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How Do Some Cells Affect Mouse Color?

In this phenomenon-driven activity, students investigate how cells are signaled to make melanin and explain how mutations in melanin pathway proteins affect the coat color of various organisms.

Cell Biology
Genetics
Lessons
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Designing Solutions to Preserve Biodiversity

In this collaborative activity, students explore major biodiversity threats and design, present, and refine solutions for preserving biodiversity.

Environmental Science
Science Practices
Lessons
High School — General
High School — AP/IB

Analyzing Pedigrees

In this activity, students interpret several pedigrees of autosomal dominant and recessive conditions and consider the benefits and limitations of genetic testing.

Science Practices
Genetics
Lessons
High School — AP/IB
College
Image of a woodpecker on a tree.

Woodpecker Wars

Release Date
Duration 00:27:59

Scientists, soldiers, and landowners collaborate to save the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker at a North Carolina army base.

Image of a beaver swimming.

Beaver Fever

Release Date
Duration 00:27:48

The return of beavers to the British countryside is boosting biodiversity, reducing storm-induced flooding, and restoring wilderness to an over- manicured landscape.

The Impact of Wildfires

In this activity, wildfires and how much area they burn serve as a phenomenon to guide student inquiry, which includes evaluating data and developing scientific claims.

Environmental Science
Science Practices
Lessons
High School — General
High School — AP/IB

The Breathing Biosphere and Human Contribution

In this Click & Learn, students explore factors that contribute to patterns seen in the Keeling Curve: a continuous record of atmospheric CO2 starting in 1958.

Earth Science
Environmental Science
Science Practices
Click & Learn
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

How Can We Explain Evolutionary Relationships among Species?

In this inquiry-based activity, students engage in science practices to figure out ways environmental factors drive the natural selection and adaptation of Galápagos finches.

Evolution
Science Practices
Card Activities
High School — General
High School — AP/IB

The Science of Climate Change

This film begins with phenomena linked to climate change and then examines how Earth’s temperature is controlled, how we know it is changing, and how the current changes compare to those over the last 800,000 years.

Environmental Science
Earth Science
Short Films
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College