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This curriculum is designed for teachers to use with high-school level science students and can be freely accessed and implemented by teachers anywhere in the world. The program content is aligned with common educational standards of learning (SOLs) in the US but is not specific to any State. At present, the curriculum will only be offered in English, but future iterations may include translation into other languages.

Middle school students, as scientists, investigate the impact of our diet choices on the environment to answer the driving question: How does eating beef affect climate change? Students analyze data to explore the motivations underlying deforestation in the Amazon, including some of the tensions between indigenous populations and other interest holders about land use. Students then get to model these ideas explaining how beef consumption in the United States and other countries is connected to d

The adoption of three-dimensional science standards based on A Framework for K–12 Science Education necessitates instructional shifts in the classroom. Collectively these shifts can be described as the ways in which we create opportunities for sensemaking. In this web seminar segment, we visit a classroom of students actively trying to make sense of the world and work together (asynchronously) to describe sensemaking. We then reflect on the scene to identify the supports students and teachers ne

Our Beautiful Planet is a series of compelling 5-7 minute science films highlighting the cutting-edge research that climate scientists are doing to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues. NSTA, The Climate Initiative, and Kikim Media have partnered to launch these films and this collection of classroom-ready lesson plans that highlight the science and engineering practices scientists use to explain the phenomenon of climate change.