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Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires Ii: Lever Lift
Examine the classes of levers and discover how levers work by raising a brick with shish kebab skewers.
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Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires I Obelisk
Investigate how levers can be used to lift objects and discover how the position of the fulcrum affects the force and the distance of the load lifted.
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Pbs Teachers: Secrets of Lost Empires I: Stonehenge
Investigate center of gravity by changing the weight distribution of a suspended object.
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Pbs Teachers: Lost Tribes of Israel, Dna
Investigate how fingerprinting works, determine what sorts of evidence and questions are important in deciding a court case and understand the issues involved with using DNA evidence in a courtroom trial.
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Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Smell
Understand how the sense of smell has strong connection to the limbic region of the brain and experience how the brain associates smells with memories and emotions.
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Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Hearing
Understand how humans can focus on familiar voices and language over other sounds, by experimenting with what classmates hear when conversations are taking place simultaneously.
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Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Vision
Understand how our brain identifies an object, view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does.
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Pbs Teachers: Dying to Breathe
Explore issues surrounding the established criteria for selecting organ recipients.
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Pbs: Shark Bytes
Good visual site from PBS that presents the geologic history of sharks and acts a good introduction.
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Pbs: Nova: Doomsday Asteriod: Educator's Guide to Kitchen Comets
Instructions for making a simulated comet nucleus from simple materials.
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Pbs Nova: Reading Maya Hieroglyphs
Part of a larger site from PBS on Mayan culture, this page refers specifically to the Mayan form of writing through hieroglyphs.
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Pbs: Nova: Top Gun Over Moscow
An online exhibit investigating the sensations experienced by a cockpit pilot in a Russian aircraft. Focuses on G-forces and apparent weightlessness.
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Pbs Nova: Restoring of a Buddhist Wall Painting
It's amazing how restoration of artwork can really bring it back to life! See how nine Buddhist paintings were drastically changed by restoration viewing their before and after pictures.
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Nova: Signs of Life
Can you find planets that will support life? This activity will give you data for different planets and challenge you to find one that supports life.
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Pbs: Nova Online: Be a Stargazer
This resource briefly describes how telescopes work and provides helpful tips for stargazing.
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Star Map
This star map has five different constellations along with four newly discovered solar systems. If you are located in the northern hemisphere you can use this resource to locate stars.
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Nova: Into Living Things
Paleoclimatologists use information from tree rings, corals and ice cores to learn more about El Nino. See if you can analyze samples of each of these types of evidence to look for past El Nino events.
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Nova: Alien Evidence
The Nazca desert of Peru has some very unusual designs. There are two explanations that you can investigate, which explain the origin of these lines.
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Nova: A Five Day View of the Jet Stream
This animated 5 day forecast for the jet stream shows wind direction and wind speed. The forecast was generated on January 1, 2001 by the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center.
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Nova: Lunar Puzzlers
See if you can answer 4 challenging questions that will require you to take a lunar perspective. These questions deal with the way things look from the moon.
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Nova: Plant Magic
This site is a brief introduction to ethnobotany, the study of medicinal plants. Get information on the medicinal uses of garlic, mint and pine.
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Pbs: Nova: Avalanche! Elements of a Slide
Avalanches are a dangerous phenomenon that cause more deaths in the United States each year than earthquakes. Explore the anatomy of avalanches and their causes.
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Nova: Snow Sense
This reading describes numerous characteristics of snowpack that has a potential to cause an avalanche. It also has suggestions for rescue.