In this lesson produced by NOVA Education, students present their innovative ideas and strategies. Importantly, students focus on tailoring their presentations to particular audiences.

As doctors and researchers continue to learn more about the relationships among genes, the environment, and diseases, they are making advances in predicting the likelihood of a person developing certain diseases as well as discovering innovations in the prevention and treatment of diseases. These are enhancing the notion of personalized medicine, which aims to customize an individual's health care by tailoring decisions and treatments based on his or her genetic information. The sequencing of the human genome was the first step in what many hope will be a new era in medicine. As in many medical advances, there are a number of ethical, legal, and social issues involved in personal genomics.

Explore the evidence of evolution with this interactive worksheet based off of NOVA’s Evolution Lab. This resource is designed to be completed while playing through the Evolution Lab game and contains multiple choice and free response questions and covers Mission 1 of the Evolution Lab game with embedded videos. Mission 1 introduces students to natural selection and how to interpret and create phylogenetic trees.

Explore the evidence of evolution with this interactive worksheet based off of NOVA’s Evolution Lab. This resource is designed to be completed while playing through the Evolution Lab game and contains multiple choice and free response questions and covers Mission 6 of the Evolution Lab game with embedded videos. Mission 6 explores human evolution over the course of the past 6-7 million years using both fossil evidence and DNA analysis.

Students learn to generate ideas for innovation using two different approaches in this lesson plan from NOVA Education. In the first approach, ideas are generated based on inspiration drawn from existing materials and found objects. In the second approach, students generate ideas based on the needs of different user demographics around the world. All ideas generated by these two approaches contribute to the design thinking process for creating innovative solutions to the world's complex problems.

In this NOVA Lab, students will learn how scientists use sophisticated instruments and data to study and predict the development of Earth’s powerful storms. Students will learn about cloud types, investigate the progression of Hurricane Sandy, and analyze data to reconstruct the paths of three tropical cyclones. Finally, students will use the NASA Worldview tool to investigate recent conditions for a region. Students predict how storms may develop or change using data, such as water vapor, cloud top temperature and pressure, and land temperature.

In this media-rich lesson plan, students explore how to keep their digital lives safe, spot cyber scams, and learn the basics of coding from NOVA Labs. The lesson begins with students watching the Cybersecurity 101 video and discussing the online safety measures that they currently take. Next, students make predictions about online safety best practices, complete the Level 1 challenges of the NOVA Cybersecurity Lab, and compare the best practices from the game with their predictions. Students reconvene for direct instruction on the best practices and key computer science terms, and then finish the Cybersecurity Lab game. Finally, students complete the video quizzes with short-response discussion questions and can work on the Cybersecurity stories as homework reading assignments.

In this media-rich lesson plan from NOVA Labs, students use short videos to explore the following topics: what energy is, how it can be converted into useful forms, and why some sources are running low. Students also investigate alternative energies and how energy is stored and transported. The research challenge allows students to use scientific data to design their own renewable energy plans for a real cities and compete with others to produce the most power. Students use maps, graphs, and weather data to assess the energy potential of various locations and benefits of using renewable energy in different regions of the country.

Explore the evidence for evolution through phylogenetics with this lesson plan from NOVA's Evolution Lab. First, students consider and discuss how we understand and organize the biodiversity that exists on Earth. Students are then introduced to phylogenetic trees and practice building them with the Build a Tree interactive. In Build a Tree, students use both morphology and DNA analysis to identify relationships between species. Next, students explore speciation and shared ancestry with the Deep Tree interactive. As an interactive tree of life, Deep Tree helps students understand evolutionary history on Earth. Discussion questions and video quizzes allow educators to assess student understanding.

In this media-rich lesson plan from NOVA's Sun Lab, students use short videos to explore the following topics: the Sun's structure, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, Earth’s magnetic field, the electromagnetic spectrum, how space weather affects Earth, the physics of light, and telescopes. Students also find our place in the current solar cycle, predict future solar storms, and develop their own research project.

Students undertake the task of organizing their ideas by grouping individual ideas together into clusters of related content in this lesson plan from NOVA Education. Once the organization process is complete, the students generate a list of criteria that they then use to judge the viability of their ideas in the real world.

In this lesson produced by NOVA Education, students build “strategy maps,” visual representations of the materials, resources, and people necessary to develop an innovative product and deliver it to end users. The strategy map is designed as a tool to help students to carefully think through the various elements that are integral to the innovation process in the real world.

In this media-rich lesson, students learn about transitional fossils and explore the similarities and differences between the structures of different animals. They focus particularly on Tiktaalik, a transitional fossil between aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates.

Using this lesson plan as a guide, students will use simple materials to build their own windmills and learn how wind can be used to help get work done.