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PBS

Pbs: Nova: Time Travel: Think Like Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
Addressed with questions about relative speed and the speed of light, students begin to "think like Einstein" while exploring the science behind the mystery of time travel.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Time Travel Kit

For Students 5th - 8th
Would you like to travel forward in time? Use this time travel kit to help you think through different ways to experience time travel. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Time Travel Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your professor has accidentally stepped through a time portal in his physics lab. You've got just a minute to jump through before it closes and leaves him stranded in history. Your only way back is to grab enough colored nodules to...
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Time O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.
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Read Works

Read Works: As Time Flies By

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about time travel in the movies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Handout
Other

Texas Historical Commission: Texas Time Travel: World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide takes the reader back in time to experience and understand the impact of World War I on Texas and Texans in the early twentieth century.
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Read Works

Read Works: Time Travel to Jamestown

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about visiting a realistic English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Alien Travel Guide: Elements of Music the Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Fine site created for Canadian schools devoted to basic elements of music, including pitch, acoustics, time signatures, keys, and rhythm.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Time Travel: Learn to Tell Time

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Students practice telling time by changing both a digital and analog clock to the correct time.
Article
Other

We Are Teachers: 10 Great Classroom Activities for a Wrinkle in Time

For Students 4th - 8th
This resource from We Are Teachers provides a collection of inspiring ideas for teachers who using Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time in their classes.
Website
New York Times

New York Times: Space

For Students 9th - 10th
The New York Times maintains this archive of articles relating to space and space exploration.
Interactive
Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum: Interactive Journey: Travel Back to Victorian London

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel back in time to the Victorian era in this interactive journey to help Ruby & Michael search for Sam, their missing dog. While you are searching, you can learn about Victorian life by examining the objects in the house,...
Interactive
Other

Canadian Tourism Commission: Maps canada.travel

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive map is an excellent student and teacher resource. Select Places to Go to show regions, provinces or territories and capital cities. Hover over the area to get links to more detailed information. Get up to the minute...
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Other

Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This amazing resouce is actually a set of three courses in teaching American history of the Northwestern U. S. from the 1700s to the year 2000. Each course is fifteen weeks long. But the course is laid out so that you can browse any...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas W. Knox

For Students 4th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas W. Knox (1886). It is an illustrated novel relating the adventures of two youths in a journey in European and...
Interactive
TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 4: Escape Through Time

For Students 3rd - 5th
Travel through time looking for Dr. Know It All. Look for clues, fill in the missing words in the journal to find him, and then solve some simple puzzles to follow the doctor through time.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Time to Traverse the Table

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must find the time that it takes for the block to move across the table. This will involve an acceleration and a period of travel at a constant speed.
Graphic
Maps of Mexico

Virtual Picture Travel Map of New York

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on New York and take a virtual tour of Manhattan. Visit places of interest such as Ellis Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Times Square, Rockefeller Center and the Central Park Zoo. Uses popups.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Travel Through Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel through the decades to learn about the innovations that shape your life. Use the Decade Navigator below to start exploring. Transport yourself through the last 100 years to meet the innovations that have shaped our world.
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NASA

Nasa: Human Space Flight

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a wealth of information regarding space exploration. Content includes spaceflight history, real-time data, shuttle information, a gallery of photos, and more information from the NASA archives.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Estimating Distance and Travel Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad estimates how much air supply they will need to complete an underwater mission.
Website
Other

Travel to Japan: History of Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides very detailed links to every time frame within the history of Japan. Excellent source.
Website
BBC

Bbc Education: Languages: Deutsch Plus

For Students 9th - 10th
This web site complements the BBC's 20-part "Talk German" TV series. German grammar and vocabulary are introduced by way of topics and themes which include shopping, using the telephone, telling time, travelling, and sports. Listen to...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Career of Columbus by Charles I. Elton

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Career of Columbus by Charles I. Elton (1892), a nonfiction book of the travels of Columbus which includes a map.

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