Take your students to the world’s most extreme environment with this curriculum. As they investigate Antarctica, they will also learn about world climate, day and night cycles, ocean circulation, animal adaptation, and scientists working “in the field.”

These teaching case materials show practicing physicians and infectious disease specialists studying the origins and impacts of pathogens.

Pick one activity, one article—or use all units to teach your students about plants, arthropods, or both. This curriculum teaches kids about the natural world by taking them into backyards, gardens, vacant lots, and even cracks in the sidewalk to practice observation, identification, and analysis.

Have you ever wondered how the weather in your area compares with weather in other regions across the United States? This interactive tool allows you to compare weather variables, from multiple locations, over periods of days, weeks, or months.

Do your students think the age of exploration is over? Show them the shocking truth: the age of exploration has barely just begun at the ocean floor! Introduce your students to the incredible under water environment of the deep sea vents.

Resources to help students understand everything from basic dinosaur biology and evolution, to the tools and methods of modern paleontology.

Explore the concepts that underlie the study of the stars and other heavenly bodies, and how astrophysicists analyze their distant light for clues to their physical and chemical properties. This collection sets out the fundamentals and demonstrates them in a set of articles, activities, and reference lists for all ages.

These teaching case materials show the fieldwork of an international team of scientists working to provide Bangladeshi leaders the tools they need to understand and minimize geologic risks.

High school ecology curriculum that uses real scientific data to link everyday human impacts to ecological principles.

Bolivia’s diversity of animal and plant life is among the greatest in the world. Learn why the country has designated more than 17 percent of its land as protected areas.

These materials support student investigations of a virtual journey to the Moon in the Hayden Planetarium, or your own classroom.

Climb aboard this virtual expedition along an unknown stretch of the Pacific Ocean’s Juan de Fuca Ridge to see if you can find a deep sea vent.

This curriculum is designed to help professional development leaders work with teachers on NGSS-aligned curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

With these resources, students can explore real data to see for themselves how Earth’s water is changing.

A series of videos that paint a picture of what it looks like to use literacy strategies to support students’ science content learning in the classroom.

These curricular unit plans help students explore and understand climate change with particular attention to the effect of climate change on the polar regions.

This medical anthropology course will provide students with a humanistic perspective on health care and disease.

A series of online investigations featuring scientific discoveries from Museum’s experts. Science Explorations is a collaboration between the Museum and Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, created to promote science literacy among students in grades 3 through 10.

These activities help students in grades 3-8 discover how everyday objects and architectural elements can be used to study different cultures.