Carolina Biological Supply Company is committed to support parents, teachers, and school districts with learn-from-home resources during this challenging time. Explore the resources below for elementary and middle school students from Carolina’s Building Blocks of Science™ 3D, Innovators in Science, and Smithsonian Programs.
Whether you’re looking for a lesson plan, or a science experiment for your youngster, our education team has you covered.
Bring a Smithsonian Scientist into your classroom with Smithsonian Science How!
These free, interactive, live video webcasts take questions from your students while introducing them to science concepts and practices through the lens of Smithsonian research and experts. The shows provide opportunities for your students to interact via live polls and Q&A with the scientist.
Grades 3-8; optimized for students in grades 3-5
Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s children’s theater, Discovery Theater
Scientists take your questions
Complementary teaching resources
45 minutes long
Aligned with national science standards
Welcome to PestWorld for Kids, your home for bug facts and insect information! Explore the exotic world of bugs, arachnids and little critters. What do they look like up close, what do they eat, and what makes these fascinating creatures such pests? Enjoy a fun and educational journey into the world of pests!
Junior entomologists in grades K - 8 will discover fun information and learning activities, such as pest guides, a pest glossary, report writing center, science fair projects and interactive quizzes. Parents and teachers can access a library of pest lesson plans that support education standards from the National Science Teachers Association and National Council of Teachers of English.
To help educators during this time of coronavirus, we have pulled our most popular science lessons and are offering them for anyone to use for free. No account or login is needed! Mystery Science is the creator of the most popular science lessons in U.S. schools. We’ve curated this starter set of science lessons that you can use remotely or share with parents.
A citizen science app allowing volunteers in GLOBE countries to take observations and contribute to the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) community
A way to collect data to track changes in the environment in support of Earth system science research, and interpret NASA and other satellite data
An open data set available to scientists, and supporting students of all ages in doing real scientific research through the GLOBE Program