What do you get when you combine science-based games and research activities with the most popular science series on American television? You get NOVA Labs, a free digital platform where anyone can actively participate in science. Predict solar storms, design renewable energy systems, track cloud movements, design biomolecules and more. Watch our videos, then visit the NOVA Labs website to see how you can take part in real-world investigations by visualizing, analyzing, and playing with the same data that scientists use.
Read more about this here. THIS COURSE HAS BEEN RETIRED. Khan Academy is no longer maintaining or updating this course while they focus their limited resources on other courses.
The Nova Labs section in the Partner Content section of Khan Academy has material that is very easily understandable. While the same material would often put the content to a post high school crowd, the short videos (2 to 6 minutes) with clear content and great graphics makes this partner content great for middle school and up. Even an above average elementary schooler would probably find this section interesting and enjoyable. This is a section that is truly for all ages. They cover variety like evolution, cybersecurity, RNA, Sun/solar system, energy and clouds.
There are also quizzes, which are very easy to get all right if students watched the videos. Speed and accuracy badges are easy to get here, it'd be a waste to not get them. If you've ever heard of the "Sun 101" hack, a quiz in this section used to be hacked. Late fall/early winter 2015, Khan Academy rearranged the content to combine these 1 question quizzes into one larger quiz, thus making the item going around useless, but maintaining the content.
- Evolution
- Cybersecurity
- RNA: the wonder molecule
- The Sun and solar storms
- Energy
- Clouds