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Explore the promise and challenges of bringing renewable energy generation to your community

Experiment with engineering in changing environmental conditions

Learn about the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and how people all over the world — of any age — can help

In this lesson plan, explore ways non-recyclable materials can be reused or repurposed instead

In this lesson plan, students will learn about — an innovative method in which nature inspires new inventions to solve some of the world's toughest problems

Learn how farm animals are improving energy output on solar farms and design their own device to improve a problem that relies on an eco-friendly solution

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

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

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

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