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American Museum of Natural History: Optical Illusions and How They Work
What you see and what you think you see are different things. Find out what your brain doing behind-the-scenes!
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American Museum of Natural History: A Walk Through the Ruins of Petra
Explore an ancient city carved into the sandstone cliffs.
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American Museum of Natural History: See the Light
Take a look at light with these three easy experiments
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American Museum of Natural History: Play With Color and Light
See what happens when you mix different colors of lights.
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American Museum of Natural History: Trip Up Your Brain
Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain.
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American Museum of Natural History: Crazy Camouflage
Create a flounder fish that's hard to spot. In this hands-on activity, students gather evidence to explore how camouflage helps animals survive.
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American Museum of Natural History: What Is Water?
This comprehensive article provides information about the physical properties of water, the importance of water as an Earth material, the processes and cycles that water undergoes on Earth, its importance to life on Earth, and why we...
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American Museum of Natural History: Living Large
This engaging game about dinosaurs allows students to analyze and interpret fossil data, as well as engage in argument from evidence. The game helps students to understand that fossils provide evidence about the types of organisms that...
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American Museum of Natural History: Grow Rock Candy
Students can carry out an investigation using sugar and water to determine whether heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. This activity reinforces the ideas that the properties of materials can change when...
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American Museum of Natural History: Find My Plankton Baby Picture
By observing photos of plankton at different life stages, students can obtain information that will allow them to construct evidence-based accounts of how parents and offspring don't always look alike.
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American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Weather Station
Students can plan and carry out investigations of local weather patterns by building their own weather stations to collect observations of various weather conditions: rainfall, wind direction, and air pressure.
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American Museum of Natural History: Map Your World
Students can follow these easy steps to develop a model (drawing) of their room and the things in it. Then they can broaden the drawing to include their entire floor, apartment, or house.
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American Museum of Natural History: Five Tools and Processes for Translating the Ngss Into Instruction and Classroom
The Five Tools and Processes for Translating the NGSS are designed to help professional development leaders work with teachers on curriculum, instruction, and assessment as they achieve this vision. Click the link for each tool for an...
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American Museum of Natural History: The Ancient City of Petra
Explore the story and history of the ancient city of Petra.
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American Museum of Natural History: Picturing the Museum
Archive of historical photographs of the museum's dioramas and exhibits from the early twentieth century offers a glimpse into the work of exhibition designers from eras past.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: A Sea of Questions About Mangroves
An engaging piece featuring questions that scientists ask when they are researching the seas. Click on the red asterisks and discover even more information!
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American Museum of Natural History: Amazing Albedo
This lesson is a lab in which students use thermometers, white and dark paper, and lamps to measure differences in albedo between the light and dark materials. Connections are made to albedo in Antarctica.
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American Museum of Natural History: Case Study: Neutrino Observatories
Observatories allow for study of subatomic particles, neutrinos, which are found nearly everywhere in the universe are featured in this case presented by the American Museum of Natural History.
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American Museum of Natural History: Creature Feature
A matching game where students match different ocean creatures to their adaptations for survival.
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American Museum of Natural History: It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
Learn about the biodiversity found in the ocean by looking at examples of marine life.
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American Museum of Natural History: Traveling the Silk Road: Take a Journey
Learn about some of the ancient Asian and Middle Eastern cities along the Silk Road between AD 600 and 1200. Highlights Xian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad, as well as those who traveled by sea.
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American Museum of Natural History: Glowing in the Ocean
This site focuses on underwater animals that create their own light using bioluminescence. It also provides the lyrics and audio of a catchy tune putting bioluminescence in the spotlight.
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American Museum of Natural History: Pelecanimimus Polyodon O Logy Card
Flip this interactive card to start learning about Pelecanimimus polyodon. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this theropod dinosaur.
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American Museum of Natural History: Gastonia Burgei O Logy Card
Flip this interactive card to start learning about the Gastonia Burgei, an armored dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this primitive dinosaur.