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  • Spring has sprung! Flowers are blooming, temperatures are all over the place, and pollen is coating our cars here in Athens. As our thoughts turn to the outdoors, there are...
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    Spring Events: National Garden Month and Earth Day

  • We’re debuting a new feature on our website – a distraction free reading pane! In addition to viewing any of our articles with a pdf preview, we now have a dist...
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    New Feature! Distraction Free Reading

  • Have you been watching our newest virtual learning adventure, Ecosystems LIVE? We’ve loved hearing from our viewers so far – and there have been so many of you!...
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    Catching Up with Ecosystems LIVE

  • New Year, New Features! One of the items on our wishlist when we were in the planning stages of the website overhaul was the ability to build your own “library”...
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    New Features! Bookmarking and Sharing

  • Reader Strategies Blog Series In this series, we will be walking through some strategies for using the Natural Inquirer Readers with children from kindergarten through 2...
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    Reader Strategy 3: What Is a Scientist?

  • As 2024 draws to a close, we at Natural Inquirer have been reflecting on this whirlwind year. We’ve been working for years (over 25 at this point!) to make quality scienc...
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    Reflecting on 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025

  • Looking for something fun to keep students occupied after testing? Need a short take-home activity? Trying to keep kids entertained during bad weather? Natural Inquirer has...
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    Short Activities for Active Minds

  • Do you want to build a snowman? My snowman building skills are pretty weak, having lived most of my life in Georgia. But there’s still something magical about time sp...
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    Making Time for Nature

  • Gathering data is an important step in scientific research. Depending on scientists’ research questions, data might include daily temperatures, the number of insects present in a given area, or a l...
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    Civic Scientists at Work!

  • Forest Products Week (October 20 – 26) is a time to highlight the importance of forest health and the many products that come from forests. Learn more about research into some of these forest p...
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    Forest Products Week 2024