PRISM News

Preparing educators as leaders in New Jersey’s climate education initiative

A math teacher at Discovery Charter School will get to broaden STEM learning opportunities for her students through her work with a fellowship program.

Bringing outstanding teachers together to explore innovative STEM teaching practices and share what they learn with others

Ms. Cara Johnson took a day to get in touch with her students and fill them in on the exciting experiences she was having with PRISM at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Panama rainforest.

A new study has concluded that North America’s bird population has shrunk by nearly 3 billion in the past half-century, meaning there are 25 percent fewer birds in the United States and Canada than there were in 1970.

Extreme climate change has arrived in America

Readorium is a web-based intervention that supports students in grade 3 to 8 as they read nonfiction scientific texts and supplements classroom curricula aligned with NGSS.

Many people have incorrect and unpleasant notions of lizards, so I like to show them how really lovely lizards are.

If you are yearning for an unforgettable experience, take a trip to Bhutan!

The relationships between predators and their prey are fundamental to understanding food webs, yet these connections are very difficult to study in detail.

Walking through the gorgeous rainforest, I had a much more vivid understanding of all of the hardships the men encountered as they tried to dig through the short distance to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as they were building the amazing Panama Canal.