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Geo Model: Ground Penetrating Radar

For Students 6th - 8th
GPR can detect underground features such as abandoned mines or hazardous waste tanks. This is a commercial site for a company that uses this technology, but it offers pictures and information on what's possible.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Electron Cloud Theory Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the Uncertainty Principle, wave-particle duality, what the electron cloud model is, and how it came about as a result of the Schrodinger equation for Hydrogen.
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Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Temperature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This page will teach you everything you wanted to know about temperature. Learn what temperature is, how to convert it, and how to stay safe in the heat.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sound Review

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] How does sound travel and what parts of the ear detect sound best? Using multiple websites, students discover animals that make the loudest sounds, which tapped glass will create the highest pitch, what...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound for Sight

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Echolocation is the ability to orient by transmitting sound and receiving echoes from objects in the environment. As a result of a Marco-Polo type activity and subsequent lesson, students learn basic concepts of echolocation. They use...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Stevie Smith

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography is brief but covers the poet's life and themes. What makes the site valuable is its links to other Smith sites, including one RealAudio site that features the reading of her poem "Not Waving but Drowning."
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Survive That Tsunami!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a table-top-sized tsunami generator to observe the formation and devastation of a tsunami. They see how a tsunami moves across the ocean and what happens when it reaches the continental shelf. Students make villages of model...