Discover, Explore, Learn

A resource for kids, parents, and teachers to find fun and educational materials related to health, science, and the environment we live in today.

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Sharon Studies the Environment

Follow Sharon's story as she studies her indoor and outdoor environments in this coloring book from NIEHS.

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Connect the Dots

Connect the dots is a form of puzzle containing a sequence of numbered dots. When a line is drawn connecting the dots the outline of an object is revealed. Try your hand at some of our Connect the dots puzzles.

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Wildlife in North Carolina

These articles cover a wide range of ecological topics and have been distributed in support of the ongoing education requirement.

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NIEHS Scholars Connect Program

The NIEHS Scholars Connect Program (NSCP) is designed to provide a unique opportunity to highly motivated science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) focused undergraduate students in the Raleigh-Durham area to solidly connect with NIEHS, and receive frontier-level training in biomedical research.

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What is science and who are scientists?

Science is a way of organizing what we already know and learning more by experiments. Scientists use the scientific method to learn about the world. There are a lot of different branches of science.

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    Learn more about the environment, or the world around you – from the air we breathe to the water we drink – and how YOU can make a difference!

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Scientists get to solve puzzles every day, because science and research involve finding solutions from the clues that we are given.

Scientists get to solve puzzles every day, because science and research involve finding solutions from the clues that we are given.

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Scientists use experiments to find out about the world around us. Conduct an experiment or try out some fun activities yourself!