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This interactive video explores how scientists identify which bat populations are infected with Nipah virus and could transmit the virus to humans.

This interactive module explores how different animals — elephants, birds, and bats — have evolved distinct ways of using sound to communicate.

This interactive module traces the evolutionary history of birds by comparing the bone structures of a chicken to those of other species.

Several questions are embedded within the short film The Day the Mesozoic Died, which tells the story of the scientific quest to explain one of the greatest, long-standing scientific mysteries: the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period.

This interactive module explores key human impacts on the environment and how they have affected Earth’s landscape, ocean, atmosphere, and biodiversity.

This interactive module explores the circulatory systems of major vertebrate groups to gain insights into their evolution.

This interactive module explores how scientists use the scientific process to learn about the distant past of humans.

This interactive module shows how DNA sequences can be used to infer evolutionary relationships among organisms and represent them as phylogenetic trees.

This tutorial describes the symbiosis between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and bioluminescent bacteria.

This interactive module allows students to compare the morphological characteristics of seashells and construct an evolutionary tree.

This interactive, modular lab explores the techniques used to make transgenic flies and demonstrates how these flies can be used to study gene expression.

This interactive, modular lab explores techniques for identifying and recording the electrical activities of neurons, using the leech as a model organism.