Road Salt and Salt Sculptures

Like many other towns and cities in North America, my town's maintenance crews are pouring road salt and sand at a seemingly frenetic pa...

Apply Today for a National Geographic Teaching Adventure

National Geographic Education is currently accepting applications for what looks like an awesome opportunity for twenty-five K-12 teachers i...

Short Lessons About the Winter Solstice

Morrison sniffing the snow.  Tomorrow is the winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere. If you're looking for some short explanati...

GeoStories - Map-based Stories from National Geographic

GeoStories are short, map-based stories featured on National Geographic Education. The stories combine text, maps, and pictures to tell a s...

A Brief History of Skiing Around the World - And the Physics of Skiing

Over the last couple of weeks whenever I drive around my town I see more snow accumulating on the mountains. This weekend the lifts will ope...

An Interactive Map of Rising Sea Levels

The October issue of National Geographic includes a feature about glacial meltdown. An interactive map of rising sea levels complements the...

Coral Reefs and Math

This evening I stumbled upon a set of National Geographic illustrations depicting coral reef food webs . Students can scroll through the set...

Live Lessons from Epic Failures

This afternoon at 1pm ET National Geographic is hosting a Google+ Hangout On Air with three adventurers and scientists who will share their...

How to Identify Individual Elephants - An Activity In Observing Differences

A couple of months ago I shared some information about Elephant Voices . I revisited Elephant Voices this morning after the Google Science F...

What Is Needed for 7 Billion People?

Earlier today I shared three ways to look at the world as a village . Those infographics try to help us see the world in numbers that we can...

How Fireworks Work - Video

Happy Independence Day to all of my fellow Americans. Probably many of you will be enjoying fireworks displays this evening. If you or or ch...

Short Lessons On the Reason for Seasons

Good evening from Maine where I just watched the sunset on the longest day of the year (in terms of amount of sunlight). Earlier today on Go...

Timelines of Exploration

This year National Geographic is celebrating 125 years of publishing pictures and stories from explorations all over the world. One of the w...

Elephants in the Classroom

In National Geographic's video section I recently found this cute and interesting video about elephant communication. The video feature...

Harnessing the Power of Wind - A National Geographic Interactive Lesson

National Geographic has a neat little interactive activity designed to help people understand how wind turbines generate power. Harness the...

National Geographic Explains Fracking

Last fall I drove across North Dakota and I'm going back next month to deliver a keynote for NDATL's annual conference . Because Nor...

National Geographic's Tools for Adventure Introduces Students to GIS

National Geographic Education has a nice interactive activity for introducing students to GIS and using maps to interpret information. Maps:...

50 Years of Solar System Exploration & 10 Good Resources for Learning About Space

National Geographic and Bill Nye the Science Guy hosted a panel discussion with NASA scientists. The panel discussed the history of major de...

125 Years of Exploration in Pictures

The National Geographic Society turns 125 years old later this month. One of the things they've done to mark the occasion is publish gal...

How to Make a Meerkat

National Geographic Education has a fun puppet building activity that I recently Stumbled Upon . Build a Meerkat is a lesson designed for s...