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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make Drawings of Three Dimensional Objects

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using the Glass Box Theory, students will make scaled technical drawings of 3D objects. This site includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What's the Difference Between a Scientific Law and Theory?

For Students 9th - 10th
What is the difference between a theory and a law, and is one better? Matt Anticole shows why science needs both laws and theories to understand the whole picture. [5:12]
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PBS

Pbs: People & Discoveries: Ernest Rutherford

For Students 9th - 10th
A lovely biographical piece about Ernest Rutherford. A number of personal notes, along with extensive information about the physics work he did. Nice quote at the end.
eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: Planar Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is another puzzle that is related to graph theory. In a small village there are three utility plants producing water, electricity and gas respectively. There are also three houses which need to be served. Unfortunately, due to the...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebra: Practice Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose from three different practice exams that cover all Integrated Algebra topics reviewed in the Regents Exam Prep Center website: number theory, operation, variables, expressions, equations, inequalities, patterns, functions,...
eBook
Crescent Public Schools

The Internet Science Room: Acids and Bases

For Students 9th - 10th
Students study the three different theories that are used to define acids and bases. Each of these theories focuses on a slightly different property and broadens the definitions to include a wider range of substances.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Sheldon Glashow Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Autobiography of Sheldon Glashow, one of three men to win the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: George Gaylord Simpson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about one of the greatest and most influential paleontologists of all time, George Gaylord Simpson.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Cern: Experiments With Antimatter

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the two primary experiments conducted at CERN on antimatter: ASACUSA, an attempt to form "Atomcules," using antiprotons; and ATHENA, an experiment to compare the properties of hydrogen and antihydrogen.
Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Ideal and Real Gas Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
The ideal gas law is stated and explained at this site from the Towson University. It is then used to derive the other gas laws (Charles, Boyle's, Gay-Lussac's, Avogadro's, combined, etc.). Other gas law relationships are discussed....
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Mathematical Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The mathematical treasure hunt allows learners to follow a trail of clues and mathematical problems around the school site; each clue contains a hint to where the next clue is hidden.
Website
Other

Who Dunnit to the Dinosaurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
"One of the great mysteries in science is the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic Era some 65 million years ago. Who (or more likely what) caused it is unknown and a subject of great debate." Many theories are touched...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: What Are Enzymes and How Do They Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what enzymes are, the three broad categories, their working mechanism and two theories developed to explain this, and factors that impact enzyme activity.
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Other

Shadowlands: The Lost Colony of Roanoke, 1588

For Students 4th - 8th
Presents five popular theories of what may have happened to the colonists at Roanoke. Useful as a starting point.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Laws of Motion

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science behind the basic three Laws of Motion. Forces theory discovered by Isaac Newton.
Article
Other

Acton Institute: Adam Smith (1723 1790)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography on Adam Smith contains some of Smith's views on religion and morality from his book "Theory of Moral Sentiments".
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Science Struck

Science Struck: A Comprehensive List of All the Physics Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a long list of physics formulas for easy reference.
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English for Everyone

Reading Comprehension Assessment: "The Incredible Machine" [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for reading students in the middle grades. Seven multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on the assessment.
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English for Everyone

Reading Comprehension Assessment: "Summer Rain" [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for students in the high school grades. Five multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on thia nonfiction reading assessment.
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English for Everyone

Reading Comprehension Assessment: "Fruit Fly Fix" [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for reading students in elementary grades. Four multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on this nonfiction reading...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Mysteries of the Universe

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Consider the issues surrounding the world of space exploration including the new fields of archaeoastronomy and astrobiology. Investigate zero gravity, the Big Bang theory, life in space and how sound travels in a vacuum.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Ancient Times & the Greeks

For Students 9th - 10th
In ancient times only five planets were known: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Learn about Greek astronomer Ptolemy's theory for the solar system that was to survive for fourteen centuries.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Natural Selection

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The theory of evolution by natural selection means that the inherited traits of a population change over time. Inherited traits are features that are passed from one...

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