroom and field activity in which students record observations of birds in their natural habitat and make connections between the structure and function of the bird feet.

Guia desenvolvido pela Mestranda Yara Santucci Barreto, sob a Supervisão e Orientação da Professora Doutora Fernanda da Rocha Brando Fernandez, como "Produto Final" do Mestrado Profissional em Ciências Ambientais, através do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Rede Nacional para o Ensino de Ciências Ambientais, PROFCIAMB, através da Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, EESC, USP de São Carlos, em parceria com a Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA).
Este Guia de Princípios da Escola Sustentável tem por objetivo instrumentalizar e orientar gestores e a comunidade escolar, de forma compartilhada e conjunta, a detectarem nos respectivos domínios de sua instância escolar as adequações que se façam necessárias, de ordem física e também social e econômica, de forma que as ações de incrementos que desse instrumento se revertam favoreçam a transição das escolas para o conceito Escola Sustentável e, dessa forma, se alinhem à Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (EDS). Vem elencar 282 princípios balizadores acerca dos aspectos até hoje contemplados por autores atentos há décadas ao tema Escolas Sustentáveis, abrangentes o bastante para assegurar uma transição real para a EDS. Trata-se de um repertório reunido de forma inédita como forma de obter o estado da arte do que é possível chamar de Escola Sustentável e que vem contribuir para o alinhamento das escolas às agendas internacionais já criadas.

Use an astrolabe to measure the height of objects, and see seasonal changes over time.

This activity is designed for students to discover how making observations of the environment is the key to making sound predictions. Students will also learn how both positive and negative outcomes of these predictions can affect and shape future decisions.

This activity is a student based inquiry looking at various natural disasters and their impact.

Earl Ubell is a pioneer among science and health writers in America. After a long, distinguished career at The New York Herald Tribune from 1943 to 1966, he went on to work at both CBS and NBC News. Prominent in the emerging scientific writing community in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a recipient of the Lasker Medical Journalism Award 1957. Milton Stanley Livingston was a leading physicist in the field of magnetic resonance accelerators. Working first with professor Ernest O. Lawrence at the University of California, Livingston was instrumental in the development of the Berkeley cyclotron. Moving to Cornell in 1938, Livingston was part of the core group who established nuclear physics as a field of study. Choosing to stay with the Cornell cyclotron rather than follow colleagues onto the Manhattan Project, Livingston was involved in the production of radioisotopes for medical purposes. At the time of this interview, Livingston was director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, a joint project of Harvard University and MIT.In this program segment Louis Lyons quizzes Earl Ubell about the lack of public knowledge and the perception of the nuclear bomb, while pressing Professor Livingston to explain exactly what nuclear fallout is, and the danger it presents.

Students will create and investigate testable questions about how basil changes based on growing conditions.

This activity is a classroom chemistry lab where students will test different cleaning methods that could be used in oil spills. They will see the effects how oil spills damage animals and the environment.

This activity is a field investigation where students will observe, discuss, and gather evidence on how environmental changes affect animals that live in that habitat.

In this field lab students will investigate the biodiversity around their school. Students will perform a biodiversity count using transect line. The students will develop multiple hypotheses relating to biodiversity and propose additional procedures for studying, collecting and testing these questions.

This investigation is a field study where students compare the diversity of plants and insects in a naturally existing habitat to that of a human altered habitat.

This activity is field investigation where students map a neighborhood wetland and generate various watershed questions. Students identify engineered structures in or around this wetland and consider how flood water can be controlled.

In this activity students investigate soil pH differences and buffering capacity as it relates to acid rain, interpret and present their findings, and develop a new, experimental question.

This guided inquiry is a laboratory investigation on soil textures where students gather and analyze data, compare findings and develop new experimental questions.

In activity is a Biology field lab where students will investigate the relative health of an aquatic system based on bioindicators. Students will then summarize and reflect upon their findings.

In this jigsaw activity, students of intermediate-level French will divide into five groups to become experts on each of the five biodiversity questions featured on the Curiosphere website. They will proceed to explain their assigned aspect of the issue to a small group of students.