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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBuilding a Cleaner Battery
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Engineering & Design, Science, Technology, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 2 additional..This video excerpt from NOVA s Making Stuff: Cleaner and accompanying activity guide for grades K 8 introduce students to the de...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesert Biome
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things and 5 additional..This video segment from NOVA: A Desert Place describes the physical characteristics and organisms that define the desert biome.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkContinental Drift: What's the Big Idea?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Instructional Strategies, Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continen...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWitnessing Environmental Changes
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Professional Development, Environmental Issues and 5 additional..In this video segment adapted from Haskell Indian Nations University, meet Elders who describe dramatic changes that they have w...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSolving a Public Health Problem
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Science, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAir Quality Index
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources and 6 additional..In this interactive activity adapted from Air Quality Index: A Guide to Air Quality and Your Health by the U.S. EPA, learn about...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Two Variables to Express Algebraic Relationships
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Algebra & Functions, Professional Development, Variables & Expressions, MathematicsStudents are introduced to algebraic expressions that use more than one variable and have multiple solutions. They figure out co...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnalyzing an Ecosystem
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems and 3 additional..In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Alberta, identify the living and nonliving things in an ecosystem. T...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPowering Your Body with Exercise
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things and 6 additional..In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the positive effects that exercise has on the body and ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNutrition: What Your Body Needs
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology and 3 additional..In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Concrete Manipulatives to Generate Algebraic Patterns
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Algebra & Functions, Professional Development, MathematicsUsing manipulatives, students figure out patterns in problems involving seating arrangements. They write algebraic equations to ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAdopting Sustainable Food Practices
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development and 5 additional..Hear about how respect for Earth can help us attain a more sustainable lifestyle in the face of climate change in this video seg...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHeart Disease: America's Leading Cause of Death
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life SciencesLearn why heart disease, a largely preventable condition, is the leading cause of death in this country today, in this video ada...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Light Travels
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Light, Sound & Other Waves, Science, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems and 4 additional..In this video segment adapted from Shedding Light on Science, observe demonstrations of the fundamental idea that light travels ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCalorimetry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Heat & Thermodynamics, Science, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems and 4 additional..Do you know how many calories are in a macadamia nut? This video segment highlighting a Calorimetry experiment will give you the...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPyrotechnics: It's Elemental
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Science, Professional Development, Properties of Matter, ChemistryIn this interactive periodic table from the NOVA Web site, find out the role of various elements in making fireworks.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Patterns of Input and Output to Algebraic Equations
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Algebra & Functions, Professional Development, Variables & Expressions, MathematicsStudents explore the relationship between input and output values and learn to use algebraic expressions and equations.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkModule 2: Using Scale City To Teach Proportional Reasoning
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Number Sense, Parts of a Whole (Fractions, Decimals & Percent), Professional Development, Rates and Proportions, MathematicsThis teaching module introduces you to the resources found in Scale City: The Road to Proportional Reasoning, including the math...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAn Unpredictable Environment
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Structure and Function in Living Things and 7 additional..In this video segment adapted from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Inuit observers describe how their t...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnergy Transfer in a Trebuchet
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Science, Professional Development, ChemistryOn NOVA, a team of carpenters, timber framers, engineers, and historians recreate a medieval throwing machine called a trebuchet...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0