Teaching Tools

Explore our selection of high-quality teaching tools designed to enhance understanding of the scientific process and its reliability.

Our goal is to allow teachers to quickly and effectively sample a series of outstanding free teaching materials before committing their valuable time to any of them.

Our resources cover essential topics, including those on the list below. Click on these links for a brief introduction to a valuable resource, plus a sampler: an excerpt on the topic described.

• Making curricula maximally accessible for busy teachers
• Teaching scientific thinking
• Teaching that science often involves making inferences that are based on circumstantial evidence: “Mystery boxes”
• Teaching how science produces evidence through experiments
• Teaching how science can explore questions about the past, without experiments 
• Teaching the difference between those questions that can and cannot be addressed by science
• Teaching even 5 year-olds how to argue productively, like scientists
• Teaching the critical role of peer review in science
• Teaching how scientists determine the safety of medical treatments through clinical trials
• Teaching why the textbook description of science is much too simple.
• Teaching how new scientific tools and techniques advance science 
• Teaching that science can sometimes produce a major change in how we view the world
• Teaching how to distinguish misinformation from science
• A resource for teaching how scientists traced infectious diseases to microbes