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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Science: A Work in Progress

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The scientific method is more than just a series of steps to be followed like a recipe. It is a fluid, ever-changing process. This video discusses student's perception of the scientific method and how to make learning science in the...
Primary
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Science Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th
A catalog collection of science fiction works and authors.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Religion & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Steele's Sciences: New Descriptive Astronomy by Joel D. Steele

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Steele's Sciences: New Descriptive Astronomy by Joel D. Steele (c1884), an astronomy text for children.
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Poems: Sonnet to Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Read "Sonnet--to Science" by accessing this archive of the poem's publishing history.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Home Teachings in Science

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Home Teachings in Science by William Cowper, a nonfiction book for children.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Young Man's Gift of Literature, Science, and Morality

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Young Man's Gift of Literature, Science, and Morality by Cotesworth Pinckney, a nonfiction book for children.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: That's So Meta(cognitive)!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A professional development video to help your students become a more effective science learner. [10:49]
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Sending "Learning Styles" Out of Style

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Studies have found that there is no benefit to matching teaching styles to individual learning styles. Mulitple representations of a topic are more helpful to a learner than just one regardless of preferred learning style. This is...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Why Right Brained Is Wrong Brained

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This video discusses the myth of being pegged right brained or left brained and how this can pigeonhole students from an early age. Science may be seen as a left-brained, however, you need many right-brained elements such as...
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Science, Religion, John Tyndall

For Students 9th - 10th
Radio-program transcript of Irish-born Victorian physicist John Tyndall's ideas of the intersection of science and religion.
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Other

University of Delaware: Dept. Of Political Science: The Contract With America

For Students 9th - 10th
Newt Gingrich, as House Minority Whip, architect of the Contract With America, hoped to make the Republican Party more relevant in the 1990s. Find the text of the contract here including background material of why it was put forward.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Attack the Knack

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Science is more than "eureka" moments. Science is about trying, asking good questions, failing, and learning from mistakes. Learn how to help motivate those students who believe science isn't their "thing"!
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Other

Communicate Science: 3 Science Poems by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Make poetry part of a cross-curricular study with these three poems by Emily Dickinson.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Women in Science: Space Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Through primary source documents, discover the history of NASA's "human computers," early aerospace industry pioneers, and the struggle for American women to be allowed into the astronaut program.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Time: It's Like, So Deep

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video reviews over geologic time scale and methods to teach this appropriately in the classroom. [9:15]
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Chemical Reactions in Action

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This video is a professional development resource that explores student misconceptions about atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions. It also gives some pedagogical approaches for approaching these subjects. [10:12]
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center:tis the Season for a Reason

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A professional development video exploring students misconception over the reason for Earth's season. This video addresses a way to help students understand how Earth's orbit contributes to the seasons. [11:56]
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Turning the Pages Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of science at this wonderful resource that provides virtual books in the biomedical sciences field for viewing at home. These are books and manuscripts that are hundreds of years old and would not be accessible...
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Other

American Scientist: Author Interview: Neil De Grasse Tyson

For Students 9th - 10th
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has made "Popularizing science a personal passion." Tyson's latest book, Origins, is the starting point here for a discussion of dark matter, intelligent life in our solar system, the possibility of...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides a lecture given by Nanny Froman at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Sotckholm, Sweden. "Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium" is organized into several sections including:...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 Presentation Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics Presentation Speech originally given by Professor G. Granqvist, who was "Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences." this speech touches on the...
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Trinity University

Trinity University: Social Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
This site examines the overlap between the behavioral sciences (psychology and sociology). It compares the approaches of psychologists and sociologists in researching behavior. An outline of the areas examined in social psychology is...
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US National Archives

Nara: Pcast Principles

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Archives and Records Administration site, provides access to PCAST Principles: Executive Office of the President, President's Committee of Advisors On Science and Technology, Washington, D.C. 20500 (June 18, 1996). The...

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