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Pbs Learning Media: Diamonds: The Science Behind the Sparkle

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site explains why the atomic structure of a diamond slows down light and produces a sparkle more brilliant than from any other colorless substance.
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Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: His Place in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Einstein called Galileo the "father of modern physics." This media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site looks at Galileo's quest to understand the mathematics of motion.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Is a Radio Wave Emitted?

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated essay from A Science Odyssey Web site explains the science behind radio waves, including the role of electrons and electromagnetic fields.
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Pbs Learning Media: Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey Web site helps you visualize different types of plate tectonic activity and shows the impact this activity has on Earth's surface.
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Pbs Learning Media: Radio Waves: Fm vs. Am

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief essay from A Science Odyssey Web site describes the difference between FM and AM radio waves.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pulsars: Little Green Men

For Students 9th - 10th
The story behind Jocelyn Bell's role in the discovery of pulsars is told in this colorful, comic-book-style resource from A Science Odyssey Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Floating and Sinking: Hot Air Balloons

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do hot air balloons float? This resource from the NOVA Web site offers a series of interactive activities that illustrates the physics of hot air balloons.
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Schools of California Online Resources for Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
S.C.O.R.E. offers teacher approved and evaluated websites, lesson plans, virtual activities, and more which have been aligned with California standards to aid educators in history and social science.
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Pbs Learning Media: Forensics and Dna Profiling

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how DNA profilers analyze bits of tissue to identify human remains. From the NOVA: "Lost on Everest" Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Dna Workshop: Replication of Dna and Protein Synthesis

For Students 9th - 10th
How does DNA perform those all-important functions of replication and protein synthesis? This interactive feature, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "A Science Odyssey," will help you explore and understand the secrets of DNA.
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Pbs Learning Media: Technology Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive timeline from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site features influential technological innovations from 1750 to 1990.
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Alex: Continent Jump

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars will learn about animals that live on all seven continents. Students and teachers will use websites to learn additional information about the animals from various continents.This lesson plan was created as a result of the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Life Cycle of Ferns, a Seedless Vascular Plant

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will listen, watch, and read while the teacher goes over the life cycle of the ferns. Students will then use the textbook or Internet websites to draw, label, decorate, or color the life cycle of ferns. Young scholars will...