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A Firsthand Understanding of Our Energy Landscape
Right now, this moment, as I type, off the top of my head, I can count at least 7 devices in my cubicle that require electrical energy in order to function. That’s not counting our office’s overhead...
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Big Data in the Classroom
NOVA recently launched the Cloud Lab—an online interactive that enables authentic student research with scientific data. NOVA Education celebrates the release of this third Lab with a special blog...
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The Cloud Lab: Your Personal Meteorologist
No matter where you live in the world, you’ve probably experienced a weather phenomenon that has left a lasting impression on you. Growing up in Boston, I have many winter memories of impending...
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Play a Game, Change the World
What if your students could create a molecular machine that might one day help save someone’s life—just by playing a game? Well, with the help of NOVA’s new RNA Lab, they actually can. The RNA Lab is...
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An interview with NOVA Labs’ Digital Content Producer Alex Rosenthal
Alex Rosenthal is a Digital Content Producer with the NOVA Labs team, and the brains behind the collection of four short-form educational videos developed specifically for the RNA Lab. The videos...
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Learn how to stay safe online with the Cybersecurity Lab
Students, like the rest of us, are using the internet more and more. And whenever they go online— to do school work, to chat with their friends, or anything else—they put themselves at risk of...
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Four Ways to Help Students Avoid Online Identity Theft
When we picture identity theft, we often imagine it occurring through the physical theft of objects that contain personally identifying information. A passport gets lost at the airport and ends up in...
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NOVA’s Evolution Lab: Adventures in the Tree of Life
“Evolution isn’t just a story about where we came from. It’s an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re presumably a...
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This Scientist Learned By Doing Science and Your Students Can Too
The following article is the first of a two-part series on teaching authentic science inquiry. Despite being a die-hard science geek my entire life, I often found the lab sections of my science classes...
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Everything You Need to Teach Evolution
Evolution is the central unifying principle of biology and yet, it is an area of science that is rife with conflict. This conflict is purely societal and not scientific, and unfortunately there are...
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