Brookhaven Lab's property is home to hundreds of different animal species. Learn about the tools scientists use to observe animals in the wild and how you too, can be an animal observer.
Challenges students to create a model of a real-life synchrotron beamline from a polychromatic light source.
Introduces students to spectroscopy and includes directions to build their own spectroscope.
Follow this narrated video to make a backyard study plot and begin collecting your own scientific data to become a citizen scientist.
This activity is designed to give students an understanding of how clouds are formed and how they can contribute to an ongoing citizen science project.
Scientists and engineers at Brookhaven are unlocking clues to Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Learn more through a series of mini-experiment
To introduce students to the research, facilities, people, and careers at Brookhaven Lab.
To introduce students to the research, facilities, people, and careers at Brookhaven Lab.
This lesson is a companion to the Full STEM Ahead video that highlights STEM careers on Long Island.
Follow along with this narrated video to design an experiment to discover which items are magnetic.
Design an experiment to discover which items are magnetic.
Grow plants in a greenhouse you design and build yourself. Learn about the plant scientists at Brookhaven Lab
This narrated video introduces students to Brookhaven’s “Tennis for Two,†a video game designed in 1958, and guides them through steps to build their own video game using Scratch coding.
Guides students through an inquiry-based experiment using common household materials
NSLS-II is a synchrotron light source helping researchers explore solutions to the grand energy challenges faced by the nation, and open up new regimes of scientific discovery that will pave the way to discoveries in physics, chemistry, and biology — advances that will ultimately enhance national security and help drive the development of abundant, safe, and clean energy technologies.
Describes how students can experiment with shadows through a fun, interactive game.
This narrated video takes students outside and challenges them to make observations of shadows throughout the day.
This lesson is a companion to the 'Full STEM Ahead' video that highlights STEM careers on Long Island.
Brookhaven National Laboratory delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure America’s future. Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, 36 R&D 100 Awards, and more than 70 years of pioneering research.