¡Aprende cómo escribir un ensayo expositivo con opinión, razón y evidencia mientras creas tu propia tira cómica!

Con el superhéroe Capitán Opinión y sus compañeras Razón y Evidencia, el espectador se embarca en una divertida aventura en el mundo de las opiniones y la importancia de sustentarlas con muchas razones y evidencias.

Objetivo de Aprendizaje:
Hacer que los estudiantes escriban un ensayo expositivo que establezca una idea central en una oración temática; incluye oraciones de apoyo con hechos simples, detalles y explicaciones, y contiene una declaración final.

This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explores genetic modification of salmon and possible consequences.

¡Aprende sobre la estructura y función de los organismos vivos dibujando un animal imaginario en el programa de juego de subir al escenario, SUPERVIVENCIA ANIMAL!

Los espectadores se convierten en participantes de un programa de juegos y tienen el desafío de dibujar un animal imaginario que podría vivir y sobrevivir en el desierto, el océano o la tundra ártica. Al dibujar el animal imaginario, los participantes escriben dos estructuras distintas y una función para cada una de las estructuras que lo ayudan a sobrevivir.

Objetivo de Aprendizaje:
Comparar las estructuras y funciones de diferentes especies que les ayudan a vivir y sobrevivir en un ambiente específico.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter.

This video segment adapted from NOVA reveals how junk DNA helped solve an evolutionary mystery: Why do certain species of fruit flies have wing spots while others don't?

The peacock provides a classic example of sexual selection, the force behind nature's extravagances. From Evolution: "Why Sex?"

This video segment from the Nevada Department of Wildlife looks at tarantulas' survival skills and their habitat.

Bonnie Chen builds on students' prior knowledge of mutations to lead her class through a simulation of wading birds feeding.

Marilyn Havlik leads students through a simulation of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle to develop their understanding of population genetics.

This interactive activity from A Science Odyssey offers a historic tour of 20th century home technologies.

In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, learn how tectonic plate movement is responsible for building mountains, such as the Wrangell and St. Elias Mountains.

This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain shows the relationship between tectonic boundaries and the locations of earthquake events and volcanoes around the world.

In this transcript of an interview filmed for Evolution: "Great Transformations," Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin describe the discovery and significance of some of their key fossil finds.

In this video adapted from Earth Island Institute, meet a high school student who educated her community about how a coal-burning power plant was contributing to asthma and other health problems there.

Why do teenagers act the way they do? This video segment from FRONTLINE: Inside the Teenage Brain explores the work scientists are doing to explain some of the mysteries of teenage behavior.

In this video adapted from Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative, meet a high school student who worked to enact a state law to make cosmetics safer, after she learned they contained toxic chemicals linked to cancer.

Watch the ZOOM cast discover which insulator -- newspaper or aluminum foil -- is better at keeping an ice cube frozen longer.

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members show you how to make your very own electroscope. You can use it to find out if an object is electrically charged.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, learn about the importance of creating a model as the CyberSquad designs a giant Trojan Ducky that will help them enter a fort without being noticed.