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Subject: Environmental Science

Get outside and discover the diversity of insect life in your neighborhood.

Make a home for a colorful community of microorganisms.

Model the carbon cycle and its principal reservoirs and flow rates using rice.

Build a simple wind generator.

A carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere changes the water beneath it.

Explore a famous environmental data set to learn about climate change.

Turn your kitchen trash into garden treasure.

What do you do if something looks odd in your data?

See why ocean acidification is giving some marine organisms shell shock.

Speed up geologic time with a sedimentary squeeze.

How does water volume change with temperature?

Make predictions about water temperature and salinity using tidal data.