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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Happened to Antimatter?

For Students 9th - 10th
CERN scientist Rolf Landua returns to the seconds after the Big Bang to explain the disparity that allows humans to exist today. [5:16]
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:origins Back to the Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th
This hour long program by NOVA is split into six segments and examines a issues influencing scientists' current understanding of how the universe was formed. This includes The Big Bang and its lasting effects.
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BBC

Bbc: Origin of the Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
Try this introduction to ideas about how the universe began and how it might end. Topics include; the big bang and its echoes, antimatter, and inflation/expansion of the universe.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: How Was the Earth Created

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives a detailed explanation of the stages that the Earth and the solar system went through beginning with their origins in the Big Bang up to the present time.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is the Universe Expanding Into?

For Students 9th - 10th
Sajan Saini explains the existing theories around the Big Bang and what, if anything, lies beyond our universe.
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European Space Agency

European Space Agency: Story of the Universe

For Students 3rd - 8th
The story of the universe is told in this engaging site by the European Space Agency. The history of European space science is timelined with dates ranging from 1066 to present day. The birth of galaxies, the big bang, and the beginnings...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The History of Our World in 18 Minutes

For Students 9th - 10th
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. [17:40]
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ACT360 Media

Act Den: Sky Den

For Students 9th - 10th
This journey will help you solve big questions about the universe. You will be able to see beyond human capabilities and will learn what scientists are discovering.
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Montana State Univ.: Expanding Universe (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has a lesson plan in which students gather evidence supporting the Big Bang Theory using a balloon model of the expanding universe.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Expansion of the Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief explanation of the creation and expansion of the universe otherwise known as the Big Bang.
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California Institute of Technology

Spitzer Science Center: Brief History of the Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginning with an image termed the "Brief History of the Universe" this site examines (briefly, as noted) a timeline of the universe as dictated by the image. The timeline includes information on the big bang theory, the dark ages, the...
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BBC

Bbc News: 'Big Bang' Experiment Starts Well

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a narrated animation on the Large Hadron Collider, its experiments, structure, and computer system. Then, browse this site's sections to explore facts about and functions of CMS, ATLAS, ALICE, LHCb, the LHC Computing Grid, and the...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Universe, an Introduction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Start with the questions all students ask: How big is the universe, how far away are the planets and stars, how did they form and when, how do they move and why? Build on their natural curiosity. The Smithsonian, in cooperation with...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Crash! Bang!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about the physical force of linear momentum - movement in a straight line - by investigating collisions. They learn an equation that engineers use to describe momentum. Students also investigate the psychological...
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Histography

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll through this ingenious interactive timeline to see events that have happened since the Big Bang. The timeline uses historical events gleaned from Wikipedia. Click on an event to see information and related events, and for some, a...
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Other

The Astronomy Cafe

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA scientist Sten Odenwald calls this his "web site for the astronomically disadvantaged." Do you have lots of questions about space that you can't seem to get answers to? Would you like to learn about a career in astronomy, Big Bang...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Glossary: The Future

For Students 9th - 10th
A helpful glossary to terms in the Big History Project.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Edwin Hubble

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about the life of Edwin Hubble. Learn about how he grew up, education, and how he developed his theories of an expanding universe.
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Other

Stephen W. Hawking: Lectures: Life in the Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
This lecture covers the topic of life now and into the future, including the role genetic engineering will play.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Relativity and the Cosmos

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site introduces the basic concepts of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and what we know about cosmology as a result.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Cosmology

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive module will help students understand cosmology. Learn about the standard cosmological model and explore if life is possible in other places besides the Earth.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Cern: Antimatter

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully written non-technical introduction to antimatter, as well as a brief discussion of the investigation into the asymmetry between the quantities of matter and antimatter observed in our universe.
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National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Astronomy and Space: Research Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore some of our most fundamental questions about space exploration with this research overview collected by scientists at the National Science Foundation. Additionally, experience deep space first-hand with telescope interactives.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Earth Origin, Composition, and Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, you will learn about how the Earth formed as well as the composition and structural layers of the Earth's interior.

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