This week, we learned …
A teenager watches a movie, ably managing skill #3, managing her assignments, workload, and deadlines.
Photograph by Kitra Cahana, National Geographic
Our Learning Framework can help develop those skills!
This debris-covered beach actually washed up on the Swan Islands, Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea.
Photograph by Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic
How did all that trash get to an uninhabited island?
These insects from Pakistan have gone to California … to help fight a citrus infestation.
Photograph by David Littschwager, National Geographic
Help support some of our favorite insects—bees—by building a bee hotel!
These Peruvian first-graders are stressing about grades.
Photograph by Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic
Help your students make the grade with our Common Core ELA resources.
Taste buds hide inside papillae, the pale dots made visible here by blue food coloring.
Photograph by Brian Finke, National Geographic
What is sensory substitution?
Koalas are under threat from injury (like this fella), habitat loss, and now, a sexually transmitted disease.
Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic
Put GIS in action to help save koalas.
How do engineers get those balloons to go to the right place?
These young women are being held at Ellis Island. They were among thousands deemed “undesirable emigrants” to be taken back to their country of origin by the steamship company that brought them. We don’t know where these women were from.
Photograph courtesy Library of Congress. Public domain
What bureaucracy did immigrants face at Ellis Island?
How do you use Roman numerals? Find out here.
This beautiful little salmon has an uphill battle against climate change and habitat degradation.
Photograph by Bianca Lavies, National Geographic
You won’t believe the source of the world’s most sustainable salmon.
Illustration by Emily M. Eng, National Geographic
Do classroom pets foster empathy and compassion among your students? Does yawning?