The California Academy of Sciences is a renowned scientific and educational institution dedicated to exploring, explaining, and sustaining life on Earth. Based in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the academy is home to a world-class aquarium, planetarium, and natural history museum—all under one roof. The academy’s Explore Science web page offers a window into the institution’s scientific collections and highlights the people, issues, and scientific breakthroughs redefining how humans understand—and protect—life on Earth. The Educators page offers resources for teachers near and far, and classrooms everywhere are invited to join the academy’s freewebchats. Descriptions and dates appears on the Educators page.
Since 2008, more than 700 high school chemistry teachers have received AmericanChemical Society (ACS)-Hach High School Chemistry Classroom Grants to support ideas that enhance classroom learning, foster student development, and reveal the wonders of chemistry.
Phenology is a fascinating study of the interconnectedness among plants, animals, and climate. It concentrates on the timing of different life-cycle changes that occur throughout the year. With Nature’s Notebook, teachers and their students can join more than 15,000 other naturalists across the nation in taking the pulse of our planet.
The National Weather Association (NWA) Foundation’sSol Hirsch Education Fund Grantsare awarded annually to K–12 teachers/educators to help improve the education of their students, their school, and/or their community in the science of meteorology.