The Art and Science of Robots on Mars
In this podcast, Dustyn Roberts discusses her work on the cutting edge of engineering. Her Sample Manipulation System, part of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, is now helping to analyze [...]
Beyond Career Day: Integrating STEM Professionals into the Science Classroom
The National Science Teachers Association has chosen the Academy’s K-12 Education Team to present at this year’s annual conference in San Antonio, TX. The conference, titled “Next Generation Science: Learning, [...]
Curriculum Planning using Understanding by Design
This year I am teaching a new grade level at my school. I am now the 6th grade science teacher. This change is both exciting and overwhelming. I am excited [...]
Ways to get from Here to There…
New York City. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. It’s hard to believe that just over two hundred years ago, the skyscrapers and subways we see today were [...]
Waste Less, Learn More
As you can probably tell from some of my other posts, I teach a lot about climate change and environmental science. In an effort to practice what I teach, I’ve [...]
Telling Science Stories
In February, the Academy co-produced a night of science teacher’s stories with Story Collider, a science storytelling series. As we worked on marketing language and logistics, a little voice in [...]
Trials and Terrors of Biology Class
Author, storyteller, and teacher Matthew Dicks tells the story of his high-school arch nemesis, a biology teacher known as “Bunhead,” in part two of our science-storytelling podcast series. You can [...]
Call of the Wild: It’s a Jungle Out There Part II
Nestled in the heart of the concrete jungle that is New York City there is a place that glimpses into the real jungle… and arctic, and desert, and forest. The [...]
Have Lobster, Will Travel
Kelly Vaughan isn’t your average middle school science teacher. She’s willing to go out on a limb to engage her students—even if that means wrangling crustaceans now and then. She [...]
And the Oscar goes to…On the Silver Screen Part II
Movies and school don’t always seem to go hand in hand. But with the fast approaching Academy Awards it’s hard to ignore the extent to which movies are a part [...]
