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Helping Your Child Learn Science
offers a dozen fun learning activities parents can use at home to help children (ages 3-10) learn about bubbles, bugs, surface tension, adhesives, friction (using gelatin), volume... (Department of Education) |
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Exploratorium Online
features dozens of online learning activities and exhibits. Make a mold terrarium, pinhole projector, telescope, or hair hygrometer. Explore the brain, biodiversity, Antarctica, DNA... (National Science Foundation) |
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Building Big
helps kids think about structures they see every day and the impact of technology on society. You can use the television series, website, and activity guide to help teach basic... (National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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National Science Digital Library
provides access to resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research. From video clips teaching cell division to simulations demonstrating plate... (National Science Foundation) |
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Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
introduces students to nanotechnology. Learn how we can "see" atoms, manipulate them, and create nano-architectural wonders. Watch nanoscience demonstrations. Read profiles of... (University of Wisconsin-Madison, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Physical Sciences Resource Center
offers hundreds of annotated lessons, simulations, and resources for teaching topics in the physical sciences, including astronomy, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism... (National Science Foundation) |
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BEN: BiosciEdNet
provides access to more than 4,000 reviewed resources covering 76 biological science topics: agriculture, anatomy, bacteriology, biochemistry, biodiversity, biotechnology, botany... (American Association for the Advancement of Science, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Strange Matter
helps students discover materials science and the secrets of everyday stuff. Find out what happens when you heat silicon, iron, or carbon. Learn how materials science helps fight... (Ontario Science Centre and Materials Research Society, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Career Voyages
explores career options in advanced manufacturing, automotive, construction, energy, financial services, health care, hospitality, information technology, retail, and transportation... (Department of Labor) |
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Physical Sciences
presents more than 200 activities, visualizations, and lessons on electricity and magnetism, energy, heat and thermodynamics, interactions of matter, light and optics, measurement... (Exploratorium, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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The Physics Front
provides selected resources for teachers of high school physics. Hundreds of lessons, labs, and activities can be found in four categories: conceptual physics, algebra-based physics... (National Science Foundation) |
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Technology
reports on how a car company is experimenting with nanotechnology in the quest for environmentally friendly vehicles, how a museum exhibit (created by an artist and a scientist) helps... (Online NewsHour, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Nanotechnology
shows animations of molecular crystals, material strength experiments, different phases of liquid crystals, shockwaves, interatomic interactions in the soft v. hard materials, a... (Concord Consortium, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Nanoscience
explains what nanoscience is, how it is used, and what it means for society. Learn how individual atoms and molecules are being manipulated to create tiny machines the size of human... (National Science Foundation) |
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Case Method of Teaching Science
features case studies for use in teaching anatomy, chemistry, environment, evolution, medicine and health, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, physics and engineering, plant... (State University of New York, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
offers summer professional development opportunities for teachers and online courses. One course, "Introduction to Nanometer Scale," looks at strategies for controlling the structure... (NCLT, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Exploring the Nanoworld Teaching Modules
helps teachers incorporate nanotechnology into high school chemistry and middle school technology classes. High school modules explore x-ray diffraction and scanning probe microscopy... (University of Wisconsin-Madison, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Science Education at Jefferson Lab
offers 16 hands-on activities to answer questions such as: How do scientists to measure the size of an atom? What kind of coat will keep you the warmest—one made from cotton, steel... (Department of Energy) |
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Science of Music
invites children of all ages to explore the "science of music" through movies, questions, and online exhibits. Compose, mix, and play with music in ways you probably haven't before... (National Science Foundation) |
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Reciprocal Net
is a database used by research crystallographers to store information about molecular structures. Images of molecules can be manipulated in 3D. Learn about molecules of minerals and... (National Science Digital Library, supported by National Science Foundation) |
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Teachers' Domain
is a digital multimedia library for teaching and studying life sciences—ecology, evolution, genetics, structure and function, behavior and regulation, general life science, and the... (WGBH, supported by Multiple Agencies) |
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National Energy Technology Laboratory's Cool Science
provides lessons and experiments -- created by teachers, scientists, and engineers -- on a range of energy-related topics: acid water from coal mines, biomass size reduction, clean... (National Energy Technology Laboratory, supported by Department of Energy) |
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