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Galactic Polymath Mini-Unit Releases
Each unit has 2-6 lessons created through 100s of collaborative hours by scientists, teachers, artists, and filmmakers.
And they're all free!
Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions
How do we provide sustainable energy to communities?
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Balancing Act
Tradeoffs in frogs, humans, and other animals
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Hybrid Zones
Evolution's Testing Grounds
Heard That Bird
A Pop Culture Intro to Birding by Ear
SciJourneys
Building Resilience in Science
Pacific H2O
A Choose-Your-Own STEM Adventure
Photon Engineers
Tinkering with Light
Bioinspired Design
Looking to Biology for Better Solutions
Animal Collective
How group behavior can produce surprising problems...and solutions!
Electric Crystals
Exploring how crystal symmetry can power everyday life
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I Like That!
How perception, emotion, and cognition shape our preferences
Colorful Solutions
Chemical Engineering Dyes to Brighten Lives
Guardian Frogs of Borneo
Why Exceptions Matter in Biology and Everyday Life
Genetic Rescue to the Rescue
Preventing extinction through gene flow
Females singing to be heard
Challenging long-held assumptions about birdsong through data visualization
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Jobviz Career Explorer
A starting point for students to explore 1,000 job possibilities
Powering the Marae
Use this interactive web game to define a robust power mix for the fictional community at Punahiko Marae.
PacificH2O Interactive Web App
A Choose-Your-Own Adventure app that mediates a blended learning lab. Students identify & remove impurities in water samples as they embody different STEM career roles.
"Swimming in the Dark"
Run digital experiments to understand fish schooling.
"EchoSim" Echo Chamber Simulation
Explore how different human variables (like tolerance) affect social media networks.Galactic Polymath Videos
Galactic Polymath Individual Lessons
Free lessons to engage students in current research, real world problems, and interdisciplinary thinking.
Energy Everywhere
Explore how energy shows up in everyday life, the evolution of power demands throughout Aotearoa New Zealand’s history, and the factors that determine the price of electricity.
Part of: Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions
Punahiko Marae Power Lab
Students think like engineers to build model generators and learn how these devices scale up to power communities. Using our custom web app, work as a class to propose an optimal mix of energy sources.
Part of: Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions
Solar Origins
Understand conservation of energy and appreciate our Sun by learning how solar radiation produces wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and petrochemical energy.
Part of: Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions
Life is full of tradeoffs
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Explore tradeoffs between speed and endurance, size and survival of offspring and other examples in this data literacy activity.
Part of: Balancing Act
Who will be the next top frog?
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Measuring frog call performance with sound data.
Part of: Balancing Act
Lions, Ligers, and Pizzlies
An active, student-centered dive into what hybrids are and why they matter.
Part of: Hybrid Zones