Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Abracadabra! Levitating With Eddy Currents!
Did you know that not all trains run on tracks? Some of the world's fastest trains are magnetic levitation trains (maglev). This means that the carriage of the train is suspended over the rails with no support, but only with magnetic...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Landslide Catalog
Landslides cause between 1-2 billion dollars in damage per year in the U.S. alone. NASA tracks landslides globally in order to analyze trends in landslide frequency, distribution, and impacts to help scientists better predict landslides...
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About North Georgia: Cherokee History in Georgia
About North Georgia provides an account that thoroughly tracks the history of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia and their influence on Georgia's culture.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Timeline of Events
This comprehensive timeline tracks the Holocaust from it's roots to the Nuremberg Trials. This interactive timeline is broken down into 5 groups based on dates. Each grouping contains a short summary and multiple primary sources such as...
Other
National Bureau of Economic Research: Economic Indicators and Releases
Updated daily, the NBER follows trends of the economy and tracks them. The reports are archived and an RSS feed is available.
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Industrialization's Discontents: Great Strike of 1877
With its beginnings along the railroad tracks in Maryland and West Virginia, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first national strike in response to poor wages and poor conditions. Understand the impact of this strike on the...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park
Build tracks, ramps and jumps in a skate park to learn about energy.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Mirabeau B. Lamar
This detailed account tracks the life of Mirabeau B. Lamar, a fascinating poet and politician, who quickly became involved in the fight for Texas independence. Numerous primary source documents, ranging from handwritten letters to...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park
Explore kinetic, potential, and thermal energy as you send a skateboarder along several pre-built tracks, then design your own. Charts and graphs show the distribution of the different forms of energy, illustrating how the total energy...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park
Learn about conservation of energy with a skater dude. Build tracks, ramps, and jumps for the skater and view the kinetic energy, potential energy and friction as he moves.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tension Racers!
Students see how different levels of surface tension affect water's ability to move. Teams "race" water droplets down tracks made of different materials, making measurements, collecting data, making calculations, graphing results and...
Read Works
Read Works: The Dino Express
[Free Registration/Login Required] Paleontologists in Colorado recently discovered more and different types of dinosaur tracks along the path known as the Dinosaur Freeway in Colorado and nearby states. This passage is followed by a...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Inter Korean Competition, 61 70
This collection of documents tracks inter-Korean relations from the time of the Park Chung Hee coup in 1961 through the opening of the inter-Korean dialogue in 1970.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parallel Construction
This slideshow lesson focuses on parallel structure; it defines parallelism and compares it to train tracks. It offers examples, purpose, and usage.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Expected Value
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson plan attempts to explain the betting system at horse tracks by having students vie for parcels of land on their calculators. Because the land boundaries are unknown until the...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Left, Right, Left: Our Safe Walk
Learn how to cross the street and train tracks safely in your neighborhood. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Early Economies
This unit tracks the development of economics through time, highlighting what early societies did to provide for themselves, how they established trade systems and political systems of taxed goods.
University of Florida
University of Florida: The International Shark Attack File
Introduction to the organization that tracks shark attacks. Links to pages on when, why, how and who the sharks attack.
Other
Nbc Olympics: Video, Schedules, and Results
Powered by up-to-date news from NBC sports, this website not only tracks events, profiles athletes, and shares behind-the-scenes commentary during the Olympic Games, but also offers a look pre- and post-Games happenings: trials,...
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Mattel: Hot Wheels: Speedometry
This resource is part of a two unit curriculum designed for fourth-graders using the 5E Instructional Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate) to support students as they investigate the effect that height and other...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Fossa (Cryptoprocta Ferox)
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the Cryptoprocta ferox, otherwise known as the fossa.
Other
Sunaeon: Solar System Scope
Experience the solar system as you've never seen it before; up close and personal. Visit each planet by clicking on it, then selecting the play button to track its rotations through the calendar year. Watch the constellations move...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Christmas Island: How Do We Describe the Weather?
Join Tim on Christmas Island to understand how to gauge weather conditions. Learn all about tracking weather, finding clothing suitable for various weather conditions, which animal likes a certain type of weather, and activities for...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Quest to Seek Out "World's Loneliest Whale"
Read how scientists are working to track a whale who sings at a pitch too high to be heard by other whales, which has resulted in it being named the "World's Loneliest Whale." Includes video.