Building New Materials with Old Techniques

Intro to Bead Craft: Daisy Chains

The Science of Craft

How Curvature Creates Strength AND Flexibility

You're Already an Engineer: The Hidden Math of Craft

Behind the Researcher: Combining Worlds with Trevor Jones

A National Science Foundation CAREER grant to [Dr. Trevor Jones](https://www.trevorjjones.com/)

Science

How do scientists pick a question to study?

The Fairywren Challenge: Ask Questions Like a Scientist

Fairywrens and the Art of Inquiry

How Do Scientists Pick a Research Question?

The surprising science of bird families—An evolutionary biologist's #SciJourney

A National Science Foundation grant to Drs. [Allison Johnson](https://allisonelainejohnson.weebly.com/) and [Dai Shizuka](https://shizukalab.com/)

Can we reduce the carbon footprint of our favorite meals?

How sustainable is your favorite food?

Future Foods

Test your food carbon footprint knowledge! #sustainability

The Carbon Footprint Of A Sandwich

The Surprising Science Making Food More Sustainable!

The National Science Foundation: Center for Food Innovation and Diversification to Advance the Bioeconomy (FoodID), an NSF Global Center

A crash course in data literacy using stream ecology

DataStreams unit trailer

Data Streams

PPSTT…the secret to reading graphs like a scientist #dataliteracy 📈

How To Read a Graph Like a Scientist

Untitled media

Sponsored by [Tom Luhring’s Lab at Wichita State University](https://www.tomluhring.com/people.html), through a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Tinkering with Light

Trailer for Photon Engineers

Photon Engineers

Teacher Report | "Photon Engineers: Tinkering with Light"

Unit Walkthrough

What is Light?

- [Dr. Tom Folland's Lab](https://physics.uiowa.edu/people/thomas-folland) at the University of Iowa - National Science Foundation CAREER award, through the division of materials research, grant 2236807.

A Choose-Your-Own STEM Adventure

Trailer for Pacific H2O

Pacific H2O

PacificH2O Walk-Through

PacificH2O Interactive Web App

Playlist: PacificH2O Lab Videos

[The Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury](https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/) in Christchurch, New Zealand

How do we provide sustainable energy to communities?

Trailer

Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions

Getting Started

Powering the Marae

How do YOU use energy?

- [MBIE 2024 Unlocking Curious Minds Fund](https://www.mbie.govt.nz/science-and-technology/science-and-innovation/funding-information-and-opportunities/investment-funds/curious-minds/unlocking-curious-minds-fund/successful-2023-unlocking-curious-minds-contestable-fund-investment-round-proposals) - [University of Canterbury: Department of Chemical and Process Engineering](https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academic-study/engineering/schools-and-departments-engineering-forestry-product-design/chemical-and-process-engineering-department)

Tradeoffs in frogs, humans, and other animals

“Balancing Act” Unit Trailer: Free lessons about tradeoffs in life

Balancing Act

Teacher Report | "Balancing Act: Tradeoffs in frogs, humans, and other animals"

You Can't Have It All: Biologists Explain Tradeoffs in Life

Tradeoffs in the Love Language of Frogs

Dr. Michael Reichert's Lab studies the evolution of behaviors, in particular frog communication, and metabolism.

Evolution's Testing Grounds

"Hybrid Zones" Trailer

Hybrid Zones

Are hybrids rare? A biologist explains

Foraging Frenzy: A hands-on natural selection memory game

What Hybrid Birds Tell Us about Climate Change

A Pop Culture Intro to Birding by Ear

What bird is singing in this Taylor Swift song? 🐦 #birdsounds

Heard That Bird

Heard That Bird? Scientists ID bird sounds in popular media

- [Dr. Nicole Creanza](https://creanzalab.com/) is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. Her lab studies how human languages and birdsongs evolve through time and space. - National Science Foundation Grant NSF IOS-2327982

Building Resilience in Science

SciJourneys Trailer

SciJourneys

Researchers' SciJourneys Playlist

How to Ask Better Science Questions

How to create hypotheses? A biomechanical engineer explains

This project is funded by [IF/THEN®](https://www.ifthenshecan.org/), an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

Looking to Biology for Better Solutions

Borrowing Brilliance from Biology: The Future of Design

Bioinspired Design

Want to change the world? Start by clearly defining a problem

Kickstart innovation with a mind map

Finding Design Inspiration in Nature

- The [John Templeton Foundation](https://www.templeton.org/about/vision-mission-impact) funds research and catalyzes conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder. - [Dr. Emilie Snell-Rood's Lab](https://cbs.umn.edu/snell-rood-lab/people) at the University of Minnesota studies how organisms respond to anthropogenic environments, and implications for preserving biodiversity.

How group behavior can produce surprising problems—and solutions!

What makes a video go viral? Emergence!

Animal Collective

"Swimming in the Dark"

"EchoSim" Echo Chamber Simulation

- [Albert Kao's Lab](https://blogs.umb.edu/collectivelab/) at the University of Massachusetts Boston - National Science Foundation

Exploring how crystal symmetry can power everyday life

Exploring Crystal Structure and Symmetry (Part 1)

Electric Crystals

Exploring Crystal Structure and Symmetry (Part 2)

The Magic of Piezoelectricity: How Crystals Create Lightning

- [Funsize Physics](https://funsizephysics.com/), where working scientists invite *you* to share in the joy of scientific discovery. - National Science Foundation grant DMR 2048959

How perception, emotion, and cognition shape our preferences

Trailer: I Like That!

I Like That!

I Like That! How our eyes and brains interact to determine what we like and dislike

How we see color - Colm Kelleher

The Science of Color Perception

- The National Science Foundation - [Dr. Tamra Mendelson's Lab](https://www.mendelsonlab.net/) in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Chemical Engineering Dyes to Brighten Lives

Colorful Solutions

The Nature of Color at the American Museum of Natural History

True Blues: Textiles Water Pollution Problem

Why Exceptions Matter in Biology and Everyday Life

Borneo Atmospheric Video

Guardian Frogs of Borneo

Do Female Frogs Call?

Calling behavior of male and female Guardian Frogs

- [Johana Goyes Vallejos, PhD](https://jogoyesvallejos.weebly.com/) — Postdoc in the Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri – Columbia

Preventing extinction through gene flow

The Return of The Florida Panther

Genetic Rescue to the Rescue

Are endangered species worth saving?

What is genetic rescue, and can we use it to save endangered species?

Saving a species through genetic rescue: Why we need model organisms

- [Sarah Fitzpatrick, PhD](http://swfitz.com/index.php), Department of Integrative Biology at Michigan State University's W. K. Kellogg Biological Station - [National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov/) Grant DEB 2016569

Challenging long-held assumptions about birdsong through data visualization

Lesson Trailer: "Females Singing to be Heard"

Females singing to be heard

How to solve the Polymath Puzzle from the "Females Sing" lesson

How to read the deciphered scatter plot

Polymath Puzzle Reveal—Is the graph about birds, spiders, whales,...?

The [Animal Behaviour Society](https://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/index.php), an international non-profit scientific society that encourages and promotes the professional study of animal behavior.

Math

Why Insects Belong in Every Classroom

Bring Authentic Science Into Your Classroom and Decide Who Wins the #MySciJourney Challenge!

Win Cash, Save Science: Share Your SciJourney! 

Crafted Materials: Traditional Handicraft for Future Technology

Crafted Patterns: Taking Tiles to a New Dimension

Crafted Structures: Geometric Solutions for Engineering Dilemmas

Let Your Questions Fly

Not Just Winging It

What Are You Eating?

Food For Thought

Tomorrow’s Table

Fashioning Future Foods

PPSTT: The secrets of interpreting data

Are streams wet? Practicing data literacy with flow data

What lives in a stream?

Seeing through time: A puzzling history of optics

What's a lens? Bending light for sight

What is light? Making waves

Communicating with light: A message to Mars

Manipulating with materials: The path of light beams

Water Matters

Pacific H2O Blended Lab

Flowing from the Lab to the Real World

Reflecting on Samoan Wisdom

Energy Everywhere

Punahiko Marae Power Lab

Solar Origins

Life is full of tradeoffs

Who will be the next top frog?

Lions, Ligers, and Pizzlies

Chickadee Foraging Frenzy!

Making sense of hybridization and evolution

Heard that Bird?

Crafting Better Questions (feat. Ethnobotanist Rose Bear Don’t Walk)

Weaving Hypotheses (feat. Biomechanical Engineer Ritu Raman)

Seize the Data! (feat. Cryoseismologist Celeste Labedz)

Define the Problem

Biologize the Problem

Select a Biological Model

Propose Bioinspired Solutions

Evaluate

Draw My Social Network: A Student-Driven Reflection on Human Connections

Emergence in the Game of Life

Flock this Way

Swimming in the Dark

Emergence in Human Social Networks

The End (Reflection)

What is a crystal, anyway?

Unit cells and their molecular building blocks

How do crystals get their shapes?

Electric crystals and their broken symmetries

Why Do I Like That?

The Perception of Beauty

Creature Stats

Role of the Dye

The Price of Color

Thinking Like a Chemical Engineer

Defining a Pattern in Nature

Analyzing Data from Part 1

Let's Go to Borneo!

Florida Panthers in Peril

Genetics of Endangered Species

The Florida Panther Debate

Deep Dive into Genetic Rescue

Analyzing Real Genetic Rescue Data

Ciphers and Data Visuals

From Tables to Graphs

Visualizing Song Data