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Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea?In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Energy Transfer in a Roller CoasterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes from one form to another move cars through a roller coaster ride. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
The Facts About ConcussionsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Florida's Everglades: The River of GrassIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Forces of Gravity and Air ResistanceIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the forces of gravity and air resistance affect the motion of falling objects. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Newton's Third Law: Action–ReactionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—applies both on Earth and in outer space. |
7-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Nutrition: What Your Body NeedsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about the health benefits and risks associated with the food choices they make. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Powering Your Body with ExerciseIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the positive effects that exercise has on the body and some activities they can do to improve their health. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Reproduction: One Goal, Two MethodsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the two basic forms of reproduction for the living things that practice them. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Snake Jaws: Connecting Structure and FunctionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how animals' physical characteristics, such as jaw structure, are directly related to the function they perform when the animal interacts with its environment. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Solving a Public Health ProblemIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to understand the role that public health workers play in protecting the communities they serve. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Surviving WinterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of WaterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Using the 3Rs to Help the EnvironmentIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |