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Lesson Plan March 14 2024

What is invention education? Explainer and lesson plans where students are the inventors!

Teach students how to design their own inventions that help their communities

Daily Video August 08 2017

Invasive parakeets threaten Hawaii's ecosystem

Rose-ringed parakeets have multiplied by the thousands on the Hawaiian island of Kauai since the 1960s, when a few parakeets kept as pets escaped. The birds have since caused problems by damaging native plants and farm crops.

Daily Video July 19 2017

America's National Parks: Mammoth archaeological discovery made in Channel Islands National Park

Watch this video about America's National Parks by Student Reporting Labs

Lesson Plan February 01 2017

Lesson plan: Invent your own device to battle invasive species

Stunning fish who were once kept as pets are destroying Florida’s coral reef ecosystem. In this PBS NewsHour lesson plan, students will learn how scientists are using a new invention, a lionfish zapping robot, to combat this harmful invasive species. They will then create their own invention to ward off invasive species in their community or region.

Daily Video August 26 2016

Lionfish-zapping robot offers solution to invasive species

Invasive lionfish have devastating effects on native species and ecosystems in the Western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, but robotic technology offers a new way to stem their spread.

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