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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBianca Goes to the Movie
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Measurement & Tools, Physics, Rates and Proportions, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentThis Cyberchase video segment features Bianca, who must figure out the fastest route to a movie premiere.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNext-Generation Space Suits
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Science and 6 additional..In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, MIT engineer Dava Newman is working to replace today's bulky, inflated space...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBioengineered Foods?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Current Science, DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology and 2 additional..Students compare the processes of selective breeding and transgenic manipulation of plants. They consider the pros and cons of g...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Tunnel Challenge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Chemistry, Technology and 3 additional..This interactive activity, from the Building Big Web site, explores tunneling and the tools and methods used to do the job.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBones of Contention
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Life Sciences, Humanities, Evolution and Adaptation and 2 additional..This interactive activity from NOVA invites you to do the work of scientists and use a database to classify actual fossil record...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Is a Theory?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Professional DevelopmentIn these two audio interviews from NOVA Online, learn about the difference between the common understanding of the word theory a...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNorth Dakota Tribal Members Talk About Climate Change
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Environmental Issues, Earth's Resources, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science and 7 additional..In this video segment about climate change adapted from United Tribes Technical College, members of several Native American trib...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMountain Maker, Earth Shaker
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Science, Professional DevelopmentThis interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey Web site helps you visualize different types of plate tectonic activity...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDid Environmental Exposure Cause a Disease Cluster?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences and 5 additional..This video segment from Greater Boston examines whether environmental toxins may be to blame for a rare skin disease.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCan Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences and 5 additional..Learn about one town's conflict over the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects, in this video segment ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGamma Ray Telescope Senses High-Energy Radiation
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Physics, Professional Development and 5 additional..This video from NASA describes the GLAST satellite, which is equipped with a gamma-ray telescope, and shares some background abo...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRocks and Minerals
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Science, Professional DevelopmentThis video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K presents the types of rocks, how they are formed, what they are made of and how they are ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPowering Your Body with Exercise
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies, Life Sciences, Health & Physical Education 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 / HyperLinkBlacker Than Black
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Earth's Resources, Properties of Matter, Technology and 10 additional..In this video adapted from NASA, two members of a NASA research team working to produce carbon nanotubes share some background b...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesign a Liquid Fuel Rocket Engine
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Force & Motion, Properties of Matter, Current Science, Technology and 6 additional..Learn about rocket engines, and then design and launch a liquid fuel rocket in this interactive activity adapted from NASA.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Periodic Table of the Elements
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Properties of Matter, Science, Physics, Professional DevelopmentStudents learn about the origin of the modern periodic table of the elements and how to extract information from it.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnalyzing an Ecosystem
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences 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 / HyperLinkMaking Electricity at a Coal-Burning Plant
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Properties of Matter, Chemical Reactions & Stoichiometry, Technology and 8 additional..This video from KET traces the energy transformations that occur when coal is burned to produce electricity. Some of the mechani...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs Autism Genetic or Environmental?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Health Education, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development and 3 additional..In this video segment from Greater Boston, learn about conflicting theories regarding the cause of autism.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStalking the Wild Mushroom
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentThis video segment from Science Friday explores the major macrofungi groups that exist in the world today.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0