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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Diffusion

For Students 9th - 10th
An activity to understand how diffusion is a result of random motion and collisions of particles. With the virtual labs, explore how a drop of food coloring into a glass spreads and how perfume diffuses at different temperatures and...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do Animals Form Swarms?

For Students 9th - 10th
Maria R. D'Orsogna shares why members of a swarm follow simple rules: travel in the same direction as those around you, stay close and avoid collisions.
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PBS

Pbs: Anatomy of a Tsunami

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists used maps and seismic data to produce a computer simulation that accurately shows the creation of the wave that shook the world. In this interactive, examine some of the models and images that reveal details of the tsunami...
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Conduction in Solids Full (Fixed)

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation shows conduction of thermal energy within and between solids, based on the kinetic energy of particles, and collisions between neighboring particles.
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Conduction in Solids Reduced

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation shows conduction of thermal energy within and between solids, based on the kinetic energy of particles, and collisions between neighboring particles.
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Gas Particle Motion and Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation explores the relationship between the temperature of a gas, the motion of the particles in the gas and the changes in the kinetic energies of particles during collisions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Conservation of Angular Momentum Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review how angular momentum is conserved if there is no external torque applied to a system. Specific scenarios are highlighted: system changing it rotational inertia, orbiting bodies, and rotational collisions.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Momentum Conserved

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology gives a Lab activity in which students use a variety of toys to discover Newton's second law and momentum conservation. Newton's cradle, skate boards, and a toy motorcycle are incoporated...
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Reaction Rates

For Students 3rd - 8th
This Chem4Kids.com site explores the rate of reactions. Content focuses on forces that change the speed of reactions, and measuring rates.
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Thermochemistry

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a general overview of thermochemistry, the division of chemistry that deals with temperature in chemical reactions. Content explores what heat and cold really are, the heat and energy around you, and a bit about Lord...
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NASA

Nasa: Top 20 Comet Shoemaker Levy Images

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides the most popular images at the JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy home page during the month of July 1994, when the comet was impacting Jupiter.
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Website
Oakland Museum of California

California's Untold Stories: Natives and Immigrants

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a tour through the history of natives and immigrants to the California Gold Rush area, including African American, California Indian, Chinese, and Latino.
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Other

Virtual Exploration Society: Leonid A. Kulik

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about Leonid Kulik, Soviet meteorite expert, who made several expeditions in the 1920's to the site of mass destruction in Siberia possibly caused by a meteorite.
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Other

Cern: The Delphi Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of the DELPHI experiment at CERN. It provides links to various parts of the experiment and explains the operation of the detector. The general operation is explained at a basic level, but the physics is much more...
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eBook
Other

Gold, Greed, & Genocide: The Story of California's 1849 Gold Rush

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the table of contents to explore this site which recounts the plight of the Native Americans who lived in California before the Gold Rush and the impact of the gold rush on their lives.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bouncing Balls (For High School)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine how different balls react when colliding with different surfaces. Also, they will have plenty of opportunity to learn how to calculate momentum and understand the principle of conservation of momentum.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: The Engine That Drives the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Material to begin an exploration of volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate tectonics. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on volcano types, plate boundaries, and "hot spots," and ideas for...
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Bagheera

Bagheera: Florida (West Indian) Manatee

For Students 9th - 10th
This site takes a long look at the manatee, including this animal's unique characteristics, habit and range. Special emphasis is placed on how and why the Florida manatee is an endangered species, and what kind of conservation efforts...
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NBC

Timetable Set for Dealing With Asteroid Threat

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA has made predictions that by 2036 a quarter-mile-wide asteroid named Apophis could possibly collide with Earth. This site outlines what preventative measures scientists are taking to avoid this impact.
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Oregon State University

Osu: Volcano World: Spreading Plate Boundaries

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has pictures and descriptions of different areas on Earth where the plates are spreading. Also includes links to more information on slow, medium, and fast moving plates.
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Handout
University of Oregon

The Electronic Universe Project: Plate Boundaries/plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site to learn more about the different types of plate boundaries. Includes color pictures and easy-to-understand examples of how and why plates move the way they do.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This 5E model lesson helps students understand the concept of conservation of momentum.
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Activity
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Build a Rain Gauge

For Students 5th - 9th
In this experiment, students build and calibrate a rain gauge and use it to measure and record how much rain falls in their local area each time it rains.
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Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...

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