Free, Interdisciplinary Lessons
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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!
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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
Galactic Polymath Learning Tools
Jobviz Career Explorer
A starting point for students to explore 1,000 job possibilities
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.
Lions, Ligers, and Pizzlies
An active, student-centered dive into what hybrids are and why they matter.
Part of: Hybrid Zones
Chickadee Foraging Frenzy!
Students in groups of 3-4, will play a natural selection-inspired memory game that puts them in a hybrid zone. They will try to forage to survive the winter in 3 environments.
Part of: Hybrid Zones
Making sense of hybridization and evolution
Students visualize their own gameplay data and engage in discussions prompted by video clips featuring 3 researchers. They will synthesize all that has been learned about hybridization, climate change, and evolution.
Part of: Hybrid Zones
Heard that Bird?
A media-rich interactive presentation, asking students to follow along with scientists and identify bird sounds in pop culture.
Part of: Heard That Bird
Crafting Better Questions (feat. Ethnobotanist Rose Bear Don’t Walk)
Asking questions is fundamental to science, but how easy is it? Students will follow a young scientist and build their capacity to ask creative, interesting, higher-level questions.
Part of: SciJourneys
Weaving Hypotheses (feat. Biomechanical Engineer Ritu Raman)
Hypothesis is a fancy word for a potential answer to a question. Students will learn about cutting-edge biomechanical research as they connect hypotheses to their everyday experiences.
Part of: SciJourneys