Workshops & Webinars

Life in a Living Pond

Building Confidence Using CRISPR with Biotechnical Lab Skills

Exploring OpenSciEd Elementary from Carolina

Smithsonian Science for the Classroom: A Force to Be Reckoned With: Using Hands-On and Literacy to Build Elementary Students’ Understanding of Forces

Leave Your Print: Basic Fingerprinting

The Case of The Murdered Mayor – Solve a Forensic Case Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

Workshops

Life in a Living Pond

April 1, 2025

Building Confidence Using CRISPR with Biotechnical Lab Skills

April 1, 2025

Exploring OpenSciEd Elementary from Carolina

March 25, 2025

Smithsonian Science for the Classroom: A Force to Be Reckoned With: Using Hands-On and Literacy to Build Elementary Students’ Understanding of Forces

March 21, 2025

The Case of The Murdered Mayor – Solve a Forensic Case Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

October 31, 2024

Modeling DNA to Protein: Go Hands on with Protein Synthesis and Mutation

October 31, 2024

Webinars

Cardiovascular System: The Heart of the (Subject) Matter

April 13, 2026

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Webinar: Bio-Ready America: Advancing Biotech Education through CTE Pathways

February 17, 2026

Student Agency Webinar

Webinar: Cultivating Student Agency with Driving Question Boards

February 13, 2026

high school biology class

Webinar: Teaching Science of Reading in Science Class

January 6, 2026

A Classroom Model for Teaching Natural and Artificial Selection on Your Schedule

January 5, 2024

Webinar: Student-Designed Ecosystem Experiments in Middle Grades

February 23, 2023

In-Booth Demos

Leave Your Print: Basic Fingerprinting

November 1, 2024

Sparking Curiosity Using Vernier Science Education ® Sensors

March 15, 2024

Just Passing Through

March 23, 2023

This simple microscale electrolysis activity yields 2 pure diatomic gases, hydrogen and oxygen, from water in a petri dish. With the addition of Bogen universal indicator solution to the reaction, pH color changes help students understand what is happening at each electrode in the petri dish.

Petri Dish Electrolysis Activity

February 24, 2023

Cow Eye Dissection

February 23, 2023

Strawberry DNA Extraction

February 22, 2023

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Teacher is sitting at the table in her classroom with her primary school students. They have built a car from recycled objects and crafts equipment and are testing that it works.

Hands-on Plus! Driving Student Centered Learning with Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™

March 17, 2023

Crosscutting Concepts: Using a Familiar Perspective to Understand Your World

March 17, 2023

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CTE Forensics Buying Guide

March 16, 2023

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Decomposition by Physarum polycephalum

March 7, 2023

Kudzu vine covers everything in its path.

Invasion! Invasive Species Activity

March 7, 2023

This stream is clearly in an urban environment, but there is riparian vegetation and a low, gentle bank. Further testing (chemical, biodiversity) would be needed to classify it. (Some may correctly identify this as an example of urban stream restoration.)

Urban Stream Syndrome

February 27, 2023

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