Concise, yet complete, this set of seven slides describes with photos and text the different basic instruments for measuring weather factors. After viewing, young meteorologists will be able to talk about how to measure humidity, wind...

High voltage power lines deliver electricity to homes, but each home requires low voltage. How does the energy get converted so it can be used safely? Pupils explore alternating current and transformers through a simulation. They control...

Why do so many mountain ranges exist next to a desert? As part of a larger series, PBS 6-8 Weather and Climate answers this question. The presentation offers diagrams and photographs of the development of a rain shadow. From Oregon to...

Walking through the ancient Nabataean city of Petra can be a challenge. A tour begins with a 20-minute walk down a rocky slope through the narrow Siq to get to the famous Treasury known to Indiana Jones fans. But that is...

Young explorers may not be able to travel the Silk Road but they can listen to music that was played on instruments of the time and create their own songs with the help of an interesting interactive resource. 

In weather worksheet, students use an on line site to collect weather data. They create 10 different weather scenarios using a temperature and humidity slider. They includethe temperature, relative humidity and weather conditions and...

In this exploring the processes from seed to reproduction of a plant online interactive worksheet, students read a passage explaining the plant life cycle and answer multiple choice questions about what they read. Students choose 8 answers.

In this DC motor worksheet, the learner answers 3 open-ended questions pertaining to the design of a DC motor. The worksheet is printable and the answers are revealed online.

For this energy alternatives explorations worksheet, students explore alternative energy sources by using the linked web resources to answer 8 questions about different resources and identify the ones that would work in their community.

In this weather vocabulary interactive worksheet, students fill in the correct vocabulary word to complete each of the eight given sentences. There is also an interactive word search to complete.

In this ESL online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the use of present simple tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

For this weather worksheet, students complete questions to a quiz about the weather. Students complete 5 questions in the weather quiz.

For this word choice worksheet, students fill in blanks in a set of 20 sentences with the appropriate choice: lose or loose. Online version link available.

In this irregular verb worksheet, students choose the correct verb to fill in a blank in a set of 20 sentences; online version link is available on worksheet.

In this biology activity, learners examine a diagram of a flower and read a selection that describes all of the parts including the petals, the stamen, the anther, and the sepals. They answer 11 on-line fill in the blank questions using...

In this adjective/adverb worksheet, learners complete sentences with either an adjective or adverb. Students may click on an answer button beneath each sentence to check their work.

In this online interactive geography skills worksheet, students answer 5 multiple choice questions regarding El Nino. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this confusing words worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct confusing words. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions total.

What a lovely little applet! You can speed/slow it, change it from AC to DC, plot the voltage as it rotates, change direction, control other information. Real neat.

Make a wind vane, rain gauge, and barometer and learn how to measure wind direction, rainfall, and air pressure.