Supporting Teachers
We help students overcome common misconceptions about climate change, evolution, and the nature of science.
NCSE's lesson sets were developed with the help of practicing science teachers and tackle the most common and pervasive climate change, evolution, and nature of science misconceptions that students bring to the classroom.
Check out our Climate Change Story Shorts!
Learn how to use our DataWISE tool!
Check out our Evolution Story Shorts!
Dive into our Sound Science Teacher Toolkit!More resources to help you teach climate change, evolution, and the nature of science effectively.
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Download and print our BRAVE (Be Empathetic, Respect Others, Ask Questions, Value Mistakes, Ease Tensions) poster for your classroom.
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NCSE has recruited middle and high school teachers from all over the US to field-test and assess new nature of science, evolution, and climate change lessons currently in development.
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Have you heard the joke about the museum guide who, when aske
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For Earth Week 2021, NCSE is partnering with Raven Baxter (also known as Raven the Science Maven) — TikTok sensation and multi-talented Ph.D.
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At NCSE, we design all our curricular resources around the co
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How quickly we forget. When the coronavirus pandemic started, public health experts warned that vaccines were unlikely to become available for years. Having vaccines within 18 months was considered a wildly optimistic estimate.
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How would you feel if you visited your favorite news website
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On January 28, 2021, The New York Times Magazine cover story, by Brooke Jarvis, was entitled: “What Can COVID-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?”
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Starting in February 2021, each month we shine a light on an aspect of science that is often misunderstood or misrepresented. Read all our Misconception of the Month articles.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus updat
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus updat
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus updat
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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NCSE asked scientists, educators, authors, and science fans to write brief essays answering the question "Why teach evolution?" The result — NCSE's Why Teach Evolution essays — demonstrate the critical importance of teaching evolution in our nation's school
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Designed primarily for learners ages eight and older, To Lose A Tooth presents an evolutionary puzzle focused on human teeth. Participants will explore how natural selection, sexual selection, gene flow, and isolation result in genetic diversity.
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A lone but confident teacher stands in front of the classroom. She is teaching an amazing lesson about climate change and the planet’s future. A hand shoots up into the air, pumping with excitement, and she thinks, “Yes, yes ...
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There is no shortage of material available to teachers–but it's not always easy to find resources that are free and of the highest quality. We've done the sifting and sorting for you!
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Climate is always changing, so what’s happening today is just normal, right?
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This blog installment focuses on perhaps the most well known example of natural selection in action (and a topic we have covered in the blog before): The peppered moth (Biston betularia).
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Natural selection is part of every state’s high school science standards, but that doesn’t mean we teachers are always successful in connecting our students with the topic.
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I’m often approached by teachers looking for new ways to connect their students to climate change.
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The prospect of climate change is daunting. Learning about it can be disheartening, even depressing, for students. As a result, even students who learn the basics of climate science may still fail to appreciate that humans can take actions to reduce climate changes and its impacts.
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There is virtually unanimous scientific agreement about climate change. Yet due to both the inherent complexity of the topic and the social controversies surrounding it, confusion and doubt often persist.
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Valerie First is a docent at the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens, in Sanford, Florida, and the Orlando Science Center.
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Recently, I was invited to the White House’s Back-to-School Climate Education Event. Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, head of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), encouraged us educators to help our students understand the “dynamics of our planet”.
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A couple of months ago, Minda Berbeco asked me to review a new book that teaches evolution to preschoolers.
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Not every educator experiences pushback when teaching about climate change. When it does happen, though, it can be surprising, particularly for someone who has been teaching for many years. Jana Dean is a middle school science teacher in Olympia, Washington.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote here about C.W., a new environmental science teacher in rural Pennsylvania who was criticized by local parents when he attempted to teach climate change using materials from the book and
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I’m writing this blog from NCSE HQ and, dear readers, there is something in the air here other than awesome ideas. My histamines are in overload. My eyes are watering, my head is a cotton ball, and my nose is a faucet. As a result, I am feeling punchy, too.
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One of my most memorable interactions when I first started at NCSE was a conversation I had at an educator conference with a
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In my job as a programs and policy director here at NCSE, I hear a lot from educators who are interested in teaching about climate change, but don’t know where to start.
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When I was a graduate student, I had the ambitious idea that in addition to my regular teaching load, classes, and research, I wanted to teach a course on evolution that centered on Darwin’s Origin of Species.