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NASA

Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA offers a photo gallery of Mercury images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing what is being seen, and this caption is also available in streaming audio.
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US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Energy Calculators

For Students 6th - 8th
A series of useful calculators for converting different sources of energy from one energy unit to another. Find conversion calculators for coal, electricity, natural gas, crude oil, gasoline, and diesel fuel, along with an additional...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Shackleton's Antarctic Odyssey: Meal of Endurance

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Analyze caloric intake vs. caloric expenditure, understand the nutritional value of the explorer's meals, describe the trend in diet changes the explorers experienced and explain the physiological consequences these changes caused.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Superhumans and Bionics: A Heart of Titanium

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore how to keep your heart healthy by exercising regularly, sticking to a low-fat diet and not smoking. Use mathematics to understand nutritional information about various foods.
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PBS

Quest: How Is Energy Measured?

For Students 9th - 10th
Infographic highlights the different ways energy is measured.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Smarter Food Processing Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge about the foods you eat by taking a short quiz. Match products to their ingredients, answer questions about nutritional values and compute the amount of fruits and vegetables consumed per year.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Fat and Happy?: Testing for Simple Sugars [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate different methods for testing the sugar content in foods, and determine relative amounts of sugar in several juices using a sugar indicator solution.

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