FILTER RESULTS

Add/remove filters to refine your search

Browse results: Science

RESULTS 151-200 OF 386

SHOW 20 | 50 | 100 PER PAGE

< PREV 1 2 3 4 5 ... NEXT >

RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
Explore the Moon See what it is like to walk on the Moon by viewing this collection of QuickTime images from NOVA Online. Stunning 360-degree panoramas from each of the six successful Apollo Moon landings are featured.	3-12	Interactive
Exploring the Arctic Seafloor In this interactive activity adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn what some of the first imagery ever shot on the Arctic Ocean seabed tells us about life in extreme environments.	6-12	Interactive
Exploring Tidepools In this interactive activity adapted from the National Park Service, learn about tidepools and then try to identify the organisms that live there.	3-5	Interactive
Fighting Back Help the immune system fight off an infection in this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Surviving AIDS" Web site.	6-8	Interactive
Fishing for Safe Food This interactive game adapted from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a fun way to learn which types of fish contain low levels of mercury and are safe to eat and which contain high levels and should be avoided.	3-8	Interactive
Floating and Sinking: Hot Air Balloons Why do hot air balloons float? This resource from the NOVA Web site offers a series of interactive activities that illustrates the physics of hot air balloons.	6-12	Interactive
Forces Lab In this interactive activity from the Building Big Web site, select one of the actions of squeezing, stretching, bending, sliding, or twisting to explore the forces of compression, tension, shear, and torsion.	3-8	Interactive
Forecasting Volcanic Eruptions This media-rich essay from NOVA Online describes the challenges of forecasting volcanic eruptions and includes information about specific cases.	9-12	Interactive
Forgotten Inventors This illustrated feature from the American Experience Web site highlights the frequently forgotten inventors of several useful, innovative technologies.	3-12	Interactive
Fossils: An Ancient Sea in Indiana In this interactive activity from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indiana, examine a piece of the ancient Borden Sea in what is now central Indiana. Explore the types of fossils found there and the clues they offer to ancient life on Earth.	3-12	Interactive
Frames of Reference Explore how different frames of reference affect your perception of motion in this interactive activity from the American Museum of Natural History.	9-12	Interactive
Free-Falling and "Weightlessness" Discover the difference between free-falling and weightlessness in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.	6-12	Interactive
Frequency In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab, investigate frequency in terms of trampoline jumps, pendulum swings, and electromagnetic waves.	6-12	Interactive
From Ridge to Reef: Adapting to a Changing Climate Explore Pacific high island and atoll ecosystems, learn about the threats to island resources and residents, and discover how communities are preserving their future, in this interactive activity adapted from the Micronesia Conservation Trust.	9-12	Interactive
From Seed to Fruit Interactive Children get a glimpse of what happens underground in the life of a cherry tomato plant in this original animated video from KET.	Pre-K-1	Interactive
Galileo: His Experiments This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site samples Galileo's experiments with falling objects, projectiles, inclined planes, and pendulums.	6-12	Interactive
Gallery of Auroras View this stunning collection of auroral displays from NOVA Online to find out why auroras appear in different colors and shapes and whether they occur on other planets.	3-12	Interactive
Gallery of Visual Illusions Are your eyes playing tricks on you? Discover more about eyesight and the brain as you test your eyes with these visual illusions adapted from the University of Washington's Neuroscience for Kids Web site.	5-12	Interactive
Gamma Ray Burst Detectives (Elementary School) This interactive resource invites students to join NASA to find the source of gamma ray bursts, the single biggest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang. The web site features an animation, information on three possible star sources, and a check yes or no for each star with feedback.	Pre-K-6	Interactive
Gamma Ray Burst Detectives (High School) This WPSU interactive resource invites students to join NASA to find the source of gamma ray bursts, the single biggest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang by exploring three aspects of the death of stars: energy, duration, and variability.	7-12	Interactive
Gas Properties In this interactive simulation adapted from University of Colorado’s Physics Education Technology project, change parameters and discover how the properties of a gas vary in relation to each other.	6-12	Interactive
Gel Electrophoresis This interactive activity from the Dolan DNA Learning Center illustrates the process of gel electrophoresis, in which DNA fragments are separated by size as they migrate at different rates through a gel matrix.	6-12	Interactive
Gene Cloning This interactive activity adapted from the University of Nebraska's Library of Crop Technologies details the steps involved in producing clones of genes that can then be used to transform the characteristics of an organism.	9-12	Interactive
Generating Electrical Voltage This interactive resource adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center illustrates how electrical voltage is generated through a process called magnetic induction and describes some of the factors that affect the magnitude of the voltage produced.	9-12	Interactive
Generation of Alternating Current This interactive resource adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center illustrates the parts of an electrical generator and shows how they function to produce alternating current.	9-12	Interactive
Genetics: Tour of the Basics In this interactive activity from the University of Utah, identify different kinds of genetic traits and how they are passed on from generation to generation. View examples of simple and complex trait inheritance.	6-12	Interactive
Geometric Optics This interactive simulation adapted from the University of Colorado's Physics Education Technology project illustrates how lenses refract light to form images. Manipulate the object, screen, lens, and focal length and observe how the image adjusts.	6-12	Interactive
Geospatial Revolution: Your Next Job The first step in choosing a career is to understand opportunities in an area of interest to you. In this interactive based on Penn State Public Broadcasting’s Geospatial Revolution project, explore several UPS jobs arranged by qualifications.	7-12	Interactive
Getting Airborne and Wing Design What makes an airplane fly? Discover the connection between Newton's third law of motion and flight in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.	6-12	Interactive
Giving Rise to the Jet Stream 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.	6-12	Interactive
Glaciers Featuring images of glacier formations, this interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service explains what glaciers are, where they are found, how they form, and how they move.	6-12	Interactive
Global Trends Quiz In this interactive quiz from NOVA, take the Environmental Challenge and test your knowledge of human impact on the world's natural resources and climate.	3-12	Interactive
Global View of the Seasons This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain features satellite data of Earth's seasonal cycles. Visualizations and comparative still images reveal how successfully plants are photosynthesizing at different times of the year.	6-12	Interactive
Global Water Distribution How much water on Earth is fresh water? How much of that fresh water is found in icecaps? Lakes? Rivers? This interactive resource uses bar graphs to illustrate the relative distribution of fresh and salt water on Earth. Adapted from Oxford University Press.	3-12	Interactive
GPS: Where in the World Are You? This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain illustrates the concepts and technologies that enable the Global Positioning System (GPS) to identify a person's location within a range of a few meters.	9-12	Interactive
Graphing the Periodic Table 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.	9-12	Interactive
Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate Change 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. Adapted from the Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University.	9-12	Interactive
Green Technology: Sustaining the Earth This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain explores areas of research and innovation in green technology.	6-12	Interactive
Guess What's Coming to Dinner? Browse through a table full of genetically modified (GM) foods to see what's available now and what's to come. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" Web site.	9-12	Interactive
Heat Transfer In this interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, learn how heat can be transferred in one of three ways: conduction, convection, and radiation.	5-12	Interactive
History of the Universe This interactive timeline from the NOVA Web site recaps the theoretical origin and formation of the universe, and forecasts its eventual fate.	6-12	Interactive
How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil 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.	3-8	Interactive
How Big Is Our Universe? This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.	3-12	Interactive
How Cancer Grows Follow the growth of a carcinoma from initial mutation to widespread metastasis in this feature from the NOVA: "Cancer Warrior" Web site.	6-12	Interactive
How Caves Form This interactive activity from NOVA Online shows four different ways in which caves are formed: by rainwater, waves, lava, and bacteria.	3-12	Interactive
How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis How exactly does meiosis mix and halve chromosomes? Find out through this feature from NOVA: "18 Ways to Make a Baby," which provides a step-by-step, side-by-side comparison of meiosis and mitosis.	6-12	Interactive
How Do Cells Make Proteins? In this interactive activity from the Exploratorium, explore the steps of protein synthesis in which the cells use genes to make proteins for critical body functions.	7-10	Interactive
How Hurricanes Form This animation from NASA illustrates the phases in the formation of a hurricane.	6-12	Interactive
How Is a Radio Wave Emitted? This illustrated essay from A Science Odyssey Web site explains the science behind radio waves, including the role of electrons and electromagnetic fields.	6-12	Interactive
How to Build A Road Geology and weather introduced a variety of unexpected problems when construction crews were building the Alaska Highway. In this interactive activity from the American Experience Web site, see how Army engineers improvised solutions to blaze a trail through the wilderness.	3-12	Interactive