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Speeding Up Space Travel | PBS LearningMediaLearn about innovations in rocket technology that could change the way humans explore space in this video excerpt from NOVA scienceNOW: "Can We Make It to Mars?" Correspondent Jake Ward looks at the hazards of long-term space travel, the limitations of chemical rockets, and new kinds of rockets that are faster and more efficient. Astrophysicist and former astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz explains his work on VASIMR, a rocket that directs hot plasma through a magnetic nozzle for propulsion. A plasma rocket could make a round-trip flight to Mars in just five months (compared to 2.5 years with a conventional rocket) and would transform space exploration. This video is available in both English and Spanish audio, along with corresponding closed captions.

Clue into Climate | PBS LearningMediaLearn about the science of climate change–from what greenhouse gases are to how they warm the Earth–and hear from people whose work helps us understand our changing planet. This collection explores the causes of climate change, its impacts on freshwater and ecosystems, and strategies for curbing and adapting to climate change.

NOVA Labs | PBS LearningMediaNOVA Labs is a new digital platform where "citizen scientists" can actively participate in the scientific process and take part in real-world investigations by visualizing, analyzing, and playing with the same data that scientists use. Each NOVA Lab is unique, and focuses on a different area of active research. But all of them illustrate key concepts with engaging and informative videos that address why these research topics matter to students and society. In this collection, you'll find original short-form videos from the Sun Lab, Energy Lab, Cloud Lab, RNA Lab, Cybersecurity Lab, and Evolution Lab. To join NOVA’s expanding online educator community focused on the successful use of media and games in the STEM classroom, read our Education Blog and subscribe to our Spark educator newsletter. For more up-to-date information, please find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms | PBS LearningMediaWGBH in collaboration with NASA presents digital media resources you can use to teach topics in K–12 Earth and Space Science. These free resources are organized into four grade bands. Each resource emphasizes engaging students in phenomena related to core ideas and science and engineering practices of the Next Generation Science Standards.

SciShow KidsSciShow Kids explores all those curious topics that make us ask "why?" Every Tuesday and Thursday, Jessi and her robot rat Squeaks answer your questions and ...

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Home Sweet Home | PBS LearningMediaIn this lesson, students choose a card describing one of six possible planetary environments and design a form of life that can thrive in the conditions outlined on the card.

The Watershed | Salt River Project | PBS LearningMediaThe videos in this collection will give an understanding that a watershed includes a healthy forest, undergrowth, creeks, streams and rivers that all drain toward a large body of water—in this case, the Salt and Verde Rivers. These components work together to store and filter water as it moves through the watershed.

Five Physics Experiments for the Holidays | Physics Girl | PBS LearningMediaThese five holiday-themed physics experiments will keep you and your family busy with science during the winter holidays! All experiments involve materials found around the house. Parental supervision advised.

Investigating Why Summer Days Have More Daylight | Lesson Plan | PBS LearningMediaUse models of the Earth–Sun system and daylight data to gather evidence that supports an explanation of why summer days have more daylight than winter days. This lesson plan includes an interactive lesson in which students use and make their own models of the Earth–Sun systems to demonstrate understanding of how the Sun illuminates the hemispheres differently during summer and winter.

Engineering Is... | PBS LearningMediaExplore Engineering Is… , a collection of media resources that focuses on the intersection of engineering and science. The new national science education standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, emphasize engineering design as an essential part of science education. With the Engineering Is… collection, middle- and high-school students can learn about scientists and engineers working together across disciplines to investigate issues, make discoveries and develop solutions.

Rate Tornado Damage | PBS LearningMediaThe whirling winds of tornadoes can produce damage that ranges from broken tree limbs to a block of houses swept from their foundations. They can inflict utter devastation across a wide swath of land or, remarkably, destroy one house and leave others on either side largely untouched. In this interactive activity from NOVA, you will evaluate scenes of destruction utilizing the most widely used scale for assessing a tornado's intensity, the Fujita scale. This interactive activity requires Adobe Flash Player.

Chasing Tornadoes | PBS LearningMediaFrom an outsider's perspective, storm chasing might appear to involve hours and hours of boredom, accentuated by a few moments of unimaginable excitement—or terror—depending on one's love or fear of tornadoes. But to tornado researchers, the effort and expense they expend in search of a single tornado-producing storm reflect the importance of these events in terms of their impact on lives and property. This video segment adapted from NOVA follows some of the scientists who study these violent storms and highlights what they've learned about the storms and what they still want to know about the conditions that cause them. This video is available in both English and Spanish audio, along with corresponding closed captions.

Lessons/Activities

How did Plants Change our Planet

Oreo Plate Tectonics

Human Impact- Invasive Species

Modeling a Sunset with Milk

Sound Mapping

Lesson- Marine Debris in Sea Birds, A Virtual Bolus Dissection

Using a Freezing-point Depression to Make Ice Cream!

Density

Mixtures and Solutions

Making a Stethoscope

Virtual Aquarium Tour

Baggie Bubble Lamp

Virtual Bryce Canyon

Virtual Trip to the Planetarium

Virtual Carlsbad Cavern

Virtual Dry Tortugas

What Happens When a Whale Dies?

Virtual Kenai Fjords

Borneo- the Symphony of of the Rainforest

Observing Boyle's & Charles's Law

Chicken Egg Cell Membrane

Katmai: Visiting Bear & Salmon

Coral Reefs of Palau

Virtual Blue Whale Necropsy

Building a 3d Energy Pyramid

Soap Cell Membrane

Soap cell membrane slide show

Backyard Pill Bug Study

DDT in Borneo

Food Web Activity

Exploring the Worlds largest Cave System

Nutrient and Matter Cycling

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