Earth Day Activities
TeachersEnvironmentTeacher CafeEducationEarth Day is April 22 and it serves as an important reminder of how each one of us needs to do our part to care for the planet. Technology is a fantastic way to get students to travel around the world and view ecological devastation or get students to research changing climate over time. With Apps and web tools, students can learn and share their ideas on social media.
Dear Water: You Are a Blessing
TeachersEnvironmentTeacher Cafe"Dear Water" is a poem written by Kenyan Schoolgirls and it's absolutely beautiful. It's an ode of gratitude to the recently drilled borehole in their community, which has freed up their time to attend school instead of walking long distances to fetch water.
Why Snakes Are Disappearing From Southeast Asia’s Largest Lake
AdultsAnimalsEnvironmentScienceBiologySome vulnerable species of water snakes are disappearing due to overfishing in the world’s most biodiverse lake—the Tonle Sap, in Cambodia.
What If The Sun Disappeared For One Month?
AdultsScienceEnvironmentSpaceFutureWhat if the sun goes out right now?
The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees
AdultsAnimalsNatureScienceEnvironmentHoneybees are dying from parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition, but we can help them in a number of ways, including by encouraging them to make a homemade antibiotic.
Rescued Scottish Wildcat Kittens Among Last of Their Kind
AdultsAnimalsNatureWildlifeEnvironmentThe orphaned sister and brother pair will be released to the wild when they’re old enough to survive on their own.
What's a smartphone made of?
AdultsEnvironmentTechnologyGadgetsScienceAs of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of copper.
Build Summer Underground Swimming Pool
AdultsCreativityEnvironmentDIYToday we built an Underground Swimming Pool. Its a hot season so we built a pool and continue with the construction of our Temple.
Inside the Mission to Save the Rare Helmeted Hornbill From Poachers
AdultsEnvironmentWorldWhat does it take to photograph the helmeted hornbill? Patience. National Geographic photographer Tim Laman teamed up with Rangkong Indonesia and spent months in the field just to get a glimpse of the extremely rare bird.
What If You Never Washed Your Hands?
AdultsEnvironmentHealthSpaceDo we need to wash our hands all the time?
Watch A Free-Diver Rescue This Entangled Whale Shark
AdultsAnimalsGlobal WarmingNatureWildlifeEnvironmentA Hawaiian family spotted this whale shark while free-diving off the coast of Lanai. First, they were excited about the rare sighting of the 20-foot-long endangered shark.
What is the coldest thing in the world?
AdultsEnvironmentScienceWorldThe coldest materials in the world aren't in Antarctica or at the top of Mount Everest. They're in physics labs: clouds of gases held just fractions of a degree above absolute zero.
Finding Groundwater
AdultsConstructionEnvironmentI have been searching for groundwater in my old village for the last three months. Unfortunately, my old Village was destroyed by a flood, now we are trying to find groundwater in my new village.
What Are The Most Mysterious Places On Earth?
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWorldThere are places on planet earth that very few humans have explored. Let's look at some of those mysterious destinations!
Why Some Animals Follow The Moon
AdultsAnimalsEnvironmentNatureOrganisms of all shapes and sizes synchronize their behaviors using biological clocks. Some keep pace with the daily rising and setting sun using circadian rhythms.
Amazing Earth Facts To Blow Your Mind
AdultsSpaceWorldEnvironmentWe live in a beautiful world, and these amazing facts will blow your mind.
Why BEAVERS Are The Smartest Thing In Fur Pants
AdultsAnimalsNatureEnvironmentBeavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don't notice them much today because there aren't many left, but before colonization, North America was home to hundreds of millions of these furry engineers.
How long will human impacts last? - David Biello
AdultsGlobal WarmingHumanNatureScienceEnvironmentImagine aliens land on Earth a million years from now. What will these curious searchers find of us? They will find what geologists, scientists, and other experts are increasingly calling the Anthropocene, or new age of mankind. David Biello explains how the impacts that humans have made have become so pervasive, profound, and permanent that some geologists believe we merit our own epoch.
Ocean Defense Kid | Connor Berryhill // 60 Second Docs
AdultsAnimalsNatureOceanCharityEnvironmentConnor Berryhill was only 5 years old when an underwater encounter with an endangered monk seal set him on a path to take care of the world's most vulnerable creatures. Now 11, he's taken his small-scale activism big and started his own nonprofit, MicroActivist. Their mission: to connect youth with projects to protect the ocean -- and save our planet's oceans and seas.