Many field instructors cite this Exploration Routine as their most effective teaching tool. It helps students develop a mindset of curiosity, and provides language tools to actively and directly engage with the natural world. These are important skills students can carry away and apply in any natural setting. Using this routine makes any field experience more student- and nature-centered. After introducing it, instructors can ask students to apply the routine to deepen their understanding of the natural world during any part of a field experience.

During the activity, students pick up a natural object, such as a leaf, and make “I notice…” statements out loud with a partner, then share some of their observations with the group. They do the same with “I wonder…” questions, and with “It reminds me of…” connections. Then, students practice using these tools while exploring whatever they find interesting. This simple routine can help students get beyond seeing nature as a “green blur,” and lead them to never be bored in nature again.

In this video segment from The Secret of Life Teaching Modules: "Nothing to Sneeze At: Viruses," watch as a virus attacks a cell, and learn how the immune system reacts to this onslaught.

This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of the automobile and the development of mass production.

This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of nylon.

This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey considers modern technology's impact on society.

Learn where diamonds originate and how inclusions trapped within diamonds help geologists determine their age in this video segment from Nature.

In this video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Michelle Thaller introduces the world of infrared light and demonstrates how infrared cameras allow us to see more than what the naked eye can perceive.

This video segment adapted from NOVA illustrates why carbon is at the center of life on Earth. It also asks whether carbon-based life might exist on other planets.

This video segment from NOVA: "The Sea Behind the Dunes" explores the community of organisms that exists in the New England tidal marsh.

The document presented here accompanies the documents in the science curriculum collection. It provides a Goal Statement, Guiding Principles and Unit Introductions for Science K-5, Middle/Junior High, Physical Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. The document also identifies key participants for the Virgin Islands Department of Education Science Curriculum Workgroup.

This animation from KET's distance learning physics course demonstrates the mathematical formula for a scientific law as it applies to light.

Students use media resources and an in-class investigation to explore the types of energy within different types of systems. They also use the formulas for kinetic and potential energy to examine the path of a projectile.

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast builds a suspension bridge from a couple of chairs, some cardboard, and rope.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a scientist explains the unexpected heat source fueling widespread volcanic activity on Io, a moon of Jupiter that many had previously assumed to be frozen.

In this interactive activity from ChemThink, learn how ionic bonds are formed and how an ionic bond structure is represented by its formula.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, follow scientists in their quest to understand how stable elements are made and how to create the elusive element 114.

This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, provides a portrait of IŰ__ŒóíŠupiaq whaling as a community activity, as told through the story of one hunt.

In this video from Science City, meet a forensic scientist. She describes the steps to recover and analyze fingerprints to help solve crimes. She also discusses common attributes between art and science.

Science experts in the U.S. Virgin Islands presents Keeping our Coastlines Clean a U.S. Virgin Islands Marine Debris Curriculum Adapted from Oregon Sea Grant Marine Debris STEAMSS curriculum and NOAA curricula "Turning the Tide on Trash" and "Talking Trash and Taking Action."

The curriculum includes 15 spotlights, which highlight USVI-specific marine debris research, local researchers, community-led prevention efforts and natural disaster impacts from marine debris, specifically Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which impacted the U.S. Virgin Islands community as two category 5 storms in September 2017. Users can review and utilize lessons aligned to Next Generation Science Standards beginning on page 9 of the document.

This video adapted from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department describes how humans are helping restore safe nesting grounds for the critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle to ensure its successful repopulation.