Bring the World to Your Classroom
Celebrating 10 Years of Live Lessons and Interactive Resources Reaching a Million and a Half Students
Our Mission
Inspiring the next generation of scientists, explorers, and conservationists by bringing scientific exploration and interactive resources into the classroom.
Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants opens the frontlines of our changing planet to all students through the passion, immersive technology and visual storytelling of the scientists, explorers, conservationists, and adventurers who are smashing the boundaries of what we thought was possible.
Our events are free for classrooms everywhere. Each day students are introduced to important and challenging issues, exciting places, strong role models, and new STEM career paths.
What We Do
Since 2015 we’ve hosted 4,500+ live lessons, connecting over a million and a half students to scientists, explorers, and conservationists from 113 countries. Our live lessons and interactive resources will always be free for classrooms everywhere.
Fresh Content from Around the World
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We’ve got resources that will excite and inspire your students with STEM material that will take them around the world. All of our resources are free.
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Upcoming Lessons
Bringing Bison Back to Banff
From 16 animals to over 160 a decade…
Live From the South Pole with Sarah Bouckoms
Explorer Sarah Bouckoms is a scientist and educator…
Opening Deep-sea Sediment Cores at the US Geological Survey Lab
Join scientists live from the lab at the…
Exploring the Dinosaur Museum with Paleontologist Dr. Emily Bamforth
Join us live at Alberta’s iconic Phillip J…
The Firebreak Makers: Creating a Fire Guard in Banff National Park
Approach, clamp, cut, steer, bunch—repeat. In a flurry…
Virtual Field Trip to the National Kiwi Hatchery in New Zealand
Take a virtual field trip to the National…
Under the Pole: Live From Antarctica
Join the Under the Pole Expedition from their…
Around the Americas: Bull & Giant Kelp
Kelp forests are among Earth’s most dynamic and…
MegaQuakes: The Science Behind the World’s Largest Earthquakes
Hundreds of thousands of earthquakes occur around the…
Mighty Morphin’ Amphibians with Jessie Rack
Amphibians are animals that require water to survive,…
AI For Nature: Saving the Serengeti
Discover how artificial intelligence is being used as…
Nathalie Ouellette | Outreach Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
Nathalie is an astrophysicist and an avid science…
Meteor Hunting in Antarctica with Linda Welzenbach Fries
Linda Welzenbach Fries is a planetary scientist and…
Insect Societies of the World
Did you know that some insects live in…
Plankton Poop and the Largest Migration on Earth With the RV Falkor (Too)
Each night in the open ocean, hundreds of…
Studying Beluga Whales with Justine Hudson
Justine Hudson is a marine mammal biologist at…
Wildlife Filmmaking with Aishwarya Sridhar
Aishwarya Sridhar is a National Geographic Explorer &…
Around the Americas: Pathways to the Blue Industries
This online classroom from the Around the Americas…
Sharks 101 with Carlee Jackson
Join Carlee on this journey into the deep…
A Snowflakes Journey with Parks Canada
What happens to a snowflake that falls in…
Sea lamprey: Slimy suckers of the Great Lakes
Sea lamprey are slimy vampire fish with a…
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