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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Tick Tock, Does Your Mouse Know the Time on the Clock?

For Students 9th - 10th
For this science fair project, you will build a device that records your nocturnal pet's activity by monitoring movement of its exercise wheel to see how it varies during the day and night. You can also experiment with various ways of...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?

For Students 9th - 10th
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But...
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Interactive
Other

Nicky Case: Fireflies

For Students 9th - 10th
Fireflies can put on quite a light show! Watch a whole mangrove forest filled with fireflies lighting up and plunging into darkness over and over again in perfect synchrony. How do thousands of fireflies coordinate with each other? The...