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The Dam Challenge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Engineering & Design, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science, 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's Resources, Our Solar System, Earth & Space Science, 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: Engineering & Design, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources 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, Structure and Function in Living Things, Science, Professional DevelopmentThis 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, Professional Development, MathematicsIn 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: Current Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, 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: Life Sciences, Evolution and Adaptation, Science, Professional Development, DNA, Genetics & BiotechnologyIn 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: Instructional Strategies, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Health Science & Medical Technology 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: Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Professional Development, Measurement & Geometry, MathematicsThis 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: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Professional Development, Measurement & Tools, Mathematics 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: Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Professional Development, Measurement & Geometry, MathematicsIn 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: Parts of a Whole (Fractions, Decimals & Percent), Professional Development, Mathematics, Rates and Proportions, Number SenseThis 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: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, History-Social Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, 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: Engineering & Design, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science, Earth's Resources 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, Structure and Function in Living Things, Science, Professional DevelopmentIn 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: Engineering & Design, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Science, Professional Development 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, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Professional Development, 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: Structure and Function in Living Things, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Science, Earth's Resources 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