NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Global Maps: Net Radiation
View a global map from NASA's Earth Observatory that shows net radiation from July 2006 to November 2008. Learn about radiation and the balance between incoming and outgoing energy in the atmosphere.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Adaptive Radiation: Darwin's Finches
Finches on the Galapagos Islands have evolved to exploit almost every possible niche. This diagram shows the range of food sources available on the island and the different beak shapes adapted to exploit each of them. Includes background...
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Star Light Star Bright: Electromagnetic Radiation
Use this tool to learn facts about the range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Radiation and Energy: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the light spectrum and its influence on living things. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Radiation and Energy."
California Institute of Technology
Ipac: Iras Gallery
This site from IPAC is a series of images of various celestial objects and regions as viewed in infrared light. Each photo is accompanied by a caption.
Other
The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident and It's Ramifications
An excellent series of reference papers on the worst nuclear accident we have had. Maps and a photo gallery are also provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Isotopes: Lesson 7
This lesson will introduce isotopes, and explain how they differ from other elements. It will also show that some isotopes are unstable and emit particles and/or radiation. It is 7 of 9 in the series titled "Isotopes."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Unstable Isotopes: Lesson 3
This lesson will show that some isotopes are unstable and can emit radiation. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Unstable Isotopes."
Curated OER
The Mystery of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
A video is featured on this site exploring the High Resolution Fly's Eye at the University of Utah. This project was designed to help explain cosmic rays formerly referred to as cosmic radiation. These fast-moving particles origin and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Albedo Decrease Linked to Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice
Examine this visualization by NASA to understand how the warming of the Arctic region has caused the sea ice extent to decline by 40%, thereby throwing our earth's energy budget off balance. Extensive resources included are teaching...
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Earth's Energy Budget
This 2-part resource details how the Earth absorbs just enough energy from the Sun to sustain life. Content explores incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cancer Warrior: How Cancer Grows
Follow the progression of a malignant tumor, beginning with the first mutation within a cell and ending with metastasis, the colonization of related tumors throughout the body.
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago: Revealing Picasso
Using new technology related to examining artwork, The Art Institute of Chicago was able to uncover unknown details about one of Picasso's most famous works, "The Old Guitarist." Fascinating discoveries and technological processes make...
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Global Climate Animations
Check out this site for global climate animations. "Get a feel for why we have seasonal weather changes or why other regions have different weather than you do."
Curated OER
Ucar: About Temperature
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides a lengthy page covering numerous topics including the difference between heat and temperature, the use of different temperature scales, thermal expansion, how a...
Curated OER
Fund. Of Phys. Geography/energy, Temperature, and Heat
A page describing (in part) the distinction between energy, temperature and heat. Includes graphic illustrating the quantity of energy needed to transform water between its various states. Methods of thermal energy transfer (convection,...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Southern Limit of Glaciation, 1911
A map from 1911 showing the centers of ice accumulation, the position of the Driftless Area, the general direction of radiation, and the southern limit of glaciation in North America during the last glacial period. The map shows the...
Curated OER
Unidentified Woman and Edward Dorris Mc Alister (B. 1901)
An unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901) are shown working at the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Radiation and Organisms in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The apparatus shown was being used to measure the strength of...
Curated OER
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marie Agnes Hinrichs (B. 1892)
Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1923. After teaching at the university from 1926 to 1934, Hinrichs received an M.D. from Rush Medical College and joined the faculties at...
Curated OER
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Laurel Van Der Wal (D. 2009)
Pioneering female aeronautical engineer Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009) (later Laurel van der Wal Roennau) had had a brief career as a model, art instructor, and deputy sheriff before training to be a pilot during World War II; she returned...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Head of Senusert the First
The head was carved in the style of the Eleventh Dynasty with small slanting eyes and horizontal eyebrows, a straight mouth surrounded by an incised line, and the alternate dark and light bands of the royal head cloth carved in radiating...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Horn Antenna
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the microwave background radiation that permeates the universe using this antenna. This work earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics and led to the confirmation of the Big Bang theory.
Curated OER
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View the entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and get information on telescopes especially designed to view different wavelengths of the spectrum.
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Axaf
View the entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and get information on telescopes especially designed to view different wavelengths of the spectrum.
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