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Website
NASA

Nasa: Glenn Research Center Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA's Glenn Research Center "develops advanced technology for high priority national needs - propulsion, power, and communications technologies for application to aeronautics and space."
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Decisions on Deadline

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection contains two lesson plans and an interactive game that will facilitate discussion and deepen understanding of the complex issues raised in the documentary film, A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Decisions on a Deadline Collection: "A Fragile Trust"

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection contains two lesson plans and an interactive game that will facilitate discussion and deepen understanding of the complex issues raised in the documentary film, A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The...
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Unit Plan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Center of Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore center of mass. Some topics examined in the activities are collisions, center of mass motion, and power. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam questions. Practice problems and...
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Unit Plan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Current, Resistance, and Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners investigate current, resistance, and power. Some topics explored in the activities are Ohm's law, electrical power, and solving circuits. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, online textbook chapters, exam...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Iceland: What Is Electricity?

For Students 4th - 6th
Go on a fishing trip with Martin and his grandfather. They use a lot of electrical equipment. Help him find out which items use electricity.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Bright Idea

For Students 9th - 10th
A Bright Idea shows several different power sources and asks students to write about friction, electricity, combustion or light.
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Activity
University of California

University of California Los Angeles: Force, Work and Power

For Students 3rd - 6th
Describes the definition and relationships between force, work and power. Includes nice drawings to increase conceptual understanding.
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Handout
University of Utah

University of Utah: An Example of Logical Construction: Powers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A page which uses exponents as a step-by-step example of how logic is used to find complex mathematical concepts by building upon simpler concepts.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Logarithms Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated video explores logarithms and explains how they are used in chemistry. Get the basics on these critical mathematical functions -- and discover why smart use of logarithms can determine whether your eyes turn red at the...
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Activity
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Conecto Con Las Mates

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
These are five interactive units for Elementary math. Each unit is structured in four parts: explanation, activities, dictionary and assessment.
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Activity
Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University: Power Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Good use of linking to provide definitions of power along with examples and probing questions. Created by Robert H. Gowdy, physics instructor at VCU.
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Handout
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Energy, Heat Flow, and Life

For Students 5th - 8th
Here you can learn all about heat flow, one of the major driving forces of nature, and how it works. It is the force behind weather, photosynthesis, animal behavior, and much more.
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Handout
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Power How Fast Is Your Energy Being Converted?

For Students 9th - 10th
Confused about the difference between power and energy? Read this explanation to deepen your understanding.
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Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Night Without Light

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation discusses light and the properties of electricity in a storybook format. The theme of the story is that a family lost their power, so the animations discuss power and electricity and how it travels into homes.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: National Grid Fully Charged

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Grid is a high-voltage electric power transmission network, connecting power stations and 340+ substations ensuring supply and demand is in the balance. Nigel Williams speaks to Robert Llewellyn about how the National Grid...
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Handout
Other

Sociology Guide: Questions on Social Stratification

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This quick snapshot of social stratification includes twelve popular questions with corresponding explanations on the topic.
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Activity
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Exponents and Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site reviews the basic properties of exponents, and explains rational exponents and exponential functions, including those with base "e." Provides examples and lots of exercises.
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Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Evaluating Exponents of Negative Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site explains how to evaluate exponents of positive and negative numbers. The site provides games and exercises to practice the skill.
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Website
Other

Taftan: Applied Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
A definition of applied thermodynamics, the science of the relationship between heat, work, and systems that analyze energy processes. Related links.
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Handout
Other

Charles Hubbard: Hydroelectric Power Generation

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the process of hydroelectric power generation very well. Includes drawings of turbines, pictures of actual turbines and a nice schematic of a dam/turbine system.
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Website
Other

Scotland.com

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic facts and travel information about Scotland. Information is available about business, community, travel, culture, news, sports, and shopping.
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Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Las Potencias

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. Interactive resources and activities that could be used in the classroom to learn operation with exponents.
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Handout
Other

Need: Measuring Electricity [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details many of the ways in which to measure electricity. Among the topics covered by this page is resistance and voltage as well as electrical energy and Ohm's Law.