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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Field Guide Family Activity

For Students K - 1st
Use this Field Guide to Birds from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali to identify and learn more about birds in your neighborhood. Then seek out additional information and create your own pages to add to Molly's guide.
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Other

Field Trip Earth: Obx Sea Turtles: Atlantic Sea Turtles

For Students 9th - 10th
Field Trip Earth takes a fascinating look at the Atlantic Sea Turtles (Green, Leatherback, Loggerhead, and Kemp's ridley), all of which are threatened or endangered. Join researchers as they track migration, investigate nesting...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The Sun Earth Connection: Exploring the Dynamic Nature of the Sun

For Teachers 5th - 9th
The unit contains lessons and a presentation that allow students to explore the Sun through images and investigate how magnetism from the Sun interacts with the Earth's magnetic field during space weather events.
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Other

Jupiter Scientific: Salaries of Scientists by Discipline

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in exploring a career in science? Investigate the pay scales of scientists by discipline.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about magnets and how they are formed. They investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. Specifically, students learn about magnetic memory storage, which is the reading and writing of...
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NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Estuary and the Watershed San Francisco Bay

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate a large watershed, look for sources of pollution in the watershed, and study the impacts of a rain storm on a watershed and estuary, without going on a field trip. Students investigate the nature of...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Eeeeew! Maggot Mass Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
If you're looking for an experiment that will gross out just about everyone, you probably can't do much better than this. This project investigates an important question in the field of forensic entomology. Just make sure to get...
eBook
Other

The Astronomy Cafe: A Guide Book to Astronomy

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the field of astronomy in this book by Sten Odenwald where he talks about his own and others' experiences, as well as his experiences doing research.
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Intel Corporation

Intel Engage: Designing Effective Projects: Dangerous Decibels

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate sound in their environment, particularly how sounds impact their lives. At the beginning of the unit, students use online simulations to investigate the properties of sound and learn about the components of a sound...
Website
Other

Geotimes: Stories From the Underground

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel into the careers of a few geoscientists. Investigate what this career field is all about by exploring the stories and pictures of these geoscience adventures.
Website
Nature Research

Nature: Online Video Streaming Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video articles about current events having to do with nature. Each video features a science topic in the news.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a hands on instructional activity in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Demonstrating the Distances of Stars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the use of the parallax effect for determining distance in space, and explore the arrangement and relative distance of stars in the galaxy. Create a sample star field and transform it into a three-dimensional model.

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