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Biomes
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This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Body Control Center
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Throughout the day, your nervous system monitors and makes endless adjustments to your body's basic systems--all to keep you alive. This interactive feature illustrates the complexity of such a task.

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Science
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Interactive
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PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Build-a-Fish
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In this interactive activity from Shedd Aquarium, students will build a fish and then release it into the reef to search for food and evade predators. Students will try different combinations and observe how each kind of fish has unique adaptations that help it survive in its habitat.

Subject:
Science
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Audio/Video
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PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Chemical Bonds
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This interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain demonstrates how attractive forces between atoms create chemical bonds, resulting in the formation of molecules and compounds.

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Science
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Interactive
Lesson
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PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Cloud Types
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This interactive resource, adapted from NASA's S'COOL Project Tutorial, explains how you can classify and identify various types of clouds.

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Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Deforestation in Bolivia
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This visualization adapted from NASA features two satellite images from 1984 and 2000 that show the dramatic deforestation of the Bolivian rainforest. Includes background reading material and discussion questions.

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Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride
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This interactive roller coaster ride produced for Teacher's Domain illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows students how energy is transformed back and forth between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Frequency
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In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab, students will investigate frequency in terms of trampoline jumps, pendulum swings, and electromagnetic waves.

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Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Giving Rise to the Jet Stream
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This interactive activity from NOVA Online uses animation and graphics to offer a detailed explanation of the jet stream. A thorough account is given of the role played by the Sun's heat and Earth's shape and rotation, among other factors.

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Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Graphing the Periodic Table
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This interactive activity from the American Chemical Society presents the properties and electron configurations for all the elements in the periodic table. Discover patterns by plotting the elements' properties according to their place in the table.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate Change
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Using images and graphs, this interactive resource illustrates scientists' efforts to study Earth's climatic history for the last 250,000 years by drilling into the Greenland Ice Sheet and examining ice cores. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. Adapted from the Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Heat Transfer
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In this interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, students will learn how heat can be transferred in one of three ways: conduction, convection, and radiation.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil
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This interactive resource adapted from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley shows how a dinosaur can be buried under sediment after it dies, become a fossil, and then become exposed and discovered by paleontologists.

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Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Lesson
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Information Fluency: Search Challenges
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Sharpen your skills with these Search Challenges. Test your strategies and tactics as you attempt to solve puzzling Internet research problems efficiently and effectively. Choose from multi-leveled games that feature various themes including soccer. Need more challenges? Search Challenge Archive.

Subject:
Computer Science
Technology
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
21st Century Information Fluency Project (21CIF)
Date Added:
12/01/2023
Key Words Lesson
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In this lesson students will learn how to use keywords to refine a search

Subject:
Technology
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
06/10/2019
Lever an Obelisk
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Investigate the mechanical advantage of the lever in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

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Science
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Interactive
Lesson
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PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023
Mendel's Laws of Genetic Inheritance
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This interactive activity, adapted from the Dolan DNA Learning Center, uses Punnett squares to illustrate Mendel's laws of inheritance and how a particular gene combination results in a 3-to-1 ratio of dominant-to-recessive traits.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Date Added:
11/06/2023