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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 7: Nitrates and Phosphates and Algae, Oh My!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment, in a series of experiments, that investigates fisheries. In this lab, students test the effects of fertilizers and other pollutants on a model ecosystem. Students also examine 2 years of ocean color (chlorophyll...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Demographics Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore data in this lab to see how the population demographics are transitioning with this interactive lab.
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Other

Westminster School: Mixed Indicator Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
A unique upper level lab showing how to take advantage of the different transition points of two indicators to determine the concentrations of two unknowns at once.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Carbon Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive lab simulation demonstrates the effects of increased carbon in the atmosphere and how that increase contributes to climate change. A data table for student records is available for download.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Nature Conservancy and Cornell Lab Partnership

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy comes together to form a partnership that takes YardMap to its next phase: Habitat Network.
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Code.org

Code.org: Game Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Game Lab is a programming environment where you can make simple animations and games with objects and characters that interact with each other. Design an animation or game, code with blocks or JavaScript to make it work, then share your...
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Code.org

Code.org: App Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
App Lab is a programming environment where you can make simple apps. Design an app, code in JavaScript with either blocks or text, then share your app in seconds. Start with a blank project, explore the sample apps and take the challenge...
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Other

Zoo Lab a Website for Animal Biology: The Reptiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Some general facts about reptiles are presented with links to pages on different types of reptiles (turtles, alligators, lizards, snakes, and tuataras). The individual pages on the particular reptiles present characteristics and facts...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Powerful Symbols and Words: Abolitionism & Women's Rights

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This collection looks at an image and phrase used widely in abolitionist materials, and at how that symbol was adopted and adapted by Sojourner Truth and/or other women's rights activists. Students will examine an abolitionist medallion...
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University of Richmond

Digital Scholarship Lab: Voting America: Congressional Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated maps analyze data pertaining to congressional elections b.etween 1992-2008.
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University of Richmond

Digital Scholarship Lab: Redlining Richmond 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the New Deal, the HOLC assessed neighborhoods using a number of factors in order to identify safe places for mortgages. The assessment surveys and map produced for Richmond, which this site allows you to explore in detail,...
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Magnetic Thin Films

For Students 9th - 10th
This gallery takes readers from the 1880s and the pioneering work of German physicist August Kundt, up to recent advances in technology, including interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) and giant magnetoresistance (GMR).
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Metallic Superlattices

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at superlattices (alternating layers of thin films deposited in an orderly manner), methods for forming them, and their applications.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Greenhouse Effect Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students measure temperature changes inside soda bottles filled with CO2 and air as incandescent light is shined on them to model the Greenhouse Effect.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What We Learned From 5 Million Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works,...
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Radioactivity

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of radioactivity, the process in which particles are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Beta Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Entry explores the process of beta decay which occurs when, in a nucleus with too many protons or too many neutrons, one of the protons or neutrons is transformed into the other.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Radioactivity in Nature

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry provides a summary of radioactivity in nature and the decay chain.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Collective Model

For Students 9th - 10th
Entry describes the Collective Model of nuclear structure.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides a brief discussion of the sun and its energy flow.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Van De Graaff

For Students 9th - 10th
Featured is a brief description of the Van de Graaff accelerator and its uses.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Industrial Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
Features an exploration of the many common industrial applications that use radioisotopes including smoke detectors, agriculture, arts and humanities, and the automobile industry.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fusion Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a brief explanation of nuclear fusion power which offers the promise of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations if the reactors can be made to work.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Units of Radioactivity and Dose

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the units for measuring the amount of radioactivity and the categories of radiation dose.

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