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Drinking straws protrude from a glass in a illustration picture in Loughborough

Lesson Plan August 30 2019

Lesson plan: How student inventors can help solve the Earth's plastic problem

Use this NewsHour lesson plan to learn more about invention education and how students are creating solutions to help improve plastic pollution

Lesson Plan June 25 2019

Why this athlete invented a sports concussion sensor

Learn about a concussion sensor invention that helps athletes detect if they may have a concussion

Lesson Plan May 30 2019

Lesson plan: How teens deal with the spread of misinformation

Find out what young people really think about the news and the spread of misinformation using a variety of short videos produced by PBS NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs.

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center i

Lesson Plan May 28 2019

Lesson plan: How invention will land humans on Mars

Using the invention process, students will explore solutions to some of the problems facing the Mars mission and decide whether or not they are on board with expanding humankind’s reach in the universe

Lesson Plan March 15 2019

Girl coders crack glass ceiling | STEM Student Reporting Labs

In this lesson, students will learn about the engineering design process and use it to address the gender gap in STEM.

Lesson Plan January 09 2019

Lesson plan: The life and death stakes of health inequality

It has been long documented that African Americans have been historically under-served when it come…

Lesson Plan January 07 2019

Special Olympics' federal funding may be in jeopardy

Since its founding in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy, the …

Lesson Plan December 10 2018

Hawaii's fix for food deserts | STEM Student Reporting Labs

Watch the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs STEM video “Aquaponics Hawaiian Style” to understand the importance of organic and urban farming in small spacescreate a sustainable agricultural system

Lesson Plan December 09 2018

How the debt is stacked: student loans

More than 40 million Americans have debt from student loans, totaling around $1.3 trillion na…

Lesson Plan December 09 2018

Student Reporting Labs STEM Lesson Plan: How can Hawaiian land be used after 100 years of sugarcane monocropping?

The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the concepts of monocropping and s…

Lesson Plan August 26 2018

Lesson plan: How inventions are saving sea turtles

Students will research different ways to curb poaching of sea turtles and design their own invention to help protect endangered species.

Lesson Plan August 13 2018

Lesson plan: Solar invention makes safety and production levels shine

Hit the lights, please! In this lesson, students will learn about emerging technologies that are bringing new light sources to remote, poor areas of the world. Students will then invent their own light source using the steps of the invention process and share it via social media using #PBSInvention

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