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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Time Travel Kit

For Students 5th - 8th
Would you like to travel forward in time? Use this time travel kit to help you think through different ways to experience time travel. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Time O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.
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Website
BBC

Bbc Science & Nature: Black Holes and Time Travel

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes how black holes may provide clues to the possibility of time travel and parallel universes.
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Website
Other

Uc Riverside: Usenet Relativity Faq

For Students 9th - 10th
A physics usenet listing of frequently asked questions relating to relativity, answered by a number of scientists. Administrivia and Reference, Speed of Light, Special Relativity, General Relativity and Cosmology, Black Holes. Loads of...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Think Like Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site challenges you to think like Einstein and understand how time travel might be possible.
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Website
New York Times

New York Times: Space

For Students 9th - 10th
The New York Times maintains this archive of articles relating to space and space exploration.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas W. Knox

For Students 4th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas W. Knox (1886). It is an illustrated novel relating the adventures of two youths in a journey in European and...
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Wormholes

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC reveals what is known about wormholes, a possible consequence of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity in which space is bent, opening up the possibility of time travel.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Rock Your World!

For Students 3rd
Travel to the Grand Canyon with gophers and learn that if rocks can tell stories, so can YOU! Practice using two different kinds of questions: comparative and descriptive, and learn that during reading time, there is no such thing as a...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Hitting the Mark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Since running a race car is VERY expensive, race engineers know a great deal about how speed, time and distance relate. In this activity, you will investigate the relationship between distance traveled, speed and elapsed time. You will...
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Average Velocity and Speed

For Students 9th - 10th
Gain an understanding of average velocity and speed with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition and examples that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Distance and Speed of Rolling Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
This project is an experiment in classical physics. You'll be following in Galileo's footsteps, and investigating Newton's laws of motion, but you'll be taking advantage of modern video recording technology to make your measurements. The...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Utopian Promise: Sarah Kemble Knight

For Students 9th - 10th
Business woman and author, Sarah Kemble Knight, was a humorist writer who documented her travels and the times of seventeenth century New England. Click on "Sarah Kemble Knight" for related resources.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: New Experiences

For Students Pre-K - K
Childhood is full of new experiences. Whether going to the doctor, traveling on an airplane, or visiting a relative's house for the first time, talking about and planning for new experiences can help children manage their fears and...
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Graphic
Other

The Stoa Consortium: Acropolis: The East Slope

For Students 9th - 10th
The East Slope of the Acropolis is an area that has not (yet) been the focus of a great deal of archaeological investigation. Early travelers and explorers noted, of course, the very large and prominent East Cave that forms such a...
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Activity
Rice University

Rice University: The Hand Squeeze

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...