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Pyrotechnics: It's Elemental
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Science, Chemistry, Professional Development, Properties of MatterIn this interactive periodic table from the NOVA Web site, find out the role of various elements in making fireworks.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Comets Deliver Amino Acids to Earth
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Our Solar System, Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Professional Development and 3 additional..Amino acids, essential ingredients for life, may have been delivered to Earth by comets billions of years ago, as visualized in ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Life Sciences, Science, Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Energy Transfer in a Roller Coaster
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Physics, Science, Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes fro...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Arrangement 2
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Algebra & Functions, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentIn this video segment from Cyberchase, Matt tries for a second time to arrange tables and chairs to accomodate 20 workers.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Clean Water Systems in Mexico
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space ScienceThe push to modernize Mexico's water and sanitation systems not only saved human lives, it also spurred economic growth, as illu...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Centripetal Force: Roller Coaster Loops
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Science, Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentThis video segment explains centripetal force and illustrates how roller coasters rely on it to give you a thrilling ride.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Life on Enceladus?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space ScienceIn this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists are startled to discover evidence for the three key ingredients for life on ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Antarctic Food Web Game
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems 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: 0Electrophoresis and Gel Analysis
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Science, Electricity & Magnetism, Properties of Matter, Chemistry and 9 additional..In this animation produced by WGBH and Digizyme, Inc., see how molecules of DNA are separated using gel electrophoresis, and how...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Geospatial Revolution: Mapping Power
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Instructional Technology, Science, History-Social Science, Professional Development and 4 additional..Kibera, a poor community, in Nairobi, was a blank spot on the map until recently. This video from Penn State Public Broadcasting...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Adopting Sustainable Food Practices
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, History-Social Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources 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: 0Technology Over Time
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Current Science, Professional Development, Engineering & Design and 2 additional..This interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey offers a historic tour of technologies common in homes from 1900 to 2010.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Viewing Radio Waves
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Energy & Work, Science, Light, Sound & Other Waves, Ecology & Ecosystems and 6 additional..Discover how astronomers create images from radio waves, in this interactive activity adapted from NASA.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Desert Biome
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Evolution and Adaptation 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: 0Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Energy & Work, Physics, Science, Professional Development and 4 additional..See potential energy convert to kinetic energy in this interactive activity from WGBH that shows a roller coaster in action.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Switching Genes On and Off
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis video segment adapted from NOVA reveals how junk DNA helped solve an evolutionary mystery: Why do certain species of fruit ...Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0Witnessing Environmental Changes
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Current Science, Environmental Issues, Professional Development 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: 0Calorimetry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Energy & Work, Physics, Science, Heat & Thermodynamics 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: 0Is Love in Our DNA?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationDid evolution shape your taste in a mate? Take our interactive poll from Evolution.Contributor: Teachers' DomainViews: 0Favorites: 0