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The Dam Challenge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Technology, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Professional Development and 3 additional..In this interactive activity from the Building Big Web site, investigate dams in distress and decide if they should be repaired,...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0How the Inner Solar System Formed
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Our Solar System, Science, Professional DevelopmentIn this video segment adapted from NOVA, explore the theory that small bits of gas and dust combined to form protoplanets billio...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Designing a Paper Bridge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Technology, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis and 4 additional..In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a bridge from a single piece of paper. Will it be strong enough to ho...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Antarctic Food Web Game
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..In this interactive game adapted from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, build a food web that illustrates the flow of e...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Duck Development
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living ThingsThis video segment from NOVA: The Shape of Things follows the growth of a duck embryo, from a single fertilized egg cell to a co...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Finding the Right Combination of Clothes
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Algebra & Functions, Variables & Expressions, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentIn this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry has a fixed budget for clothing, so he must figure out what combination of jackets ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Dolly Garza: A Tlingit and Haida Scientist
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Current Science, Professional Development and 5 additional..In this interactive resource adapted from Raven Radio/KCAW, listen to biologist Dr. Dolly Garza as she explores the sea otter po...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Geneticist Pardis Sabeti
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Science, Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationIn this video profile adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about geneticist and rock musician Pardis Sabeti, whose innovative ins...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Solving a Public Health Problem
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Science and 3 additional..In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to und...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Points of Origin
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Angles & Pythagorean TheoremThis KET animation illustrates positive and negative measurement on a straight line and on a flat plane using a point of origin.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Firefighter Training
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Rates and Proportions, Physics and 2 additional..In this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry decides to train as a firefighter and uses line graphs to chart his physical fitnes...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Using a Coordinate Grid
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Angles & Pythagorean TheoremIn this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad must locate each other using a map s grid to construct a coordinate system usin...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Module 1: Preparing To Teach Proportional Reasoning
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Number Sense, Professional Development, Mathematics, Parts of a Whole (Fractions, Decimals & Percent), Rates and ProportionsThis teaching module introduces proportional reasoning in the classroom and its place in the Common Core Mathematics Standards, ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Human vs. Chimp Thinking
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Professional DevelopmentThis video segment from The Human Spark features a discussion about how human thought differs from that of chimpanzees.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Alaska Native Teens Help Researchers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences, Professional Development, History-Social Science and 5 additional..In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Native students ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Engineering Biofuels
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Technology, Earth & Space Science, Science and 9 additional..In this video segment adapted from KQED's QUEST, find out how synthetic biologists use the techniques of metabolic engineering a...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Seeing the Way: A Brief History of Cataract Surgery
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Science, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living ThingsIn this lesson, based on the documentary Through My Eyes: The Charlie Kelman Story, students learn about the history and state-o...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Grass Bridge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Technology and 4 additional..In this video segment adapted from NOVA, watch residents of the Peruvian Andes build a suspension bridge made entirely of grass.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Hacker's Four-Zergen Game
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Probability, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, MathematicsIn this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad determines the fairness of a game in which there are three shapes distribu...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Climate and Human Evolution
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Science and 7 additional..In this video segment adapted from NOVA: Becoming Human, learn how the analysis of rock layers and ocean sediments supports the ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0