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S.T.E.M., EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
S.T.E.M., EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
Matter: DENSITY, HOT & COLD MATTER, PHYSICAL STATES
Matter: DENSITY, HOT & COLD MATTER, PHYSICAL STATES
Density
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Density activities for home, Steve Spangler website
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Saltwater density column (similar to how a brine lake forms underwater)
🌟Density and brine lakes that form underwater
🌟Hook video: Why you can lie on a bed of nails
Planet and Moon Density infographic
🌟Ooblek dancing on audio speakers, density
🌟Slo Mo Guys show Ooblek dancing on speakers
Bill Nye, Non-Newtonian fluids and an oil spill (crude oil is compared to oobleck)
Hot vs. Cold
🌟Hot and cold water demonstration
🌟Hot and cold water resist mixing🕹️
🌟Video, Hot air rises (spiral over candle)
🌟Video, Hot air rises (fills up balloon)-remove sound and just explain the water is heated by the stove.
🌟Video, Hot air rises (hot air balloon on a stove burner)
Video, Food coloring spreads out faster in hot vs. cold water
PhET 🕹️ simulation, Gas Properties
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Hot and cold water activity for home video
Physical States: Solid, Liquid, Gas
🌟PhET 🕹️ States of Matter simulation
🌟Video, Properties of Solids, Liquids, and Gasses
🕹️Simulation Gas molecules fill a fixed space
🕹️Simulation Liquid molecules fill a box
🕹️Simulation Solid molecules in a box
JavaLab 🕹️ simulation, States of Matter change depend on temperature
All the States of Matter You Never Knew Existed
4 States of Matter as related to temperature
🕹️Simulation, dye spreading out in water molecules that are of different temperature
Video, Popcorn, NPR Skun Bear (Supplemental only)
Matter: BOILING, FREEZING & MELTING POINTS, & THERMAL CONDUCTION
Matter: BOILING, FREEZING & MELTING POINTS, & THERMAL CONDUCTION
Boiling, Freezing, Melting Points
🌟List of Boiling and Freezing Points for Solvents
Boiling, Freezing, and Melting Points for Different Elements
Boiling points of various gasses
🌟Melting/Freezing points of various metals
🌟Video: "Which freezes faster: hot water or cold water?"
PhET 🕹️Simulation, Energy Forms and Changes
Thermal Conduction and Insulation
🌟JavaLab 🕹️ Visual simulation of heat being transferred
Video: Thermal energy conduction awesomeness with a balloon and Steve Spangler
Matter: MAGNETIC FIELD
Matter: MAGNETIC FIELD
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video, Make a homemade compass
🌟Image, Earth's Magnetic Field and solar winds
🌟Image, Earth's magnetic field
🌟PhET 🕹️ Simulation, Magnet and Compass
PhET 🕹️ simulation, Static Electricity (negative and positive charges)
SUPPLEMENTAL-Only, Deep-dive Video: Magnets: How Do They Work? (MinutePhysics)
Matter: USING PHYSICAL PROPERTIES TO SEPARATE MIXTURES
Matter: USING PHYSICAL PROPERTIES TO SEPARATE MIXTURES
🌟Animation, Salt (a solute) being dissolved by a solvent (water)
🌟Video, Commercial for Tootsie Pops "How Many Licks Does It Take..."
🌟Video, How are magnets used to separate recycling?
Video, How to Separate the Inseparable, Ted ED
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Homemade distillation device to clean dirty water (it's still NOT clean enough to drink, though); "How to Use the Desert Tent Method to Clean Water."
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Homemade Solar Water Distiller
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Chromatography at Home (removing the colors from an ink solution)
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Additional Chromotography video with better results
Separating mixtures and solutions online "quiz" and lesson
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: How to separate iron from Total cereal
Energy: ENERGY FORMS
Energy: ENERGY FORMS
Energy: Sound
Energy: Sound
🌟Video, Air Molecules move across the room, no air is in Space
🌟Video, Skunkbear NPR, What does sound look like?
🌟Video, "How your ears work" by kidshealth.org
🌟Video, What vibrations look like (Cymatics) (not past 3:20)
Video, Song about the speed of sound
🌟Video, Cool sound wave and water "trick"
🌟PhET 🕹️ simulation about sound waves *see particles, too!
🌟PhET 🕹️simulation about sound wave interference and reflection
🌟🕹️Java simulation, how radio work
🌟Video, Sperm Whales use sonar to locate food "Sperm Whale versus Giant Squid"
SUPPLEMENTAL Video, Audio Illusions (Cool!)
Energy: ELECTRICITY
Energy: ELECTRICITY
Electrons and Atoms
Video, How Small Is An Atom? (TEDed)
🌟Scale Model to view how much smaller atoms are than cells
Static Electricity
🌟Animation, Charge flow during a lightning storm
🌟Video, "What is lightning," and static electricity
Lightning within friction-filled volcanic explosions
Video: Top 10 Lightning Strikes (for this photographer)
Supplemental, Video: TED talk about the complexities of static electricity
Supplemental, Video, History of electric study and static electricity (TED-Ed)
Video, Exploring Static Electricity (Static electricity tricks with explanations)
🌟PhET 🕹️simulation, Static Electricity (negative and positive charges)-balloon & sweater
🌟PhET 🕹️ Simulation about static electricity, carpets, and metal door knobs. "John Travoltage."
Batteries, Wires, and Circuits
🌟PhET 🕹️simulation, the inside of a battery
Video: TED-Ed "How do batteries work?"
🌟PhET 🕹️simulation electric current flows through circuit, stop with light switches.
PhET 🕹️simulation for how electricity flows and stops , build a series and parallel circuit
PhET 🕹️ simulation for electromagnets and the magnetic field.
PhET 🕹️ simulation electromagnetic-changing the number of coils does what?
🌟Simulation: Parallel circuit and series in a house
🌟Simulation: More bulbs = more energy
🌟Simulation/Game-like: Universe and More Crack the Circuit
Diagram of a simple iron nail electromagnet
Diagram of the magnetic field of an iron nail electromagnet
Infographic for how the electromagnets in speakers work
2 Ways to Make Electromagnets stronger (Scroll Down!)
Video, Electromagnetic crane on a train car cleaning up tracks
Supplemental video: Exploding soda cans with electromagnetic currents
2-battery flashlight circuit image
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video: Making a lemon battery
Question to answer: Which energy form was converted to which energy form?
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video: How to make a coin battery. Question to answer: Which energy form was converted to which energy form?
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: How to make a vinegar battery? Question to answer: Which energy form was converted to which energy form?
Energy: LIGHT
Energy: LIGHT
Diagram of only the colors of the apple skin, leaf, and stem reflect off an apple
Google images of "reflection"
Diagram of the visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum
Video about the electromagnetic spectrum: "Light: Crash Course Astronomy
PhET 🕹️ simulation for light refraction
Animation, light traveling into water
Images of cow eye dissection and the lenses inside
Images of Glass Bricks that refract light
Spearfishing image from National Geographic
Diagrams of spearfishing and refraction
Video of how rainbows form (stop at 1:14)
Image of a rainbow over Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland
Images of moon halos (lunar rainbows around the moon)
Using telescopes to see into the universe's past: "Hubble Probes the Early Universe"
Images of the Hubble space telescope inside of space shuttle
Forces & Motion
Forces & Motion
Forces & Motion: LAWS OF MOTION
Forces & Motion: LAWS OF MOTION
Video, Life of Sir Isaac Newton (stop at 3:30)
Video, Inertia, Beaker puppet, & traveling chair. Start at 40 sec.
Video, Laws of Motion and the game of hockey
Video, Space Station boost proves all three laws of motion
Video, Astronaut uses hair to show Newton's laws of motion
Image, Farting Rainbows (and the Laws of Motion behind it) (use with White Board)
Image, Friction and the Laws of Motion behind it (use with White Board)
JavaLab 🕹️ simulation, opposite and equal reaction-trampolines
JavaLab 🕹️ simulation, force equals mass x acceleration- shopping cart racing
PhET 🕹️ simulations Masses and Springs- critical thinking questions
PhET 🕹️ simulations Forces and Motion: Basics - manipulate friction, mass, Newton's 1st Law)
PhET 🕹️simulation for Friction and Thermal Energy (thermodynamics)
PhET 🕹️ simulation for Laws of Motion, Friction, & Acceleration (Skate Park)-manipulate friction, gravity, & mass; measure speed & height)
PhET 🕹️simulation to show 3rd Law of Motion and Pendulums in action (and the Law of Conservation)
PhET 🕹️ simulation for balanced and unbalanced forces (like bumper cars with different size occupants)
Forces & Motion: SIMPLE MACHINES
Forces & Motion: SIMPLE MACHINES
Pulleys
🌟Video: Pulleys, Simple Machines (~6:00)
🌟JavaLab 🕹️ simulation pulleys (force not measured)
🌟Pulley Diagram of a fixed pulley
Pulley diagram of multiple pulleys
🌟Infographic: Elevators and pulleys
The physics of pulleys (Angular Vector Forces), article
🌟🕹️simulation pulleys (force measured)
Inclined Planes
Video, What is an inclined plane? (Macomi Kids)
Fulcrums and Levers
🌟Video, TedEd: The Mighty Mathematics of the Lever
PhET 🕹️simulation for fulcrums and levers -move objects closer and farther from the fulcrom, even includes a game!
Wheel and Axle
Weather & Climate, Water Cycle
Weather & Climate, Water Cycle
Wind
NOTE: Do not attempt any of the * starred activities. Adults only!!!!!
*Video, Hot Air rises with flaming tea bag
*HOME EXTRA CREDIT (with adult): Video, Hot Air rises and spins a spiral
*Video, Hot air rises, trashbag hot air balloon
*HOME EXTRA CREDIT (with adult): Video, Hot air rises and fills up a balloon
~a 5th grader's video from the above extra credit opportunity!!
Video, Air Pressure & the Atmosphere, StudyJams
Interactive: Coastal Winds and Clouds
Air Pressure & Atmospheric Layers
Image, Atmospheric layers from the ISS (2010)
Video, Air Pressure can lift a stool by pressing so hard by itself to create a suction seal
Real-Time Animation, Global Winds from different altitudes in Earth's atmosphere
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video, air pressure trick in a bottle
Video, Air Pressure tricks with Bill Nye
Video, Why is it hotter the higher you go, Bill Nye
Infographic, Atmospheres of other planets ("The Atmospheres of the Solar System")
Video, Balloon and Peeps in vacuum chamber
Video, Bag of chips at different altitudes
Video, Why blood would "boil" in space, start @ 1:26
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video, Build your own air pressure barometer
Diagram & Article, "Why do we feel pain in our ears on airplanes?"
Atmospheres of the objects of our solar system
Weather Fronts
Animation, Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts
🕹️Animation/Simulation, Cold and Warm fronts
Animation, Cold and Warm Fronts, Pearson
Animation, "Stationary Fronts Prolong Bad Weather"
Current & Past Weather Data and Maps
Current US Weather Map, Weather Channel
Current ANIMATED weather map, Intellicast
Variety of Current Weather Maps, Intellicast
Current and historic weather and climate data, Weather Underground
Weather Online Activities
More Climate and Weather Interactives and Games (CIMSS)
Database of weather/atmosphere/climate games & interactives (UCAR)
Water Cycle
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video, Using transpiration to survive in an arid place
Weather Instruments
Video, “Arklay Richards C5 Anemometer in 230 mph wind”
Video, release of a weather balloon
Ocean's Affect Weather and Climate
Map, cartoon coastal map of Oregon
Map, cartoon coastal map of California
Relief & Precipitation map of California so you can see where the mountains and rainfall correlate
Diagram to explain the uneven heating the Earth
Model, (NASA) Daily temperature rise and fall as we rotate toward the sun
Video & Diagram, (NASA) Ocean temperature map
Article, toys float across the world ocean surface currents: "What can 28,000 rubber duckies lost at sea teach us about our oceans?"
Animated, Surface Current Map that reflects the uneven heating the Earth
Video, Surface current model "Perpetual Ocean"
Wind model at different altitudes above Earth
Video, & Diagram, Uneven heating of Earth's oceans affects ocean water density
Video & Diagram, Uneven heating of Earth's oceans affects salinity levels of oceans
Video, Making Waves: How the ocean moves (TED Ed)
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video, Salinity affects ocean current flow and depth
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video, Ocean Currents, Bill Nye the Science Guy
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Video, Layers of Ocean water activity
Astronomy: SUN, EARTH, & MOON
Astronomy: SUN, EARTH, & MOON
AWESOME Astronomy Simulations for all Units:
🕹️Simulation Collection: Astronomy Edu. at the U. of Nebraska
Scale Models of the Universe
Size comparison of planets and different stars
Scale model to show the comparable size of EVERYTHING in the Universe
Interactive Scale Model of the Universe (Smithsonian)
🕹️Interactive: Looking back in time "Map of the Universe"
GAME: Can you find the sun?-You Are Out There, an interactive
Orbit, Revolve, Rotate
Visualization: Rotating Moon (NASA)
Visualization: Sun Rotating (NASA)
Orbit Paths: the world's satellites
DELETE: Orbit Simulator for our Solar System
REPLACE WITH: Interactive Simulator: Solar System Scope- everything orbiting and rotating
Visualization: Why the moon travels in both 27.3 and 29.5 days
Summary Video: Earth and Moon Rotating & Revolving
DELETE: Summary Visualization: Earth revolving and rotating through the months (seasons)
Summary video: Earth's Rotation and Revolution (Crash Course)
SUPPLEMENTAL Video: Relative Gravity Explained, "Gravity Visualized"
CAN'T FIND 4 Seasons Game
Mass and Orbits
Problem Solving: What would happen if?
a planet/satellite had more mass?
a planet/satellite had less mass?
Physical Features of the Moon & Sun
🕹️Simulation/Interactive, Planet, Sun, Moon composition
DELETE Video, Bill Nye and the Sun (:30-3:00; 9:00-9:45;14:50-15:45;17:08-19:00 min)
REPLACE WITH Video, "Sun 101," National Geographic
Video & Song: "I'm So Hot" (about the Sun) by Storybots
Panoramas of the Moon's surface
Interactive diagram, composition of the Moon
Research the Moon using the following resources:
Day & Night and Shadow Movement: Earth Rotates
Interactive, Model on NOVO with a marker to identify tilt, rotation, and direction of the sun
DELETE: Simulation of what causes day and night 1
DELETE: Simulation of what causes day and night 2
Video, Find North Without a Compass
Video, How to Find True North While Outside
Video clip, Sundial
ADD: Simulation 🕹️, Day and Night cause shadows to move
4 Seasons: Earth Orbits/Revolves & Tilts
Video, Bill Nye Explains the Seasons
🕹️Simulation/Visualization: Earth revolving and rotating through the months (seasons)
🕹️Interactive Simulation of the seasons, orbits, and rotations (Earth, Sun, & Moon)
SUPPLEMENTAL Video, Why Do We Have Different Seasons? (California Sciences)
DELETE: Infographic, explanation of the 4 seasons
Daylight Simulator- what time is it?
Review: Video, StudyJams Day & Night, and the 4 Seasons
Planet Order and more
What is a planet? Why isn't Pluto a planet?
Video & Song: "Planet Song," by the Raging Idiots
Cringe planet order video & DETAILS, "The Solar System Song"-What If Channel
Song with details: The Planets of Our Solar System
SUPPLEMENTAL Video & Song: "Planet Song/Dwarf Planets" by Kids Learning Tube
Tilt of all of each planet, p.4
Activity: Label the Planet-Geoguesser-Seterra-
Activity: Drag the Planet to the Correct Spot
Moon Phases/Lunar Cycle
Current moon phase for any date
Video, Bill Nye explains the moon phases
DELETE: Video & Song: "Mr. Lee-Phases of the Moon" rap
DELETE: Video & Song: Flocabulary Moon Phases
🕹️Simulation, Lunar Phases-U.of Lincoln-Nebraska
DELETE: Simulation, Lunar Phases-FOSS
DELETE: Simulation, Lunar Phases-McGraw Hill
🕹️Simulation, the shape of the Moon's Orbit
🕹️Simulation, Lunar Phases over a month from your point of view (includes day time)
🕹️Simulation, Lunar Phases with a Basketball
Eclipses
Video, NASA Intro to Lunar Eclipses
DELETE: Visualization, Lunar Eclipse
Video, Why do lunar eclipses happen and NOT full moons
Tide Patterns and the Moon
Images, High Tide versus Low Tide
Video, TIme-lapse of low tide to high tide over 6 hours
Video, The Tides, MinutePhysics
🕹️Simulation, Tides as they relate to the gravity of the moon and sun
DELETE: Simulation, Tides (Bulge)
🕹️Simulation of Tides 2 (Bulge in space & beach view)
DELETE: Visualization, Tides on a Beach over hours
Time-Lapse Video, Bay of Fundy, highest tides on the planet
Health
Health
Nutrition
Video, Read the Nutrition Label (ENG)
Infographic, Read the Nutrition Label (ENG) (SPN)
Fast guide to understanding nutrition labels (ENG) SPN
How to read the %s and other hints for reading nutrition labels (ENG) (SPN)
Go, Slow, Whoa Nutritional Guide-Reading Paste-ins p.40 (ENG) & 50 (SPN), p.133 (ENG) & 134 (SPN)
Go Slow Whoa foods labeling "PPT" PDF
Another Go, Slow, Whoa handout (ENG & SPN)
Buying the best foods & rating the snacks in your hands (ENG) (SPN)
Nutrition Guide Fun Fact Quiz, FDA (ENG/SPN)
Video, Tiny Desk Kitchen: The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger, NPR
2nd Semester
2nd Semester
Landforms and General Geology
Landforms and General Geology
Weathering
ICE
🌟Weathering Images and Descriptions, National Geographic
🌟Hook: Why ice expands 2, including density (less dense --> makes ice float!!)
🌟Time-lapse video, Glass of Water expands
MOVING WATER
🌟Video, Underwater Turbulence of sediments and fish, SERC
🌟Video, The art of tumbling and polishing (rock tumbler)
RAIN
🌟Video, Visualization, Rock dissolving
Erosion
Silent Video, Erosion to form a deeper waterfall and swimming hole
DELETE: Sediment Transport Movies
MOVING WATER
Video, stream sediment erosion animation
Video, Flashflood in Austin
Video, Shoal Creek Flooding and Mudslides-stop at 2:54
Video, How a straight stream naturally starts to "meander"
Video, Stream table model of how a meandering stream changes 1
Aerial photo of a meandering river about to form an oxbow lake
Video, Stream table model of a meandering stream changing 2
Video, Why Rivers Meander, MinuteEarth
Video, Little River Stream Table Timelapse (with fun music)
Video, Giant Stream table erosion model, shows how rock layers can be revealed
WIND
Visualization, Sand Erosion/sand dune migration
Video clip of blowing sand on dunes
Video, Why is All Sand the Same?, Minute Earth
OTHER EROSION FORMS: Glacial, Wave, and Gravity
🕹️PhET simulation, Glacier Erosion
Time-lapse video, Glacier Erosion
Video of Visualization, Erosion of a Sea Cliff by waves
Time-lapse video, Soft-rock cliff eroded by waves
Claymation video, sea cliff erosion
Rock Slide in Yosemite by Gravity
Mudslide in Brazil by gravity and added water weight
Mountain weathering & erosion by rain, wind, and waves
Deposition
Deposition in a stream (with a dam)
Video animation, weathering then deposition
Video, Delta formation from erosion model
Minerals
Google Images, Mexican caves with giant crystals
Image, Rock Tumbler rocks before and after
Solution Caves & Sink Holes
CAVES
Image, Karst Limestone rock sample
Cave Formation Visualization/Video (by dissolving)
Video, Formation of Carlsbad Cavern
Soundscape, caves and water dripping from cave ceiling
360 Visual Interactive of Carlsbad Cavern
Video, Deposition of minerals to form stalactites and stalagmites
Google Images, Animals Adapted to Cave Life
Photo of one entrance of the largest cave in Vietnam (look for the tiny people)
Photos of the Inside of Caves, National Geographic "Your Shots"
Mexican Cave Crystals, National Geographic Photo Gallery
Improve this stalactite and stalagmite cartoon
SINK HOLES
Video home model of the formation of a sinkhole
Video, another sinkhole model, but with groundwater
Video of sinkhole formation animation
14 Amazing Sinkholes (supplemental)
Aquifers
Images, Types of Aquifers, Google Images
Glaciers
Video, How glaciers move and pick up sediments
Google Images, Glacier U-Shaped Valleys
Diagram, cross-section of a glacier
Photos, Abrasion of land by glaciers
Video clip-GIANT Iceberg Calving
Photo, Glacier calving to make an iceberg
Image, iceberg versus Titatnic
Video, "What's So Great About the Great Lakes?," TED Ed
Glaciers and glacial melt due to climate change affect the food web
Retreating Glaciers, then and now (latest photos are 2005)
Retreating Glaciers, then and now (only 2 glaciers, but latest photos are 2019)
Retreating Glaciers, then and now (only 3 glaciers, but latest photos are 2022)
Interactive from NASA, Global Ice Viewer (up to year 2004)
"What the world would look like if all the ice melted," National Geographic
Video, Wierd things found inside of glaciers
Landform Formation
Delta
Video, Little River Stream Table Timelapse (with fun music)
Video, Why do rivers have deltas?, MinuteEarth
Video, How a delta is formed (using clay), start at 2:14
Mississippi River Drainage Basin, Google Search
Video, Short stop-motion animation of delta formation (put on slow)
Sand Dunes
Sand dune travel model visualization
Sand dune movement visualization
Video, Why all sand is the same, MinuteEarth
Video, BBC How to make a sand dune
Video, Two Ways to Make a (Beach) Dune, NPR
Canyon
Video, Geologic creation of the Grand Canyon
Sand Bar
Video, One way that sandbars are formed
Tectonics
SUPPLEMENTAL Song, Layers of the Earth
🕹️Simulation, Magma must swirl up-then-down-then-up again because it's trapped
Video, Demo of how convection works inside of the mantle
Flocabulary song, Layers of the Earth and Plate Tectonics
Tectonic Plate Boundaries, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Teacher's Domain
SUPPLEMENTAL BBC Bitesize Tectonic Plates
Animation of continental drift, Pangea
Video, Earth 100 Million Years From Now
Video, Plate Tectonics, GeoDharma
Video, Bill Nye Plate Tectonics, Panagea scene
DELETE Visualization, Types of Plate Boundaries, Teacher's Domain
Flysch in Northern Spain; an example of dramatically noticeable tectonic uplift
DELETE Visualization, animation of what Earth will look like in the future
SUPPLEMENTAL Pangea in 250 million + years
Plat Boundary Movememts
DELETE BBC Bitesize Plate Tectonics
DELETE Video, Summary of types of plate boundaries "Life on Fire: Tectonic Volcanoes"
🕹️SIMULATIONS Plate Motion Simulation SEPUP
🕹️SIMULATION Tectonic Explorer Concord
DELETE Simulation, Ocean crust forms along boundary
DELETE Simulation, Divergent boundary
DELETE 🕹️Simulation, Convergent boundaries and metamorphic rocks
Image, Texas at time of convergent collision
Video, Plate Tectonics: Hawaiian Archipelago, Teacher's Domain
Video, when volcanoes go extinct demonstration
Divergent boundaries and creation of MidAtlantic Ridge
DELETE Animated overview how plates move "Earthquakes" (BBC)
Video, Plate Tectonics (Supplemental review video)
Video, Plate Tectonics (Minute Earth)
Video, How tsunamis work? (TedEd)
Video, Live footage of Japan tsunami
Video, Live aerial footage of 2004 Japan tsunami
Earth History
Video, Earth's History Plays Out on a Football Field, NPR Skunk Bear
Video, "Tribute to Earth Evolution, Part I"
Video, "Tribute to Earth Evolution, Part II"
SUPPLEMENTAL Video, What Makes a Dinosaur? MinuteEarth vs a dimetrodon
The Rock Cycle
HOOK: Cooking Steak and Corn with Lava (melted basalt rock)
HOOK: Lava creeps over to a can of energy drink. Why did that happen?
DELETE BiteSize BBC Rocks and Weathering (rock minerals, layering, rock cycle, etc)
Image, Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Rock
SUB LESSON: TPT sheets and The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Battle for Rock Mountain (Netflix)
Video, The Lava Affair, NPR Skunk Bear
BrainPop Rock Cycle Video
DELETE: Visualization, Rock Cycle
REPLACE WITH, diagram of the rock cycle
🕹️Rock Cycle Simulation, Geological Society
DELETE: PPT, Rock Cycle
Igneous Rock
Animation, How igneous rock is formed
Video, What Happens When Lava Meets Ice?
Famous eruptions (bottom of the article)
Photos, Google search of "igneous rocks"
Large cross-section of Mt. Etna
DELETE Visualization, Igneous Rock Formation 1
Animation, Igneous Rock Formation
Video, "Lava" Pixar short film
DELETE Visualization, Hot Spot Volcanoes
🕹️Simulation, convection currents and the hotspots that are created (and when they go extinct...)
REPLACE WITH: Image, Hot Spot Volcanoes
DELETE: Visualization, Hot spot volcanoes and the Hawaiian Islands
Interactive Plate Boundaries Map (Ring of Fire)
DELETE: Video, Plate Tectonics: Hawaiian Archipelago, Teacher's Domain
DELETE: Animations, Each type of volcano and how they erupt (geographeronline)
DELETE: Interactive, Types of volcanoes and how they erupt (Class Zone)
REPLACE WITH: Image, Type of Volcanoes
REPLACE WITH: Active Volcanoes in the US
DELETE: Animated Volcano Guide (BBC) (Types of volcanoes and how they erupt)
Photos, Google Search Pompeii
Video, A Day in Pompeii (recreated CGI footage from the Melbourne Museum)
DELETE: Interactive, Mt. Saint Helens: Before and After, Teacher's Domain
REPLACE with: Before and After pictures of Mt. St. Helens
Video, Geyser eruption at Yellowstone
Animation, Gesyer (put on silent)
Geothermal energy in Iceland, video
Beehive geyser at Yellowstone National Park, video
Metamorphic Rock
DELETE: Igneous Rock turns into a Metamorphic Rock, Visualization
REPLACE WITH: Animation, How metamorphic rock forms
Visualization video, Model of the inside of metamorphic rocks
Image, Pressure from above and below to metamorph rocks
Image, Sedimentary limestone rock changes to metamorphic marble rock
Image, Igneous basalt rock changes into metamorphic schist rock
Example of roadside metamorphic rock
Examples of multiple metamorphic rocks
DELETE Igneous to Metamorphic, Visualization II
Sedimentary Rock
Photos, Google image search of sedimentary rocks
DELETE Visualization, Sedimentary rock formation, Harcourt
REPLACE WITH Visualization video, Sedimentary rock compaction and cementation
DELETE Visualization, Cementing via mineral growth between sediments, McDougal
DELETE Visualization, Sedimentary Rock formation, deposition, compacting, cementing
Animation, How do stalactites and stalagmites form?
Rock Cycle Review:
Rock Cycle review activity, "Transform the Rock"
Rock Cycle processes online labeling activity
Maze-Chase Game, Choose the type of rock
🕹️SIMULATION Tectonic Explorer Concord
Rock Layers
Photos, Google image search of "rock layers"
DELETE Visualization, Types of Unconformity
DELETE Visualization, Types of Faults
DELETE Visualization, Example of an unconformity in the rock layers
DELETE Visualization, Rock layers change throughout geologic processes
DELETE Image, rock layers with intrusions
Photo, example of unconformity
Image, Example of unconformity
What might the vertical "rock" in these rock layer be?
Diagram, fossils in rock layers
Visualization video, Which layer is denser?
Fossils
DELETE Videos, BBC Fossils ("Mud Fossils" & "La Brea Death Trap")
REPLACE WITH Journey to 10,000 BS-The La Brea Tar Pits
What processes are bringing this fossil to the surface?
DELETE Clips from Bill Nye Fossils, 3.10-6:40
Video clip, How amber can cover a mosquito (1993 Jurassic Park clip: "Mr. DNA")
Google Images, Petrified Forest
Soil
Soil
DELETE: National Geographic Soil photos and facts imbedded in "quiz"
DELETE Diagram, Soil mineral leaching
Infographic, Soil and Biodiversity, UN
DELETE: Infographic, Soil Erosion, UN
REPLACE WITH: infographic, Soil Erosion by the Numbers
DELETE Infographic, Soils are the Foundation for Soil
DELETE Infographic, Polluted Soil, World Watch Institute
Infographic, Understanding Soil is the first rule for a green thumb
DELETE Infographic, Living versus Dead Soils (scroll down till you see the infographic)
Soil Erosion
Video, Selena's Science Experiment, Soil Erosion
Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels
Video, Renewable Energy (If Green Energy Is So Great, Why Are We Using?)
Video, Formation of Fossil Fuels
DELETE Animation of Coal and Petroleum/Crude Oil Formation
Video, Will Fossil Fuels Run Out? (Earth Lab, BBC)
Video, When will we stop using oil? (PBS, skunkbear)
Facts about the use of energy across the US (eia.gov)
Facts about how much energy Texas produces and uses (Fossil Fuel types)
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels graph
HOOK: The Carbon Emissions of a Cheeseburger Infographic
Infographic, Carbon Footprint of your Food
DELETE: Why Smog is Bad Infographic
Climate change (according to a kid)
Climate Time Machine, by NASA
NASA's Climate Kids, air report graph
NASA's Climate Kids, cartoons about climate change
NASA's Climate Kids, where is the evidence?
Interactive from NASA, Global Ice Viewer
Video, Global Warming: It's all about Carbon, Episode 3 (NPR) (Removing carbon for use)
Video, Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye
Video: Climate Science: What you need to know (PBS, Skunk Bear)
REPLACE WITH How climate change is already affecting us-NASA
Video, Why People Don't Believe in Climate Science
Video, (10 minutes) The Last Time the Climate Warmed (PBS).
Interactive: Energy Choices and Climate Change
Infographics:
How Climate Change is Endangering Animals
DELETE The Carbon Bathtub
Climate Change and Human Health
Global Impacts and Irreversible Impacts
DELETE Air Quality
DELETE Why Smog is Bad Infographic
Coal Does Not Turn into Diamonds
Alternative Energy Forms
Alternative Energy Forms
All Alternative Energy Forms
"Mapping Every Power Plant in the US"
Video, Renewable Energy Sources
Mechanical Energy
Tiles convert mechanical energy into electric energy
Video, A Bicycle-Powered House, NPR Skunk Bear
Solar Energy
Google Image Search, Solar Panel Field
Wind Energy
Diagram, Wind turbine size comparison
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine Farms
Image, floating ocean wind turbines
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine 18 Wheeler
Infographic, How Loud is a Wind Turbine? (Click on the gears)
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine Person
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine Cross Section
Interactive Infographic, How Wind Turbines Work
Infographic, Wind Energy in America
Generators
HOME EXTRA CREDIT & video referenced for Electric Generator Take-Home Project: How to build a simple homemade electric generator, video
PhET 🕹️Simulation of how a generator works
Bicycle wheel, wind, and generator make electricity, video
Diagram of a simple generator (scroll down)
Google Image Search, Coal Plant Electric Generator
Google Image Search, Hydroelectric Dam Generator
Google Image Search, Geothermal Power Plant Electric Generator
Geothermal Energy
Video: What is Geothermal Energy?
Diagram, How Geothermal Powerplants Work
Diagram, Inside a geothermal electric generator
How geothermal power plants work, video
Map of where geothermal energy is available in the USA
Biofuels
How it's Made: Turning Trash into Renewable Energy
Video, The Landfill and Using its Biomass to make electricity (waste and other ways to deal with it)
Sweden is importing trash to use a biofuel, video
Infographic, Trash-Based Biofuels
Diagram, Extracting methane from landfills to burn for electricity
Video: Does Biomass Energy Work?
Hydroelectric
Earth Science Review
Video, Nonrenewable Energy Resources/ GCSE Physics/ Doodle Science
Ecosystems & Adaptations
Ecosystems & Adaptations
Brainpop: Photosynthesis
Video, last scene of Dr. Binoc Photosynthesis about Carbon cycle
Video, Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle, Supplemental/take it further
Visual, Biome, Ecosystem, Community, Population, Species
CBS Sunday Morning Nature Soundscapes Videos
Tundra
Tundra, video slideshow (several species are wrong)
Tiaga/Boreal Forest
Soundscape, Taiga (Says "tundra" incorrectly)
Soundscape, Boreal Forest in Canada
Taiga/Boreal Forest, video-how to protect the boreal forests
Deserts
Soundscape, Relaxing Planet Earth II Desert sounds
Desert types of deserts and their locations
"11 of the Most Beautiful Deserts in the World," pictures
Temperate/Deciduous Forest
Video, How do Trees Survive Winter? MinuteEarth
Video, Why do Autumn leaves change colors?, Instant Egghead #51, Scientific American
Video, Estivation to survive desert heat ("Estivation: How mucus saved my life")
Savannah
Soundscape, Relaxing Planet Earth II Grassland sounds
Savanna, Planet Earth, video-DisneyPlus
Video/SlideShow, Challenges of Grasslands
Adaptations of plants to fire
Rainforest
Soundscape, relaxing planet Earth II Rainforest sounds
Cold rainforest, southern Chile, video
video, Which came first, the rainforest or rain (minuteEarth)
General Ecosystem Adaptations
"25 Animals With Insane Survival Adaptations"
SEARCH links to adaptations to different biomes:
MORE Adaptations, TEA
Food Chains & Food Webs
Food Chains & Food Webs
Video, What Happens To Your Body After You Die (Egghead: Scientific American)
Video, Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain (TedEd)
"Taylor Teaches: Blu Fin & Overfishing," video (till 1:13 mark)
"Ocean Alert: Overfishing," video
Overfishing explanation, video
Shark overfishing infographic about the number killed per hour
Shark infographic about finning practice
Polar Cod's role in the Arctic marine food web
World's marine life threatened with extinction
Everglades food web and disruption by invasive species
Top 10 Invasive Species in Texas, NPR
Time-lapse Video: Decomposition of a Rabbit
Ecosystems Change
Traits and Behaviors, & Adaptations
Traits and Behaviors, & Adaptations
Genetics
Video, How Medel's Pea Plant Helped Us Understand Genetics, TedEd
Video, What is DNA?, SRiddle8119 (until 2:11)
Video, Are Your Traits Dominant?
Video, Why Can't Mules Have Babies? MinuteEarth
Inherited Plant Traits
Vegetables You Can Buy Once and Then Grow Forever
Time-lapse of cucumber vine, video
Rafflesia flower adaptations, video (use rotting meat odor to attract pollinators)
Google images, Corpse Flower (use rotting meat odor to attract pollinators)
Welwitschia adaptations, video
A pitcher plant adapted to "eat" bat poop, article
"Bristlecone Pine Tree Ranger Minute," video about 4000-year-old trees and how they survive!
Phototropism timelapse of radish seedlings, video
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Phototropism maze with a Pea Plant, Smithsonian
HOME EXTRA CREDIT: Instructions for making a shoebox phototropism maze
Video, Orchids: Masters of Lying, Cheating, & Stealing
The Plant You Don't Have to Water
Video, The Secret Social Life of Plants, MinuteEarth (or why plants are AWESOME!)
Traits, Natural Selection, Texas Gateway
SEARCH links for plant adaptation research activity:
Inherited and Learned Animal Adaptations
Video, Bird Migrations ("Birds that Hibernate in Lakes?!), MinuteEarth
Video, Why don't scavengers get sick?, MinuteEarth
Video, Why Only Some Monkeys Have Tails, MinuteEarth
Video, Why did T-Rex have such tiny arms? MinuteEarth (avoid 0:16-0:22)
Teaser link, Why the Mantis Shrimp is My New Favorite Animal by the Oatmeal
Video, World's Deadliest: Mantis Shrimp, National Geographic
"Nature: Ocean Wonders, Encountering Sea Monsters, full video" (about cuttlefish and octopi)
Camel Adaptations TED Talk: "You have no idea where camels really came from," video
Image of a camel foot, spread out to spread camel's weight across the ground
It's just fat inside of a camel hump, image
Bird beaks are adapted to different eating styles, image
Why Woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches
Bird beak adaptations of finches, mini infographic
Video, Adapting to one's environment
Life Cycles
Life Cycles
Plant Life Cycles & Pollination
Video, Who are flowers trying to seduce (pollination)
Time-lapse of corn growth from kernel, video
Time-lapse of radish growth from seed, video
Time-lapse of a pear tree flower to fruit formation following pollination of the flowers
Time-lapse of cherry tree flower to cherries following flower pollination
How pine cones open in response to increased moisture in nature, video
Time-lapse of rose growth from seed, video
Time-lapse of oak tree acorn germination to sapling, video
Plant Life Cycles: Seed Dispersal OR Spreading By Other Strategies
Video, Wisteria exploding seed pods
Google Image Search, Floating Coconut
Image, Plant spreads by rhizomes
Image, Plant spreads by runners
Insect Life Cycles: Complete Metamorphosis
Video, Time-lapse of lady beetle life cycle
Complete metamorphosis of a ladybug, video links
Video, Time-lapse of a mosquito life cycle
Video, time-lapse of a Cicada molting
Complete metamorphosis of a mosquito, video
Complete metamorphosis of a Monarch butterfly, video
Video, Butterfly larva/caterpillar molting as it grows bigger
Video, Hurculese Beetle life cycle
Complete metamorphosis of a house fly, image
Video, What REALLY Happens when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly
Video, Incredible Moment When an Ant Larva becomes a pupa (and footage of other stages)
Video, National Geographic Bee life cycle
Video, Time-lapse of silk moth life cycle
Insect Life Cycles: Incomplete Metamorphosis
Incomplete metamorphosis of a dragonfly, image
"I'm a beautiful butterfly" clip from A Bug's Life
Amphibian Life Cycles
Diagram, Tiger Salamander life cycle
Google image search of giant salamanders in China
Google image search of beautiful salamanders
STAAR REVIEW
STAAR REVIEW
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition & Landform Formation STAAR
Video, Underwater sediment transport (SOME SEDIMENTS TRAVEL FASTER THAN OTERS: WHY?)
Video, Sediments settle in a jar and how it relates to real life rock layers (start @3:24)
Google Image Search: Smooth river rock erosion
Time-lapse, beach erosion over 82 years
Silent animation, How Caves Form
Image, GINORMOUS canyon on Mars
Video, How glaciers move sediments
Student Video, Sediments travel down rivers to make deltas
Sedimentary Rock & Fossil Fuel Formation, Alt. Energies and Nat. Resources
Visualization, Cementing via mineral growth between sediments, McDougal
Video, How sedimentary rock forms
Silent video, How sedimentary rocks form
Google image search, ocean fossils in limestone
Article with images, shows geothermal energy at a house, Pop. Mechanics
Video, A guide to energy (TED Talk) -renewable energy sources and generators
Interactive Infographic, How Wind Turbines Work
Energy STAAR
Animals see themselves in a mirror
Force STAAR
Texas Gateways: Judge an experiment
Video, Inertia, Beaker puppet, & traveling chair. Start at 40 sec.
Simple Machine: Levers Ted Ed video
Video: Momentum and Inertia Short
Astronomy STAAR
Video, What if the Earth Were Twice as Big?
Video, What if there were no Jupiter?
After the STAAR OR Extensions
After the STAAR OR Extensions
Water Pollution
Water Pollution
Infographic, Trash from your yard to the Colorado river
Infographic, Debris in our Oceans (from storm drains to killing turtles)
Infographic, The Ugly Journey of our Trash (downriver to oceans)
Infographic, 25 Years of Debris Collected in the Oceans
Infographic, Microplastic in US beach sand
Infographic, where do microplastics come from?
Infographic, Microplastics in the Ocean
Infographic, Microplastics in the Ocean and their Harms
Infographic, Microplastics in the food chain
Interactive, Ocean and wind currents map
Video, Trash Talk, Ocean Pollution (1:46-2:45ish)
Video, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Infographic, Pacific "islands" of trash (gyres)
Links For You To Explore By Yourself:
Infographic, Plastics Breakdown, One World One Ocean
Infographic, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Infographic, How Long Does Garbage Last in the Oceans?
Infographic, Microplastics in the food chain
Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Sorting Waste!
Sorting Waste!
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
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