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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld's Oldest Penguin Fossils Suggest Birds Outlived Dinos
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Geography, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this National Geographic News article, read about the oldest penguin fossils yet found suggesting that at least some ancestor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGenetically Modified Bacteria Produce Living Photographs
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, Visual Arts, Types of Media and 3 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about a method to create photographs with E. coli bacteria. This is an early succ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYour DNA Is a Song: Scientists Use Music to Code Proteins
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, Science, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how science educators are creating protein songs. By assigning musical no...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFoxes Invade Tasmania, Create "Environmental Emergency"
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Geography, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the apparent introduction of red foxes to the Australian island of Tasmania...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Killer" Fossil Find May Rewrite Story of Whale Evolution
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Geography, Life Sciences, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this National Geographic News article, read about the fossil discovery of an early baleen whale with huge eyes and killer jaw...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFirst Evidence That Wildlife Corridors Boost Biodiversity, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Geography, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about a five-year study of South Carolina pine forests that offers proof that con...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhales May Be Doomed by Russia Oil Project, Groups Say
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Geography, American Democracy, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how whale conservationists have urged Shell Corporation to stop its Siberia...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHimalaya Forests Vanishing, Species May Follow, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Geography, American Democracy, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how nearly a quarter of the species unique to the Himalayas could vanish by...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHumans Put Squeeze on Ancient Pronghorn Migration
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Geography, American Democracy, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about changes in the migration routes of the Yellowstone pronghorn. Using GPS to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhales Could Be Harmed by Oil-Search Noises, Report Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Geography, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about how seismic pulses used for underwater oil exploration could affect whale m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Bugs" in Our Guts Make Us More Than Human, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Health & Physical Education, Life Sciences, Geography, American Democracy and 4 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about the important role that microbes in the digestive tract play in our surviva...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCane Toad
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Geography, History-Social ScienceThis National Geographic Magazine resource focuses on the cane toad. This venemous toad has a large population in Australia, whe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Has Been Happening to Polar Bears in Recent Decades?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThis resource, from NOAA, features information about polar bears and the challenges they face. Users can also link to polar bear...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOcean Water: Optics
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: ScienceThis resource, from the Office of Naval Research, features information about and a diagram depicting the three ocean zones: the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentHow Do Genes Work Within Their Environments?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Psychology, Life Sciences, History-Social Science, ElectivesThis online book chapter, presented by AAAS, explores the functions of and variations within the human genome. The chapter comes...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTour of the Basics
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThis tutorial, created by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, introduces students to DNA, genes, chro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Do Genes Direct the Production of Proteins?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThis resource, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, includes an illustrated article explaining how information flows from...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSkin Cancer: Exposing Healthy Skin to the Sun
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Health & Physical Education, Life Sciences, Injury Prevention & Safety, Personal and Community Health and 2 additional..In this lesson from Science NetLinks, students develop an understanding of the science behind keeping skin healthy, including h...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYellow Journalism: Using Newspring as a UV Detector
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Science, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Project Labs Web site, features a lesson in which students design an experiment showing how newsprint can be...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSkeleton of 9,000-yr-old man in WA
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Technology, Earth & Space Science, Electives and 3 additional..The skeleton of a 9,000-year-old man was found near Kennewick, Washington in 1996.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0