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Antarctic Ice Movement: Part I
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains why ice sheets move. To find out how fast they move, scientists carve a tunnel through a glacier.

6-12 QuickTime Video

Biome in a Baggie
This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions.

K-8 QuickTime Video

Caves and Karst
This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service presents the key concepts of cave and karst systems, including how and where they form, different types, and various cave environments.

3-12 HTML Interactive

Convective Cloud Systems
This video segment adapted from the Atmospheric Radiation Program explains the differences in the formation of tropical convective cloud systems over islands and over the ocean.

3-8
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Cycling Water Through the Environment
Students explore the water cycle and investigate the different forms that water can take in the environment.

3-5 Lesson Plan

Earth’s Albedo and Global Warming
In this interactive activity adapted from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, learn about Earth's albedo (the ratio of reflected vs. incident solar radiation), how pollution alters albedo, and how ice-albedo feedback may accelerate global warming.

6-12
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HTML Interactive

Earth Water Filter
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members try to make the most effective water filter. They experiment with filtering dirty, salty water through different combinations of sand, gravel, and a cotton bandana.

K-8 QuickTime Video

An Everglades Visit
In this adapted video segment, ZOOM guest Tommy takes us on a tour of the Florida Everglades. He describes what makes a wetland biome unique, including the soil, precipitation, and biodiversity.

K-8
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Flood: Farming and Erosion
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists investigate how farming along the Mississippi River impacts floods and what can be done about it.

3-12
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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
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HTML 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 Flash Interactive

The Great Flood of 1993
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a meteorologist explains how an unusual weather pattern led to one of the most devastating floods of this century.

6-12 QuickTime Video

Human Impact on Water Quality
Students explore human impact on water resources, investigate the quality of their community's water supply, and consider ways to clean up and avoid further pollution.

6-8 Lesson Plan

The Hydrologic Cycle
View the five processes of the hydrologic cycle in this interactive resource adapted from NASA in which animations illustrate condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and evapotranspiration.

3-8
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Flash Interactive

Ice Shelf and Ice Sheet Simulation
In this interactive activity adapted from Texas A&M University, a block of melting ice simulates ice shelves and ice sheets and their differing effects on global sea level.

6-12
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Flash Interactive

Life's Little Essential: Liquid Water
Why is water necessary for life? Why is it the best and possibly only liquid to do the job? This illustrated essay from NOVA Online answers these questions, explaining why planetary scientists are on the lookout for water elsewhere in the solar system.

6-12 HTML Document

Mountain of Ice: If the Ice Melts
This interactive resource adapted from NOVA Online features a collection of images that show what would happen to selected coastlines around the world if the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted.

6-12
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Flash Interactive

Natural Wonders
Many of the interesting landmarks around the world are formed over time by natural processes familiar to us in our everyday lives. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features images of a variety of beautiful natural wonders.

K-5
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Observe Precipitation
In this video segment produced for Teachers' Domain, observe different types of precipitation — rain, hail, and snow.

K-5
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QuickTime Video

Pollution Along the Rhine River
This video segment adapted from Race to Save the Planet discusses the effects of water pollution along the Rhine River and its impact on local wildlife.

6-12
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Solar Still Part I: Salt Water
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members assemble a solar still and make fresh water from saltwater, demonstrating two steps of the water cycle, evaporation and condensation.

3-12 QuickTime Video

Solar Still Part II: Juice
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members test their solar still to see if they can make fresh water from orange juice.

3-12 QuickTime Video

Virtual Cave
This interactive resource adapted from The Virtual Cave by Dave Bunnell, presents images of various features found in solution caves and includes detailed information on how these features are formed and where they occur.

3-12
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Flash Interactive

Water Conservation
Students study the availability of fresh water on Earth and the methods that can be used to purify and conserve it. They also assess how much water they and their families typically use, and think about ways to reduce water usage.

6-8 Lesson Plan

Water Cycle Animation
This animation from NASA visualizes the steps of the water cycle, including precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, and condensation.

K-8
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Water Phases
Water can exist in three different phases. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features examples of water in liquid, solid, and gas states.

K-5
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Water Treatment Plant
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a water treatment plant and learn how water from a local reservoir is turned into drinking water.

K-8 QuickTime Video

What's the Weather?
Students learn about meteorology and weather changes, and discuss how weather affects daily life.

K-2 Lesson Plan