Two microphones aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover have recorded nearly five hours of Martian wind gusts, rover wheels crunching over gravel, and motors whirring as the spacecraft moves its arm. NASA has launched an interactive resource that allows listeners to hear recordings taken millions of miles away on the surface of the Red Planet.
The goal of OpenSciEd is to ensure that science teachers anywhere can access and download freely available, high-quality, locally adaptable full-course materials that support equitable science learning.
Districts, schools, and educators across the country are working on implementing a new vision for science classrooms based on the Framework for K–12 Science and the NextGeneration Science Standards (NGSS), in which teachers support students in science and engineering practices for building and using science ideas to explain real phenomena and solve real problems.
From butterflies and bees to beetles and birds, many kinds of pollinators have evolved within their ecosystems by building unique relationships with plants. To convey this message to a broad audience, Smithsonian Gardens has created Pollination Investigation, 14 free bilingual posters that take students on an exploration of the who, what, when, where, why, and how of pollination.
Scripps Research Institute has created a series of videos that answer “big questions” about the coronavirus. Only two minutes in length, the animated Science, Simplified videos dive into different aspects of the novel coronavirus.