Identify places in a typical room where "creepy crawlies" like dust mites, ants, lice and silverfish might live. Then check out places on the human body that dust mites may inhabit, and learn about the disease and other problems dust mites can cause.
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Explore the elements found in the Periodic Table of Elements and what role some of them play in the universe. Test your knowledge of the elements and the organization of the table by completing a puzzle.
Collect micrometeorites from space -- remnants of the time when the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Create a sky dust collector, sort particularate matter according to attributes and identify micrometeorites by their fusion crusts.
This video features the mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander and what it discovered. With behind-the-scenes access, NOVA scienceNOW covers the Mars lander Phoenix's thrilling descent to the martian surface and its critical early days of operations. Phoenix will digs into the permafrost to obtain samples of martian dirt and ice for analysis in onboard labs, seeking any evidence that the Red Planet might once have sustained microbial life -- or perhaps still does. [52:20]
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Watch a slideshow of images of Pocahontas, whose significance as an American icon has been interpreted in many different ways over the years. Includes an engraving of Pocahontas, thought to be the only portrait of her made during her lifetime.
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Every forty-eight years, a species of bamboo in India produces its seeds en masse, causing a major disruption in the ecosystem, which preciptates a mass influx of rats. This video explores this phenomenon and the repercussions. A teacher guide and student interactive accompany the video. The video is only viewable in the United States. [52:46]
Great site from PBS on the Roman baths. Includes a very interesting section on what a day at the baths would include through an interactive map. Also has a game in which you construct a bath.
Use this information to build a scale model of the Great Pyramid. Explore the information available about the height, base and angles of this pyramid. Great opportunity to apply the principles of using a scale model.
The companion site to the show by the same title. Interesting site allows the reader to decipher a coded message. Information on Venona Intercepts and interviews with children of famous spies.
This site is after a PBS special on NOVA, "Secrets of Easter Island". Archaeologists and a crew tried to find out how the huge statues were created and physically moved around the island. If you can't find the information here that you need then you can go to their resources page and find a site that will have what you need.
NOVA ferrets out long-forgotten secrets of architects and engineers of the early civilizations. Content focuses on the trebuchets of medieval Europe, the pharaoh's obelisks of ancient Egypt, the moai statues of Easter Island, the plumbing and baths of ancient Rome, and the rainbow bridges of ancient China.
Defines and describes the weapons commonly used in medieval times when attacking a castle.
Explore the mysterious Easter Island as a team of archaeologists attempts to recreate the process used to construct the monolithic Moai statues.
Curious about how our brain works? Canadian Dr. Penfield was the first to map the cortex of the brain. Use this interactive site to recreate the exploration of the brain.