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Physics: Properties of Matter

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Atmospheric Pressure  

Atmospheric Pressure
Did you know that air has weight? This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site explores conditions that affect air density and atmospheric pressure.

6-12 HTML Document
Birth of a Supernova, Type Ia  

Birth of a Supernova, Type Ia
In this interactive activity from NOVA Online, learn about a type of exploding star — a Type Ia supernova — that is so bright that astronomers can measure the distance to the galaxy in which it resides, and even learn which elements make up the star.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Birth of a Supernova, Type II  

Birth of a Supernova, Type II
In this interactive activity from NOVA Online, learn about a type of exploding star — a Type II supernova — that is so large it has a mass 10 times greater than the mass of our Sun.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Body Breakdowns  

Body Breakdowns
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Surviving Denali" Web site details the variety of ways the body can fail while climbing a high-altitude peak.

6-8 HTML Interactive
Buoyancy Basics  

Buoyancy Basics
This illustrated demonstration from the NOVA Web site explains the concepts of buoyancy and density by showing what happens when different kinds of wood blocks are dropped in water.

3-8 HTML Document
Buoyancy Brainteasers: Balloon-in-Car Puzzler  

Buoyancy Brainteasers: Balloon-in-Car Puzzler
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA Web site challenges you to explain the behavior of a helium-filled balloon in a moving car.

3-8 HTML Interactive
Buoyancy Brainteasers: Boat-in-Pool Puzzler  

Buoyancy Brainteasers: Boat-in-Pool Puzzler
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA Web site challenges you to figure out what happens to the water level when a rock is resting in a boat and when it is submerged in water.

3-8 HTML Interactive
Buoyancy Brainteasers: Buoyancy Question  

Buoyancy Brainteasers: Buoyancy Question
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA Web site challenges you to figure out what causes an object to sink.

3-8 HTML Interactive
Carbon-Fiber Car of the Future  

Carbon-Fiber Car of the Future
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, find out how cars made of a material stronger than steel and half the weight can help combat climate change.

6-12 QuickTime Video
The Dating Game: Radioactive Carbon  

The Dating Game: Radioactive Carbon
In this media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site, learn about the atomic structure of radioactive carbon and how it can be used to determine the age of organic remains, such as bones and teeth.

6-12 Shockwave Document
Diamonds: The Science Behind the Sparkle  

Diamonds: The Science Behind the Sparkle
This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site explains why the atomic structure of a diamond slows down light and produces a sparkle more brilliant than from any other colorless substance.

6-12 HTML Document
Discovering Air  

Discovering Air
Our understanding about the air we breathe has changed dramatically through time. This illustrated timeline from the NOVA Web site tracks the changing thought on air and the creation of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

6-12 HTML Document
Einstein: How Smart Was He?  

Einstein: How Smart Was He?
This essay from the NOVA Web site explores the impact Einstein made on physics and most everything we know about the cosmos.

6-12 HTML Document
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity  

Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
What happens when you approach the speed of light? This video segment adapted from NOVA follows one of Albert Einstein's thought experiments and his quest to find the answer.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Einstein's Thoughts on the Ether  

Einstein's Thoughts on the Ether
Do light waves travel through the ether like waves on a lake travel through water? In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a young Albert Einstein grapples with this question while examining the speed of light.

6-12 QuickTime Video
The Elements: Forged in Stars  

The Elements: Forged in Stars
The story of how elements from lithium to uranium are created by stars is illustrated through animation and a hands-on periodic table in this video segment adapted from NOVA.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Evidence for the Big Bang Theory  

Evidence for the Big Bang Theory
This video segment adapted from NOVA tells the story of two scientists who inadvertently discovered microwave radiation that is now believed to be heat left over from the Big Bang.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Finding Cures Is Hard  

Finding Cures Is Hard
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explains the difficulty of curing genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Fireworks! Lifting Charge  

Fireworks! Lifting Charge
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how pyrotechnicians use common compounds to blast fireworks into the sky and give them shape.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Fireworks! Making Color  

Fireworks! Making Color
What gives a fireworks display its brilliant blue, green, and red colors? Learn how pyrotechnicians give fireworks color in this video segment adapted from NOVA.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Floating and Sinking: Hot Air Balloons  

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 Shockwave Interactive
Franklin Chang-Díaz: Rocket Scientist  

Franklin Chang-Díaz: Rocket Scientist
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW profiles Franklin Chang-Díaz, a scientist who is working on plasma-powered rockets and was NASA's first Latin American astronaut.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Free-Falling and "Weightlessness"  

Free-Falling and "Weightlessness"
Discover the difference between free-falling and weightlessness in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 Shockwave Interactive
Frozen Frogs  

Frozen Frogs
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW shows how the common wood frog freezes solid every winter, an adaptation that allows the organism to survive the cold winter.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Galileo: His Experiments  

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 Flash Interactive
Galileo on the Moon  

Galileo on the Moon
Watch Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's falling objects experiment on the Moon in this video segment from NASA.

3-12 QuickTime Video
The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks  

The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks
This video segment adapted from NOVA features the youngest rock formations in the Grand Canyon, lava dams, and how they are subject to the eroding power of water.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Gravity and the Expanding Universe  

Gravity and the Expanding Universe
This video segment, adapted from NOVA, traces the evolving history of theories about gravity and a force that may oppose it, along with our understanding of the impact of both of these forces on our expanding universe.

6-12 QuickTime Video
History of the Universe  

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 Shockwave Interactive
How Big Is the Universe?  

How Big Is the Universe?
In this media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site, astronomer Brent Tully of the University of Hawaiʻi walks you through the latest scientific theories about the size of the universe.

6-12 HTML Document
Ingredients for Life: Carbon  

Ingredients for Life: Carbon
This video segment adapted from NOVA illustrates why carbon is at the center of life on Earth. It also asks whether carbon-based life might exist on other planets.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Ingredients for Life: Water  

Ingredients for Life: Water
This video segment adapted from NOVA goes on a whimsical journey in search of life forms thriving in extreme conditions on Earth and in outer space. Animations show ice on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and signs that water once existed on Mars.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Island of Stability  

Island of Stability
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, follow scientists in their quest to understand how stable elements are made and how to create the elusive element 114.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Journey into DNA  

Journey into DNA
Travel deep into the human body to see exactly where your DNA resides. From the NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Lava Sampling on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi  

Lava Sampling on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientist Mike Garcia draws lava samples at the foot of the active Kilauea volcano to see if it is related to its neighboring volcano, Mauna Loa.

6-12 QuickTime Video
A Nanotube Space Elevator  

A Nanotube Space Elevator
In this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, find out about the discovery of a new building material, the carbon nanotube, whose physical properties could theoretically enable the creation of a 22,000-mile elevator to space.

6-12 QuickTime Video
On Fire  

On Fire
Learn about the chemical reactions that take place when things burn in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 Flash Interactive
The Origin of the Elements  

The Origin of the Elements
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the origin of the elements and how scientists use unique element profiles to identify supernova types.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Pyrotechnics: It's Elemental  

Pyrotechnics: It's Elemental
In this interactive periodic table from the NOVA Web site, find out the role of various elements in making fireworks.

6-12 HTML Interactive
Quarks: Inside the Atom  

Quarks: Inside the Atom
This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how the particle accelerator helped physicists find parts of the atom even smaller than protons and neutrons.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Relativity and the Cosmos  

Relativity and the Cosmos
This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site introduces the basic concepts of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and what we know about cosmology as a result.

6-12 HTML Document
Ringed-Carbon Compounds  

Ringed-Carbon Compounds
In this interactive activity adapted from NOVA, learn about alkaloids and steroids, both examples of compounds with carbon rings. Short videos with interviews, animations, and photographs are featured.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Sequence for Yourself  

Sequence for Yourself
How do researchers read the tiny As, Gs, Ts, and Cs that comprise DNA? This step-by-step explanation shows you. From NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life."

9-12 Flash Interactive
Smart Bridges  

Smart Bridges
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about engineering innovations that could help detect a bridge's structural weaknesses before they become dangerous.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Sound Waves Underwater: True or False  

Sound Waves Underwater: True or False
This interactive quiz from the NOVA Web site features an array of interesting facts about the nature of sound underwater.

3-12 HTML Interactive
Sources of Radiation  

Sources of Radiation
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site explores sources of radiation, both harmful and beneficial, natural and manmade.

6-12 Flash Interactive
The Light Stuff  

The Light Stuff
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site asks which items in your home can slow down the speed of light.

6-12 HTML Interactive
Steam Machine  

Steam Machine
Explore NOVA Online's interactive steam engine and discover how this machine can convert heat to mechanical energy.

3-12 Shockwave Interactive
String Theory: A Sense of Scale  

String Theory: A Sense of Scale
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site puts the infinitesimally small world of string theory into perspective.

6-12 Flash Interactive
String Theory: A Strange New World  

String Theory: A Strange New World
This video segment from NOVA chronicles Einstein's quest to unify the forces of electromagnetism and gravity.

6-12 QuickTime Video
String Theory: A Theory of Everything?  

String Theory: A Theory of Everything?
This video segment from NOVA introduces the basic ideas behind string theory and looks at the quest for unification.

9-12 QuickTime Video
String Theory: A Theory of Everything Essay  

String Theory: A Theory of Everything Essay
In this essay from the NOVA Web site, string theorist Brian Greene introduces the basic ideas behind string theory and how it might help us better understand the universe.

9-12 HTML Document
String Theory: Elementary Particles  

String Theory: Elementary Particles
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site looks at the fundamental forces and particles that make up all matter.

6-12 Flash Interactive
String Theory: Gravity - The Odd Man Out  

String Theory: Gravity - The Odd Man Out
This video segment from NOVA describes the discovery in the 1930s of two forces in addition to electromagnetism: the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.

9-12 QuickTime Video
String Theory: Science or Philosophy?  

String Theory: Science or Philosophy?
This video segment from NOVA discusses the challenge of proving the scientific validity of string theory, in question because strings may be too small to ever be seen or detected, and therefore tested.

9-12 QuickTime Video
String Theory: Strings to the Rescue  

String Theory: Strings to the Rescue
This video segment from NOVA discusses the challenge of unifying the force of gravity and the forces described by quantum mechanics into a single theory of unification.

9-12 QuickTime Video
String Theory: The Quantum Café  

String Theory: The Quantum Café
This video segment from NOVA relates the rise of subatomic physics in the 1920s and the development of the radical theory of quantum mechanics.

9-12 QuickTime Video
The Structure of Metal  

The Structure of Metal
In this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site, animations explain different aspects of the properties of metal.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Surviving Winter  

Surviving Winter
In this media-rich activity designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the various physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter.

6-12 Student Activity
Tour the Electromagnetic Spectrum  

Tour the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Take NOVA's interactive tour of the electromagnetic spectrum and find out why your eyes are like antennae for a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation.

6-12 HTML Interactive
Your Carbon Diet  

Your Carbon Diet
Find out how much energy you use and some ways to conserve in this interactive activity from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site.

3-12 Shockwave Interactive
Your Carbon Diet  

Your Carbon Diet
In this interactive activity from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site, you can click on various items in a typical New England house to find out how much energy each uses and some ways to reduce energy consumption in your home.

6-12 Shockwave Interactive