American Museum of Natural History
All About Cloning
Start seeing double. The American Museum of Natural History website provides pupils with information about Dolly, the cloned sheep. Learners find out the procedure used to create Dolly along with why scientists clone animals.
American Museum of Natural History
Planetary Mysteries
Get to know our little part of the vast universe. Learners read about the common and not-so-common facts about each of the planets in the solar system. The interactive lesson includes a large amount of information as well as a quiz to...
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U.s. Livestock Species Genome Projects
An excellent site which explains all that is involved in and with animal genome projects in the United States.
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Illinois Wesleyan University: Tardigrade Species Distribution Project
This was a research project on tardigrades that took place some time ago. The site contains information about the project and about tardigrades, including their taxonomy and a glossary. As this is an older site, the links to the...
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Path Finder Science: Tardigrades
This site displays information about a tardigrades research study that students were involved in. Tardigrades are fascinating, tiny creatures that can survive under the most extreme conditions. The structure of the project is there for...
NASA
Nasa Human Research Program: 21st Century Explorer
This NASA research program allows students to explore space topics using science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills. Find twelve themes to investigate through video, song, and animation. Also find links to other NASA projects.
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Exploring Origins Project: Exploring Life's Origins
Explore life's evolutionary history on the planet through molecular illustrations and animations. Pictorial evidence is based on origin of life research and theory.
NASA
Ancient Observatories: Timeless Knowledge
This cross-curricular lesson involves geography, history, science and math, as well as 21st century literacies in technology, collaborative work and research. Students construct a sun-dial, then document their work and its results via...
My Science Site
Life Systems: Cells, Tissues, Organs
Extensive site for teachers provides some helpful resources that pertain to plant and animal cells. Includes a microscope diagram as well as plant, animal and pond labs. Also contains links to structures and mechanisms, matter and...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Cycles
Teachers can use this resource for creating interesting lessons about time and time measurement. There are articles about leap year, converting time, as well as other links for further research. An interdisciplinary project about an...
US Department of Energy
U.s. Department of Energy: Solar Energy Technologies Program: Solar Multimedia
Browse and download from this multimedia collection which contains photographs, videos, B-roll, graphics, and animations related to solar technologies, research, and projects.
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The Leatherback Trust
The Leatherback Trust is a non-profit organization of scientists and future scientists to preserve the Leatherback sea turtles and their nesting beaches.