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The Sound Science Fellowship is a partnering fellowship between the National Center for Science Education and museum educators, informal educators, and higher education faculty who share our mission and vision.
The text reads: #MySciJourney. Science in not linear. Illustration showing steps of the scientific process and the various orders and directions the steps can go in.
Text: DataWISE is NCSE's new tool designed to help students sort fact from fiction. Imagery: Cover of a science fiction novel featuring extraterrestrials heating up Earth with some sort of space device.
Text: Sound Science Fellowship. A research and service initiative for academics who share our passion for improving science education. Application deadline: Friday, September 19. Imagery is for visual appeal: A false green hellebore, and a group of microscopic rotifers.
Graphical art for a lesson set. The text reads: The Origin (and Conservation) of a Species. What is a species and why is it so difficult to define?
Graphic flyer for the podcast episode. The text reads: Safeguarding Sound Science: Climate Change Edition. Bonus Episode. Today's Forecast: Climate Change, Trusted Sources, and a Sprinkling of Local Relevance. John Cook, Samantha Harrington. Imagery: Headshots of John Cook and Samantha Harrington
2025 Friends of Darwin and Friends of the Planet: CLEO Institute Vanderbilt's Evolutionary Studies Initiative Kim Cobb Randolph M. Nesse Katie Hinde John Toohey-Morales Image is headshots of Kim Cobb, Randolph M. Nesse, Katie Hinde, and John Morales, and group photos of the CLEO Institute and Vanderbilt's Evolutionary Studies Initiative.
American voters who support teaching children about global warming in schools: 77%
Episode 7 of Safeguarding Sound Science: Hope in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Youth Activism and Leadership
Safeguarding Sound Science, episode 6: Making Every Classroom a Climate Classroom with guests Bertha Vazquez and Amanda Townley.
Safeguarding Sound Science: Episode 5. Headshots of the guests, Bernadette Woods Plack and Edward Maibach. Title: Today's Forecast: Climate Change, Trusted Sources, and a Sprinkling of Local Relevance.
Zombie Theories Must Die! A Conversation with Climate Communicator J. Marshall Shepherd.
Graphic for Safeguarding Sound Science: Climate Change Edition, Episode 3 with headshots of guests. Melissa Lau, Science Teacher and NCSE Teacher Ambassador. Katie Worth, Award-Winning Journalist. Miseducation in the US: How Our Kids Are Too Often Denied Climate Facts. Now available where you listen to your podcasts.
My COAST. Summerland Key, Florida, April 13-16, 2025, Application deadline: March 21. Decorative elements with coral reefs, starfish, sea turtles, and an eagle ray.
Safeguarding Sound Science: Climate Change. New podcast launches March 12. Graphics of the podcast cover image on a phone screen play/pause controls.
Feb 12, 7 ET. A Lioness Walks into an Orca: How Stories Enhance Science Education. Darwin Day Webinar with Katie Hinde. Sponsored by NCSE and NABT. A drawing of a lioness and an orca. Decorative drawings of a pitcher plant, flower of a sundew, and salamander tracks.
Star Trek Pod Crawl: Supporting Science Education. Podcast icons for each participating podcast.
Photo of Richard Alley with a quote by him that reads, “Solving the twin problems of climate and energy could make humans energy-rich for the first time in history, giving us the power to build a better life for everyone, while preserving much of Earth for other species and avoiding the dire damages of climate change.” - Richard Alley
Three activists teenagers at the Climate of Hope conference. The kids are wearing a t-shirt reading "Climate of HOPE". The "O" in hope is a drawing of the Earth.
NCSE is coming to Long Beach, California! Teachers are invited to join us for a climate change workshop. Addressing Misconceptions About Science in the Digital Age. Saturday, January 18. Includes a $75 stipend. Imagery: Photo of teachers learning about climate change activity for students with a set of climate solutions cards. Decorative drawing of Catalina Island Mountain Mahogany.
Today we celebrate a very important December holiday: Kitzmas
Help us help teachers. NCSE is hiring! We're adding another Science Education Specialist onto our team! Application deadline: Friday, December 20. Photo is a group of teachers walking down a trail through a maritime forest filled with palmettos and trees covered in spanish moss. This is from a hands-on professional development session we recently facilitated in Georgia.
Honoring Riley Black, Kostas Kampourakis, Jonathan B. Losos, GMU’s Center for Climate Change Communication, Dawn J. Wright, and Lorne Trottier
The image reads: Are you sick of the constant attempts to deliverately mislead kids and the general public about science?! SAME. For 42 years, the National Center for Science Education has led the fight against interference in teaching accurate science. In 1982, physical anthropologist Eugenie Scott established NCSE to combat the ongoing attacks being made on science education by religious fundamentalists.
t-shirt design with drawings of various lifeforms. The text reads “My ancestors spent 3.8 billion years evolving out of the primordial ooze, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.
Lucy and her Origin Story.
Collage of our Friend of Darwin/Friend of the Planet awards recipents