Create a Communications Satellite!

Have you ever wanted to make your own satellite? Create something that's so intricate, high-tech and helpful? Well, The Gooru Corner is giving you that chance. With their interactive resource, you can try your hand at designing a communications satellite. You'll need to figure out how to launch it, power it and make it return signals to Earth. After you make all your choices, see how well your satellite works.

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It's Endangered Species Day!

Today is Endangered Species Day! Defined, an endangered species is any species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or significant portion of its range. In the United States alone, there are an estimated 400 animals listed as endangered and the list is growing. 

There are hot spots around the world with high numbers of endangered species. These hot spots include Indonesia, India, China, Columbia and Mexico. Check out this interactive map to learn more about these hot spots and the endangered animals that live in them.  In Indonesia it's the Sunda Clouded Leopard and in India it's the Asian Elephant.

A Federal Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973. Learn more about it in this featured collection from Gooru Learning.

Keep up with STEMconnector's Gooru Corner for more information on endangered species.

It's International Darwin Day!

Happy birthday, Charles Darwin! Darwin's theory of evolution and influential book On the Origin of Species shaped the biology lessons that student all over the world study today. You were an innovator, a revolutionary and an intellectual of your time and for this, we give you a day!

Don't know too much about Darwin? Well for starters, he developed the theory of evolution! Watch this short biography video on him to get a better idea.

If you want an even closer peek into Darwin's life, you're in luck. Like many people of his time, Darwin kept diaries and secret notebooks throughout his life that later helped historians and filmmakers piece together his story. Although he was worried that his theory of evolution would shock many in the Victorian society (including his wife), Darwin was driven to discover nature's laws. Take a glimpse at everything from scientific insights to personal struggles in some pieces of Darwin's diary.

Now, if you really want to have some fun, try taking this Gooru Corner quiz on Darwin's theory.