Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Constructing the Alaska Highway
The construction of the Alaska Highway through northern Canada and Alaska is profiled in this interactive web site. Road maps, cost of construction,reason for building, photos..and more are included to create a clear image of this...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Probability What Are the Odds?
This lesson plan introduces the student to the concept of probability. Students will explore the meaning of theoretical and experimental probability by viewing interactive websites. A lab activity will be performed using cooperative...
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Pbs Learning Media: Operation: Heart Transplant
Perform a virtual heart transplant in nineteen easy steps with this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Electric Heart" Web site. This interactive feature provides an in depth and realistic look at this procedure.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lever an Obelisk
Investigate the mechanical advantage of the lever in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: Elements of Steel
This resource from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site, which contains both an interactive activity and illustrated text, looks at the composition of different types of steel and their impact on technology.
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Pbs Learning Media: String Theory: Elementary Particles
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site looks at the fundamental forces and particles that make up all matter. A thorough description of each elementary particle is provided including their mass, charge, spin, strength, and range.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Structure of Metal
In this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site, animations explain different aspects of the properties of metal.
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Pbs Learning Media: Engineer a Crop: Transgenic Manipulation
You're the geneticist now. In this interactive feature developed for the companion Web site for NOVA/FRONTLINE: "Harvest of Fear," use the latest in genetic technology to engineer your own "supercrop" of tomatoes.
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Pbs Learning Media: Seeing Through Camouflage
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.
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Pbs Learning Media: Everest: Test Your Brain Under Low Oxygen Conditions
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Everest" Web site lets you take the same brain quizzes that researchers have used to test the brain function of climbers on Mount Everest.
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Pbs Learning Media: Body Breakdowns at High Altitudes
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Surviving Denali" Web site details the variety of ways the body can fail while climbing a high-altitude peak.
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Pbs Learning Media: Brain Geography
Which part of your brain controls your ability to swallow? Your instinct to survive? And how do all the brain's parts function cooperatively? Find out with this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Coma" Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Tunnel Challenge
This interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," explores tunneling and the tools and methods used to do the job.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Dome Challenge
In this interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," think like an engineer and use your knowledge of dome design to match the right type of dome to the right location in a fictitious city.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pyrotechnics: It's Elemental
In this interactive periodic table from the NOVA Web site, find out the role of various elements in making fireworks.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sources of Radiation
This interactive activity from the NOVA: "Dirty Bomb" Web site explores sources of radiation, both harmful and beneficial, natural and manmade.
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Pbs Learning Media: Floating and Sinking: Hot Air Balloons
Why do hot air balloons float? This resource from the NOVA Web site offers a series of interactive activities that illustrates the physics of hot air balloons.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Staying Safe Online (K 2)
Students understand that they should stay safe online by choosing websites that are good for them to visit, and avoiding sites that are not appropriate for them. They learn about the similarities of staying safe in the real world and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Night Vision
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards of the Night" Web site highlights the nighttime habits and abilities of a wide range of nocturnal creatures.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: An Interest Ing Math Lesson
Eventually, everyone will need to borrow money for one reason or another. A good understanding of how interest works will go a long way when applying for a loan. In this lesson, students will complete a KWL chart about the purchase of a...
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A Digital Artist: On the Road in China
Vivid imagery of China is captured on this fascinating web site. Find photo journals, paintings, interactive movies, and more.
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Pbs Learning Media: Buoyancy Brainteasers: Boat in Pool Puzzler
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA: "Voyage of Doom" Web site challenges you to figure out what happens to the water level when a rock is resting in a boat and when it is submerged in water.