Reactions in Chemistry: Chemistry and the Environment

This program introduces the chemistry of the environment. It addresses selected topics such as water quality and purification, recycling, and the hole in the ozone layer. Bringing the students to awareness of these topics helps them understand important issues in the world around them. In studying chemistry, environmental studies or anything else, the classroom climate is an important issue as well, and the teacher can influence it a great deal.

Reactions in Chemistry: Chemistry at the Interface

In this workshop, cutting–edge technologies are presented, where chemistry is at the interface with other disciplines: tissue engineering, deciphering of the human genome, and agricultural resources for new materials. The future of technology is incorporated into the chemistry classroom, motivating the students with exciting real–world applications and contributing to teaching. The workshop ends with a discussion: What is quality in teaching and how does it influence chemistry students and teachers?

Teaching High School Science: Introduction

This course is the Introductory video to the Teaching High School Science SERIES. This SERIES will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. Showing science classrooms around the country, the modules cover topics in life science, physical science, Earth and space science, and integrated science. The videos also show a range of teaching techniques and student/teacher interaction.

Teaching High School Science: Thinking Like Scientists

The Teaching High School Science course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. This video contains classroom footage and new footage of scientists in the field explain and illustrate the concept of inquiry. 

Teaching High School Science: Chemical Reactions

The Teaching High School Science course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course students in a ninth-grade Principles of Science and Technology class formulate and explore their own questions about a chemical reaction.

Teaching High School Science: Investigating Crickets

This course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course, ninth-grade biology students design and conduct experiments about crickets.

Teaching High School Science: Exploring Mars

This course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course, students in an eleventh-grade integrated science class explore how the Mars landscape may have formed.

Teaching High School Science: The Physics of Optics

This course will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. In this course, an eleventh and twelfth grade physics class looks at light, lenses, and the human eye.

Earth Science: Soil Formation

Join three soil scientists as they use real-world examples and demonstrations to share their knowledge of the outermost layer of the earth. In this course, Dr. Andy Kurtz of Boston University, Dr. Oliver Chadwick of the University of California, and Dr. Elissa Levine of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center explore the formation and composition of soil. Earth Science: Soil Formation is made up of short video segments from a more in-depth Annenberg Media production found in the course Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science - Earth's Solid Membrane: Soil.

Annenberg Media’s Earth and Space Science series is a collaborative project created in conjunction with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Earth Science: Plate Tectonics

Geologists Dr. Andy Kurtz and Dr. Keith Klepeis reveal the inner workings of our planet that explain the movement of tectonic plates. They focus on the groundbreaking discoveries of the past and modern methods used to study the Earth's layers. Teachers Keedar Whittle and Joe Reilly are also featured as they explore seismic waves and flowing solids with their students. This course, Earth Science: Plate Tectonics, is made up of short video segments from a more in-depth Annenberg Media production found in the course Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science - Journey to the Earth's Interior.

Annenberg Media’s Earth and Space Science series is a collaborative project created in conjunction with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.