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Exploratorium: Nagasaki Bombing Remembering Nagasaki

For Students 9th - 10th
A site based on remembering Nagasaki before, during, and after the bombing. Many pictures and accounts can be accessed by clicking on the picture the page.
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Exploratorium: A Guide to Astronomy Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
A portal to resources on the sun, the Earth's neighboring planets, and the weather in space. Find out why Saturn is the "jewel of the Solar System" and explore what happens when Venus and Mercury make their rare transits across the sun.
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Exploratorium: Mold Terrarium

For Students 3rd - 8th
Exploratorium helps you to grow your own mold terrarium. Includes directions and an explanation for what you see growing on your food!
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Exploratorium: The Amazing Adaptable Frog

For Students 9th - 10th
Journey back over a million years ago and see how the common frog has adapted and changed.
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Exploratorium: Skateboard Science

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is on the science and art of skateboard design, including equipment, tricks, glossary of terms, and a live webcast of a skateboard performance.
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Exploratorium: Loma Prieta, Bay Area, Earthquake 1989

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding multimedia site documents the earthquake and related events that took place on October 17, 1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Exploratorium: On the Road With the Faultline Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding multimedia website follows the San Andreas fault system up the California coast from San Diego to just north of San Francisco on the coast.
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Exploratorium: Earthquake Faultline Why the Earth Shakes

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides an explanation of earthquakes in words and pictures, beginning with this lesson on plate tectonics.
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Exploratorium: Frogs

For Students 9th - 10th
The Exploratorium museum in San Francisco provides this exhibit companion site that features information about frogs including their habitats, characteristics, calls, and much more. Instructions are included for making a rain stick.
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Exploratorium: The Science of Hockey

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you love hockey - or are just curious about hockey - you will really like this site. There is a lot of information about the components of hockey. You can learn what equipment is necessary, how slapshots are made, and how to skate...
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Exploratorium: Cern: Antimatter

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully written non-technical introduction to antimatter, as well as a brief discussion of the investigation into the asymmetry between the quantities of matter and antimatter observed in our universe.
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Exploratorium: Cow's Eye Dissection

For Students 9th - 10th
A one stop for all items about cow's eye dissection! Included on this website is a video of a dissection, interactive eye diagram to learn more about how the eye functions, and a step-by-step instructions to complete a cow dissection on...
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Exploratorium:seasons/shadows: Investigate How Shadows Shift Throughout the Year

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Chacoans used shadows to tell daily time and seasons. Build a model that demonstrates the changes in Earth's tilt that affect the length of shadows relative to the sun that determines the seasons. The lesson plan uses everyday...
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Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Arctic Whales

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent information about arctic whales including facts about the bowhead, beluga, and narwhal. Features photos and links to related resources.
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Exploratorium: The Science of Hockey

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource analyzes the science of hockey from a variety of angles. Explains why ice is slippery, what affects the reaction times of goalies and more. Requires RealPlayer.
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Exploratorium: Science of Gardening

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this site to get the "dirt" on dirt. Explore a savage garden or choose from the various aspects of gardening: feed, control or bloom.
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Exploratorium: Science of Music: Accidental Scientist

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning about the science of music is what this site is all about. With clever activities that lead to writing, mixing, and experimenting with music; with videos that explain tuning, stepping (or rhythmic movement), instrument building,...
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Exploratorium: Science Explorer: An Exploratorium at Home Book

For Students 3rd - 8th
Over 30 simple, interactive, experiments can be found on the Exploratorium site. This museum, based out of San Francisco, presents each experiment with a list of materials, a short procedure, and the scientific reasoning behind the...
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Exploratorium: From Jungle to Lab: The Study of Life's Complexity

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibit on what field biologists do. Hear from scientists who have worked in Belize about the reasons that they chose their career paths, the ideas that drive them in their research, the investigative tools they use, and about the...
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Exploratorium: Picturing the Body

For Students 9th - 10th
An online version of articles and activities from the Exploratorium Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 3. This issue looked at how we are able to examine the inside of the human body, what kinds of technology are used, and how each of them is used...
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Exploratorium: How to Build a Spectroscope

For Students 3rd - 5th
Instructions for how to construct a spectroscope from basic materials, which can be used to study colors produced by light from different sources. Adult supervision may be required for the use of the utility knife. Includes an...
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Exploratorium: Space Weather Research Explorer

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore weather phenomena that occur in space. Topics covered include coronal holes, coronal mass ejections, solar flares, solar wind, the magnetosphere, auroras, and how space weather affects us on Earth.
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Exploratorium: Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

For Students 9th - 10th
During the International Polar Year, scientists descended on the Arctic and the Antarctic in droves. While there, they documented their experiences and research work. That rich database of information, covering November 2007 to October...
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Exploratorium: Origins

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource rich is scientific research investigating the origins of matter. Find strategic locations of observatories, the scientists conducting the research, tools used to study the world, and how the ideas of one scientist might impact...