Each February, Citizen Scientists Go to the Birds – And That’s A Good Thing!

This February, people worldwide will turn their eyes to the skies, their backyards, and local parks to count birds as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National…

STEMs in the Garden

When the nonprofit REAL School Garden introduced school gardens to 90 elementary schools, they saw increases of 12-15% in students' standardized test scores, with the largest gains in science. While your students may have outgrown their elementary days, the advantages…

The Straight (line) Talk on Standard Curves

What is a Standard Curve? A standard curve, in scientific experiments, is a graph that shows the relationship between known concentrations of a substance (usually plotted on the x-axis) and a measurable response (plotted on the y-axis) such as absorbance,…