See what students are saying about what stresses them out, how they deal with stress and what they are grateful [...]

See what students are saying about what stresses them out, how they deal with stress and what they are grateful [...]

See what students are saying about what stresses them out, how they deal with stress and what they are grateful [...]

See what students are saying about what stresses them out, how they deal with stress and what they are grateful [...]

Enhance your writing with figurative language as we explore Michigan’s beautiful beaches and dunes.

Take a heartfelt journey through Detroit’s Boynton neighborhood, where we explore the rich history and transformation of Saint Andrew and Saint Benedict Catholic Church.

In this detective-themed video, Ms. Meg helps you crack the mystery of idioms!

What are ethics, and how do they guide us in making good choices?

Mr. Peterson explains wind power and demonstrates how to write a strong opinion essay, highlighting the importance of renewable energy.

Breathe deeply and let the sounds of nature inspire you to move and create.

Miss Defauw shares a snowy memory and teaches students how to use dialogue to enhance storytelling and bring their writing to life.

Ms. Audra invites you to create a beach soundscape using your voice and movements.

Using a real-life example about voting ballots in Michigan, we’ll show you how to fact-check claims using reliable sources.

From Detroit-style pizza to your favorite hoodie, learn how to express your love in the most exaggerated and poetic way possible.

Strengthen your reading skills while learning about the history of the Mackinac Bridge in this fun and educational episode.

From headlines to bylines and quotes, we break down the key features of news articles while uncovering the mystery of a 1914 shipwreck.

Learn how to summarize important facts while discovering how EVs are shaping the future.

In this exciting soundscape activity, you’ll get to roar, squawk, and even slither like a snake as we create the sounds of the zoo.

From bridges to roads, rivers to lakes, trains to planes Michiganders need to get from here to there. Learn about how transportation works in Michigan.

Learn all about Michigan's tasty pasty and how it fueled miners in the Upper Peninsula. Then, an ode to Detroit's cheesy, crispy pizza.

Learn all about Michigan's climate. First, take a look at what causes lake effect snow. Then, what makes windpower work for Michigan?

This “Portraits in Oversight” video discusses the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing investigation led by attorney Ferdinand Pecora.

This episode highlights the oversight investigation conducted by Senator Thomas Walsh, whose relentless work exposed bribery and abuse of power by the Harding administration's Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall and his associates.

This “Portraits in Oversight” video discusses the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror during Reconstruction and the congressional investigations that exposed their violence.

This precedent-setting investigation highlights the logistical failures, mismanagement, and lack of preparedness that contributed to the defeat, and the lessons learned that led to improvements in military organization and accountability.

Take a dive into the history of Michigan. First, learn about how Lansing became Michigan's capital city. Then, take a look at how Toledo ended up in Ohio!

Imagine honking horns, chirping birds, and bustling streets as you bring your urban environment to life through sound and movement.

Join Ms. Meg for an interactive lesson and game that will take your writing to the next level!

Join naturalist Paul Roose as he teaches you how to be a citizen scientist by observing birds, collecting data, and recording your findings.

Why did Michigan's state capital move from Detroit to Lansing? Join Mrs. Mask as she dives into the fascinating history behind this change and explains how Lansing was chosen.

Did you know Michigan and Ohio once fought over the Toledo Strip? Let’s get started with a timeline and some exciting history facts!

Paige and Brooke discuss the importance of checking in, finding joy, and practicing self-care.

Being online is fun but it also comes with danger. Hosts Paige and Brooke explore the impact of social media [...]

Who are you? Hosts Brooke and Paige talk identity and self-expression. Plus, a student at Ann Arbor’s Pathways to Success [...]

Hosts Paige and Brooke tackle careers: from the significance of networking to the importance of career exploration activities. If you’ve [...]

Ever wondered how astronauts communicate in space? In this episode of Extra Credit, teens dive into the world of communication, [...]

Paige and Brooke explore the dynamics of teamwork.

Ms. Audra guides you through the sounds of flutes, violins, bells, and more. Let your imagination soar as you use your voice and body to make music. Breathe, move, and create a beautiful symphony with us!

Learn how to observe birds in your backyard and record their size, shape, color, and habitat like a true scientist. No fancy notebook required – just your curiosity and a love for nature!

We’ll show you how filmmakers use different techniques to create compelling digital stories, all while exploring a garden and talking about the importance of soil!

Jeff Kass takes us into the world of organic farmers and teaches us how to write a first-person narrative from their perspective.

Watch as Mrs. DeFauw models how to take notes and write summaries to help remember key ideas from different texts. Ready to say, “We can do it!”? Let’s get started!

What makes Michigan's economy run? Learn about Michigan's history with Rosie the Riveter, discover the life of a dairy farmer, and learn about how media is made.

Oops!! In this episode, hosts Paige and Brooke investigate the value of struggle and making mistakes. Plus, hear how a [...]

Hosts Brooke and Paige explore the importance of community and the ways in which it can be nurtured and improved. [...]

Squat & Stretch Routine: Energize your body with Ms. AP’s 2-minute movement snack, combining squats and stretches. Warm up with jumping jacks, perform squats with arm lifts, and cool down to feel refreshed and ready to learn.

Basketball Jump Shots: Energize your body with Ms. AP in a fun 2-minute session practicing basketball jump shots. Warm up, shoot some hoops, and cool down to stay active throughout the day​

Bird Dog Balance: Enhance your balance with Ms. AP in this 2-minute session focused on the bird dog pose. Warm up, practice the pose, and cool down to stay steady and energized​

Burpee Jacks: Push your limits with Ms. AP in this 2-minute burpee challenge. Start with a warm-up, incorporate new burpee moves, and cool down to keep your body active all day long.

Child's Pose Relaxation: Learn the relaxing child's pose with Ms. AP in this 2-minute movement snack. Start with a warm-up, practice the child's pose, and cool down to feel refreshed and ready to continue learning​

Cobra Pose Introduction: Join Ms. AP to learn the cobra pose in this 2-minute movement snack. Warm up, stretch into the cobra pose, and cool down to restore your energy and prepare for the rest of the day​

Crocodile Pose Yoga: Learn the crocodile pose with Ms. AP in this 2-minute movement snack. Warm up with squats, practice the pose, and cool down to restore your energy and stay active throughout the day.

Forearm Plank Challenge: Challenge yourself with the forearm plank in this 2-minute movement snack with Ms. AP. Warm up, hold the plank, and cool down to maintain your energy and strength​

Restore your energy with Ms. AP as she guides you through a forward fold stretch in this 2-minute movement snack. Warm up, fold, and cool down to keep your body flexible and energized​

Full Burpee: Join Ms. AP in a dynamic 2-minute movement snack focusing on jumping burpees. Warm up, perform jumping burpees, and cool down with deep breaths to maintain your energy.

Halfway Lift Yoga: Ms. AP teaches you the halfway lift yoga pose in this 2-minute movement snack. Begin with a warm-up, move through the pose, and cool down to stay centered and focused​

High Plank Hold: Build strength with Ms. AP as she leads you through the high plank hold in this 2-minute movement snack. Warm up, hold your plank, and cool down to stay strong and focused​

Join Ms. AP in this 2-minute movement snack that combines running in place with arm lifts. Warm up, lift, and cool down to restore energy and focus for the day.

Legs In Motion: Ms. AP guides you through a fun 2-minute movement snack focusing on leg movements. Step side to side, warm up with a light run, and cool down to stay energized throughout the day.

Arm & Leg Jumping Jacks: Get moving with Ms. AP as she leads you through a 2-minute workout combining arm and leg movements in a jumping jack routine. Warm up, jump, and cool down to stay focused.

Jumping Jacks Challenge: Take on the jumping jacks challenge with Ms. AP in this quick 2-minute session. Warm up, perform 20 jumping jacks, and cool down to stay energized all day long.

Lateral Lunge Workout: Boost your energy with Ms. AP’s 2-minute snack focused on lateral lunges. Start with a warm-up, lunge side to side, and cool down with deep breaths to keep your brain sharp.

Full Body Jumping Fun: Ms. AP leads a dynamic 2-minute movement snack, focusing on jumps that engage your whole body. Warm up, jump, and cool down to stay active and ready to learn.

Squat Jump Challenge: Join Ms. AP for a 2-minute movement snack focusing on squat jumps. Warm up with jumping jacks, perform squat jumps, and cool down with deep breaths to keep your energy high​

Jumping Jacks Energy Boost: Join Ms. AP in a quick 2-minute movement snack focused on jumping jacks to restore your energy. Warm up, follow along with 20 jumping jacks, and cool down with deep breaths to get ready for the rest of your day.

Squats with a Twist: Energize yourself with Ms. AP’s 2-minute snack, adding an arm twist to your squats. Warm up, squat, twist, and cool down to keep your body moving and your mind sharp.

Standard Burpee: Take your burpees to the next level with Ms. AP in this 2-minute session. Warm up, add new moves to your burpees, and cool down to stay energized throughout the day.

Powerful Pencil Jumps: Jump into action with Ms. AP in this 2-minute movement snack. After warming up, practice jumping with perfect form, and cool down to keep your energy high.

Walking Burpee: Learn the fundamentals of burpees with Ms. AP in this 2-minute movement snack. Warm up with forward folds, practice basic burpee movements, and cool down to keep your energy high.

The coldest and largest of the Great Lakes has been experiencing steady increases in average temperatures for a few decades, enough to give rise to concern for the lake ecosystem, the weather patterns in the surrounding area, and more.

Explore the phenomenon of whitefish population decline in the Jordan River by Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Did you know that tiny goldfish can become a menace to the Great Lakes? Join Mr. Peterson as he explores how invasive goldfish impact our ecosystem and teaches a valuable literacy lesson on cause and effect. Learn to create a cause and effect chart to enhance your reading and writing skills!

Did you know the North American River Otter is making a splash in the Detroit River after 100 years? Join Mr. Peterson and Dr. John Hartig as they explore the otters' return and what it means for the environment. Plus, learn how to write from a first-person point of view in a fun, otter-inspired writing lesson!

Join Mr. Peterson as he dives into the world of algae and explores how human actions cause harmful algal blooms. Learn about eutrophication, the impact on wildlife, and how you can make a positive environmental change!

Dive into our reliance on electricity and its sources. Explore renewable and non-renewable energy, with a focus on solar power.

See how this video models descriptive writing with a vivid paragraph from an 1800s miner's perspective, using sensory details to bring the pasty and the mining experience to life.

Have you heard all the buzz about bees lately? Join Mr. Peterson as he explores two native Michigan bees and their role in pollination. Plus, learn how a Venn diagram can help organize your thoughts and improve your writing skills when comparing and contrasting!

What is AI? How will its implementation affect students and young adults entering the workforce? Join Ashwak as she meets with professionals to find out.

Do you love tasty treats? So do we! Mrs. Mora helps us to understand how to use vowels to break words into parts and how to read and understand multisyllabic words all while learning about food related terms.

Take a trip with Mrs. Mora as she teaches us how prefixes and suffixes can help us understand challenging words related to travel.

Learn strategies to help decode words using prefixes and suffixes. Mrs. Mora teaches us how large words, like renewable, can be easily decoded by understanding word parts!

Learn bow to use word parts, like prefixes and suffixes, to break big words down into understandable word parts.

Learn how to use vowels to break words into parts to make them easier to read. Mrs. Mora shows us how to break apart an important word to learn about syrup farming.

Farmers use a lot of challenging words as part of their work growing and harvesting our food. Mrs. Mora teaches us how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode words related to farming.

Meet poet laureates, discover a collection of poems written by Flint students, and visit a cool poetry competition in Lansing.

Architects, restaurateurs, high school students, and scientists are joining forces to bring back a creature that fits in the palm of a hand: the oyster.

Beavers are back in Britain—charming many Britons, perturbing others, and all the while stimulating a healthy debate about whether the island nation is ready to embrace a wilder future.

An improbable alliance is giving a special bird—the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker—a new lease on life.

Ecuador is the first country in the world to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution—to establish that species other than humans have their own legal right to exist. And now this revolutionary concept is being put to the test.

Recovering salmon populations are reviving a “nutrient express” from the ocean to the forest.

After a long civil war that decimated Gorongosa’s wildlife, the Mozambique government and the U.S.-based Carr Foundation have worked for two decades to restore the park’s wildlife to nearly pre-war levels.

The axolotl lives in only one place outside captivity: the waters of Lake Xochimilco, in Mexico City. Now, a team of scientists is working to secure its future by looking to its past.

Dogs in Australia are partnering with people to save other species from grave threats to the island continent’s unique fauna.

Mary Reynolds of Ireland is building a movement to turn gardeners into guardians of the planet by returning our own patch of land to nature, and by restoring hope that individual action can create lasting change. 

As urban expansion quickly replaces natural habitats, façade engineer Alistair Law has discovered a new way to restore native ecosystems for pollinators and create natural spaces for us all within cities.

A wildlife biologist puts an ambitious plan in motion to save two uniquely American reptiles — the eastern indigo snake and the gopher tortoise — and the longleaf pine forest they call home.

Three species of sea turtles nesting in southeast Florida face a range of manmade threats.

For years, Derek Gow worked his 400-acres in western England as a conventional sheep and cattle farm. Now, he’s using his experience with British rewilding projects to return his land to what it once was: a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem.

Florida’s Crystal River has long been a safe haven for the Florida manatee, but when an invasive algae wiped out the eel grass that manatees need for food, the community rallied to restore the river and save the animals that call it home.

Coral reefs around the world are threatened by rising ocean temperatures, but hope is growing off the coast of Hawaii. There, researchers at the Coral Resilience Lab selectively breed corals to withstand ever-increasing amounts of heat stress.

All around the world, seabirds provide a critical link between land and sea. On Hawai’i, ecologists are working to protect two vital shearwater species that helped life first take hold across these islands.

A local team is removing invasive predators, restoring habitats, and battling mosquito-borne diseases to protect honeycreepers from their latest threat: avian malaria.

In the middle of Rio de Janeiro sits the world’s largest urban rainforest: Tijuca National park. To combat a century of deforestation and hunting, a team of researchers are repairing the forest’s forgotten web of life, one species at a time.

Using innovative technology and breakthrough genetics, researchers have ignited a cadre of solutions to save rare and cherished species of frogs.

A wildlife biologist puts an ambitious plan in motion to save two uniquely American reptiles — the eastern indigo snake and the gopher tortoise — and the longleaf pine forest they call home.

Three species of sea turtles nesting in southeast Florida face a range of manmade threats.

For years, Derek Gow worked his 400-acres in western England as a conventional sheep and cattle farm. Now, he’s using his experience with British rewilding projects to return his land to what it once was: a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem.