TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Arctic Animal Robot
Students create four-legged walking robots and measure how far they travel across different types of surfaces. They design and create "shoes" to add to the robots' feet and observe the effect of their modifications on the net distance...
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Tv's Impact on Kids
An informative site about the effects of TV on kids. Areas such as violence, sex, good things about TV, ,and special teen issues are also discussed.
Curated OER
Altlas of European Values: Eyes of the World
Special-effects photograph of a human face overlaid with a map of the world..
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: The Big Oil Spill
Ranger Rick "spills" all about the large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Find out what happened, why people are worried, what happens to the animals, and what can happen to people.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Water Science for Schools Pesticides Ground Water
This US Geological Survey site briefly discusses the basics of why pesticides are increasingly found in our ground water. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Water Science School:water Quality
Learn about the importance of water quality and environmental influences that reduce it.
![Left Foot Right Foot: Video Rubric [Pdf] Website](http://content.lessonplanet.com/resources/thumbnails/410073/large/bwluav9tywdpy2symdiwmduymc0xmza0mc0xnmvjzmpzlmpwzw.jpg?1589985253 "Left Foot Right Foot: Video Rubric [Pdf] Website")
Other
Left Foot Right Foot: Video Rubric [Pdf]
This rubric is designed to score videos. The site contains categories on planning, shooting, editing, enhancement, content and creativity. Print this PDF file out and use it for your students.
Digital History
Digital History: September 11, 2001
This site has a comprehensive overview of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., including information on Osama bin Laden's background, the formation of Al Qaeda, the attacks themselves, the US response, civil liberties and national...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Public Opinion: Voice of the People
Examine public opinion and the various means in which to collect it as well as how the government uses the opinions collected. This resource offers video, readings, web resources, and activities.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The History of Dueling in America
From a PBS special on dueling, this web page focuses on the effect that dueling had on early American history and society's acceptance of this violent custom.
Indiana University
Indiana University: Benefits of Cooperative Learning [Pdf]
Article describing the benefits of cooperative learning, and the positive effect that this classroom and schoolwide approach has on student learning, as well as how cooperative learning benefits students with special needs.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Microbial Life: The Microbes Within: Webquest
A student WebQuest studying the effects of endosymbiosis on reproduction, evolution and human health. Students will investigate the biology an intracellular bacteria and serve on a specialized task force to prevent the next epidemic.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: To Buy or Not to Buy
While precise numbers are not known, it is believed the number of boycotts has grown markedly in the past fifty years. Consumers seem to be besieged by requests from special interest groups to refrain from buying certain goods and...
PBS
Pbs: Indian Country Diaries, Tribal Sovereignty Lesson Plan
This lesson will ask students to review sections of A Seat at the Drum and Spiral of Fire where the many issues of tribal sovereignty are evident. Students will be asked to research the sovereignty issues facing a tribe that resides...
Other
Science Direct: Recent Advances on Two Dimensional Bin Packing Problems
This paper surveys recent advances obtained for the two-dimensional bin packing problem, with special emphasis on exact algorithms and effective heuristic and metaheuristic approaches.
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
Other
Makeup Fx: Lars Carlsson
Learn about Lars Carlsson's job. He is a Swedish makeup artist and wigmaker whose commercial site showcases his work in the world of theater and the like. Click to see some of his how-tos and videos.
Other
Writing About Holidays
Discover how to write about the holidays when you explore this lesson plan. Middle schoolers will have an opportunity to identify their audience.
Science Struck
Science Struck: 8 Albert Einstein Inventions That Impacted the World
Describes the refrigerator invented by Einstein and many of his discoveries in physics.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Resources on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Continuing information on the Gulf of Oil spill from Auburn University includes updates on the spill's impact. Auburn University experts have supplied their field of specialization and their emails. Experts with knowledge in...
Curated OER
Photos of Saddam After His Arrest.
An effective synopsis of the life of Hussein, from his young life through the rule of Iran to his capture in December, 2003.
Curated OER
Iraqi Man Throws Stones at Saddam Hussein Statue in Baghdad, 2003
An effective synopsis of the life of Hussein, from his young life through the rule of Iran to his capture in December, 2003.
Curated OER
Saddam Hussein
An effective synopsis of the life of Hussein, from his young life through the rule of Iran to his capture in December, 2003.
Other
Ideabook.com: The Language of Type
Ideabook.com supplies keyboard instructions (PC & MAC) to create various symbols for mathematics, commerce, finance, weights & measures, punctuation, & reference.
Other popular searches
- Special Effects in Movies
- Film Special Effects
- Powerpoint Special Effects
- Video Special Effects
- Special Effects on Stage
- Special Effects Science
- Special Effects in Film