Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP)

YouTube video by Galactic Polymath Practice observing birds and asking questions with 2 biologists!

Check out these #bird scientists showing how to be observant and ask good questions! 🤩🪶 Featuring Drs. Allison Johnson & Dai Shizuka, and some adorable Australian fairywrens! #NSF -funded research and #BroaderImpacts 🧪
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Mini-Unit: Fairywrens and the Art of Inquiry Spark your scientific thinking by observing cute Australian bird behavior! Fun, interactive videos feature real biologists and student inquiry & observation. Analyze the scientists' real data to get a...

This 👆 is part of our latest release "Fairywrens & the Art of Inquiry." Features 2 biologists modeling how scientists observe & ask questions. Connects to their developing research on how natural selection affects family size in an adorable group of #birds!
teach.galacticpolymath.com/units/en-US/18

Fairywrens - YouTube Videos related to our free unit: "Fairywrens and the Art of Inquiry" Check it out: https://teach.galacticpolymath.com/units/en-US/18

Who played Carmen Sandiego as a kid? You're gonna love our latest video series helping students be observant and ask good questions!
#NGSS #EduSky
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Stop Chasing Shiny Tech: Invest in Teachers if You Actually Want to Improve Education — Galactic Polymath We’re not going to fix education with more technology. Let’s reframe what innovation in education actually means. It doesn’t have to mean new tech. Sometimes, it means trusting teachers to lead.

THIS! 🔥👇
"We’re not going to fix education with more technology...
we’re putting too much emphasis on what looks innovative, and not enough on what’s actually effective."
#EduSky #EdTech
Wonderful guest blog by Michelle Blanchet of The Educators' Lab! 👏
www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/stop-ch...

When I began studying bird song 16 yrs ago, my daily experience of the world changed forever. Since then, I've wanted to help others get curious about croaks, chirps & whistles at the edge of their hearing. What's making that? Why? What are they saying? Plz check it out & share! 👇🐋🐦‍⬛🐸🔊 #EduSky

A graph showing rapid increase in class size from 0 in 12-2024 to 10,141 in 06-2025!

Aligned to NGSS standards Every lesson is built to meet Next Generation Science Standards — so you don’t have to worry about alignment or compliance. Our lessons promote easy collaboration with other subject teachers with these standards: - Common Core Math and ELA standards, - The C3 Social Studies Framework, - The UN Sustainable Development Goals

Woot!🎉 We've now passed 100 registered teachers with a combined class size of over 10,000 students!!🙋‍♀️🍎

Let's keep going! Teachers, get access to very high quality free #NGSS -aligned science resources developed with scientists for grades 6-college 👇 www.galacticpolymath.com/for-teachers #edusky

This is an excellent tool, I'm really happy to have contributed to its development! I think it will be especially useful for teaching #bioacoustics

This open access project is free to you thanks to NSF funding to @reichertfroglab.bsky.social, as well as several generous Indiegogo supporters including: @laurynbenedict.bsky.social‬, @kddlb.cl, @jessiectanner.bsky.social, @dmennill.bsky.social & @algrunwald.bsky.social Thank you all! #SaveNSF

Dive into Sound with SoundLab: A Free Tool for Acoustic Exploration — Galactic Polymath Ever wondered what a bird song looks like, or how to visually understand the different frequencies in your favorite music? That's where SoundLab comes in! SoundLab is a free, web-based app designed to...

Good news! After almost a year of development, we're so pleased to share SoundLab: An #openaccess tool for *seeing* & analyzing sounds. Intended as a teaching tool for middle school to college—introduce students to #bioacoustics & the science of sound 🧪🔊🐋🪶🎶🐦‍⬛
www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/dive-in...

A line plot showing rapid increase in total class size of Galactic Polymath (GP) users from 0 in November 2024 to 9,093 in mid-June, 2025. Lower plot shows bar graphs of how many users were created each month, with 18 in December, 45 in May 2025, and 15 so far this month.

Hey teachers! 👋 In the last 7 months, our collective classroom size has grown to 9,000 students! Let's get to 10k!📈 Please sign up for free and get access to 100+ teacher resources developed with scientists, thanks to NSF funding! #SaveNSF 🧪
🔗 www.galacticpolymath.com/for-teachers #EduSky #NGSS

a pound of beans would be a major source of protein. Keep in mind this is just an introduction to some big concepts about the relative carbon emissions of different foods

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

so sorry to hear your grant was terminated, but glad KBS is pitching in! Really hoping the proposed 50% cut to NSF doesn't go through!

Though our recent #NSF grant was terminated, the @datanuggets.bsky.social program still continues through support from the @kbslter.bsky.social and other sources! We're searching for future funding opportunities and will continue to help share authentic datasets and science stories with students!

The text reads: SUMMER EVENTS UPCOMING FOR TEACHERS. Grand Forks, North Dakota, June 17-18, Pages & Pathways Science of Learning Conference. Athens, Georgia, June 20, Using Authentic Phenomena to Engage Students in Evolution. Clio, Michigan, June 23, Michigan Association of Biology Teachers Conference. Nashville, Tennessee, July 11, Using Evidence and Practical Applications to Overcome Misconceptions About Evolution. Norman, Oklahoma, August 1, Teaching Climate Science: Practical Strategies for Engaging Classrooms. Image: A classroom of teachers exploring one of NCSE's classroom activities.

Teachers, we have lots of PD opportunities coming up for you this summer! Hope you can join us! All the various links with details and registration to each of these events can be found on our Linktree page - linktr.ee/ncse_science #ForTeachers #ProfessionalLearning #EduSky #NGSSchat

Environmental Impacts of Food Production What are the environmental impacts of food production? How do we reduce the impacts of agriculture on the environment?

it's not dietary impact--it's climate impact. The units are kg of carbon dioxide equivalents per kg of food. If you're speaking to the volume of foods in dishes, yes, this is simplified for young learners.

Learn more about the underlying data we used here
ourworldindata.org/environmenta...

411 views, 40 likes!

really well done! 👏 We gave your vid a like! A 10% like to view ratio is incredible. Wish the algorithm ranked that higher--it's so hard for anything remotely educational to reach a large audience on Youtube

How a lettuce becomes a salad (and isn't destroyed by pests) schoolhouse rock edition. 🧪 🌱 #AgSky

So stoked to announce this free, NSF-funded unit for middle school & above! Help your students build #dataliteracy & #climateliteracy as they dive into data from @ourworldindata.org! Developed w/ @scitalker.bsky.social at @unlincoln.bsky.social 🧪 #SaveNSF
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Environmental Impacts of Food Production What are the environmental impacts of food production? How do we reduce the impacts of agriculture on the environment?

This vid supports @galacticpolymath.com's "Future Foods" unit coming out tomorrow! The vid & lessons connect middle schoolers to underlying climate data using this awesome resource from @ourworldindata.org (by @hannahritchie.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social)
ourworldindata.org/environmenta...

YouTube video by Galactic Polymath Test your food carbon footprint knowledge! #sustainability

🍲🫘🐮🥬🐔🦐 ➡️ 🌎🌡️❓ Test your knowledge! Which foods release the most greenhouse gases during production from farm to table? 🧪
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The Backstory: Connecting academia to K-12 and making it all free — Galactic Polymath Since founding Galactic Polymath (GP), one of my biggest surprises has been how we’ve all accepted the idea that knowledge should be paid for. We’ve bought the multibillion dollar education publishing...

New blog + video about why I've spent the last 4 years w/ @galacticpolymath.com trying to connect academia to K-12 & how we're threatened by cuts at NSF🧪.

We need more #openaccess curriculum for all! #SaveNSF #EduSky
www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/the-bac...

wow you made that so quickly 😂 AI ftw

Bioinspired design as a tool for integrative STEM in the high school classroom — Galactic Polymath What kinds of approaches can teachers use to teach integrated STEM without leaving students behind?

🎉We have a new site & a blog! Dr. Emilie Snell-Rood kicking it off with a guest post about the Bioinspired Design unit we co-designed with U Minn researchers. Supports student redesigns of products using organisms' adaptations as inspiration! 🧪#SciEd 🍎
www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/bioinsp...

Office of the Director (OD) $4 Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) $5 Biological Sciences (BIO) $15 Engineering (ENG) $25 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) $34 Geosciences (GEO) $34 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) $35 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) $41 STEM Education (EDU) $590

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations

Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...

54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)

The next generation of scientists is being targeted.

#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

We love it! 🤩🐸
Great to see students diving into data in our Balancing Act unit based on @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's NSF funded research! #SaveNSF 🧪

Students listened to 🐸 calls and analyzed their spectrograms to learn about tradeoffs in nature: frogs can have long calls or frequent calls, not both! Then tried to figure out which call attracts more ladies.

Great lesson set called Balancing Act by Galactic Polymath! www.galacticpolymath.com

Pretty much every free lesson and video we've created has been funded by NSF. We are heartbroken for the labs that are losing funding, for the teachers and students that will miss out on future resources, & the American people who don't yet recognize what they will lose by defunding science🧪

I've put in ~60 hrs over the last 8 months trying to develop a free web tool for sound analysis & visualization. I get $0 from this. Every $80 we raise funds a skilled web dev for 1 hour to check off these tasks.

Despite all that's happening, we can still create nice things for the public good 🧪🔊🐦‍⬛

Two days left to support SoundLab: an #openaccess web app for visualizing & analyzing sounds. This will be a useful & fun tool for all, especially if you're a #bioacoustics researcher, a birdsong or music fan, or teach about sound waves! 🐸🐦‍⬛🐋
Small donations help!
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