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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sagan on Time Travel

For Students 9th - 10th
Astronomer Carl Sagan discusses the possibility of time travel in this audio-enhanced interview from the NOVAWeb site.
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PBS

Pbs: Nova: Time Travel: Think Like Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
Addressed with questions about relative speed and the speed of light, students begin to "think like Einstein" while exploring the science behind the mystery of time travel.
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Seeker

Seeker: Week of 5 26 14: Is Time Travel Possible? It Is for Photons

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about photons and wormholes, and if it will ever be possible to travel through time.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Is Time Travel Possible?

For Students 9th - 10th
Time travel is a staple of science fiction stories, but is it actually possible? Colin Stuart imagines where (or, when) this fascinating phenomenon, time dilation, may one day take us. [5:04]
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Time Travel Kit

For Students 5th - 8th
Would you like to travel forward in time? Use this time travel kit to help you think through different ways to experience time travel. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: A Time Traveler's Log

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will read chapter four of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, noting both the time traveler's descriptions of the new world of 800,000 ACE, and the conclusions the main character draws as a 19th century man. Students will think of a...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Time Travel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this NOVA lesson to discuss the nature of time and the grandfather paradox. Examine time from different perspectives by plotting ages on a timeline, estimating how long a minute is and imagining going back in time to change something...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Time Travel Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your professor has accidentally stepped through a time portal in his physics lab. You've got just a minute to jump through before it closes and leaves him stranded in history. Your only way back is to grab enough colored nodules to...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Time O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.
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Read Works

Read Works: As Time Flies By

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about time travel in the movies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Lesnansky's Control Center: Word Processing Software: Time Traveler

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, young scholars will create a word processing document that tells the story of where they would go and whom they would like to meet if they could time-travel.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide for the novel The Time Machine by H. G. Wells including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Other

Texas Historical Commission: Texas Time Travel: World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide takes the reader back in time to experience and understand the impact of World War I on Texas and Texans in the early twentieth century.
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Read Works

Read Works: Time Travel to Jamestown

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about visiting a realistic English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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BBC

Bbc Science & Nature: Black Holes and Time Travel

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes how black holes may provide clues to the possibility of time travel and parallel universes.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Editorial Review: The Time Tribe

For Students 3rd - 8th
A review of the game "The Time Tribe." Four children, a wily bird, a devious enemy, a mysterious manor house, a magical key-ring, and an elevator that travels through time. Will you get lost in the sands of time?
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Interesting Philosophical Questions About Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover some of the deep questions that scientists and philosophers ask about time and some of the ideas that emerge from each one.
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Other

Alien Travel Guide: Elements of Music the Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Fine site created for Canadian schools devoted to basic elements of music, including pitch, acoustics, time signatures, keys, and rhythm.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Time Travel: Learn to Tell Time

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Students practice telling time by changing both a digital and analog clock to the correct time.
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NASA

Nasa: Climate Time Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel through time and explore how the changing climate has affected sea ice, sea level, carbon dioxide levels, and global temperatures. Also, decide whether or not you would be affected if the sea level rose due to warmer temperatures...
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Other

French at a Touch Travel Service

For Students 9th - 10th
A full-time Travel Agent specializing in France custom travel and River Cruising; we offer you the best travel suppliers in the travel industry. We also offer you the best travel deals for all your travel needs for one person or for...
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Four Standard Time Zones Introduced

For Students 3rd - 8th
How and why did the United States come to have four time zones? Learn about how cities and railroad travel impacted the development of these zones. Includes video (requires RealPlayer).
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Other

We Are Teachers: 10 Great Classroom Activities for a Wrinkle in Time

For Students 4th - 8th
This resource from We Are Teachers provides a collection of inspiring ideas for teachers who using Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time in their classes.
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New York Times

New York Times: Space

For Students 9th - 10th
The New York Times maintains this archive of articles relating to space and space exploration.

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