Three short videos from the America on the Move exhibition provide an overview of American transportation history. Click on the icons to see the videos, or just read the scripts.

This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on cell transport and homeostasis.

Explore the process of active transport.

Explore the process of cell transport across a cell membrane.

This cellular biology page presents extensive detail on the chemical nature of the cell membrane. Using the Chime plug-in, students can manipulate and study models of the membrane.

Explore the passive transport process of diffusion.

Here are photographs and short descriptions of the horses, wagons, bridges, railroads, and steamboats used for transportation in the Civil War.

The circulatory system transports substances between the exchange surface and cells. It delivers oxygen and glucose to the tissues for respiration, which is the release of energy to cells.

Understand plant processes including plant hormones, nutrition, and transport in this online, college-level textbook.

Find out about the cell process of active transport, and how it is carried out.

This quick reference page explains the different types of passive transport in cells.

Challenge your students to create a satellite that can hold a cup of water and does not leak during a bumpy rocket launch. This site comes complete with a challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their...

A detailed explanation, accompanied by labeled illustrations and real-time movies, showing how vesicles move molecules around, both inside and outside a cell.

The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate how aircraft have decreased the amount of time it takes to transport people and cargo. Students will compute the time it takes to travel between two cities for several modes of...

The Industrial Revolution saw advancement in all areas of life. Take a look at the achievements in transportation such as improved roads, canals, and railways. Also included is a timeline of inventions in this area.

Travel back in time to see what the pioneers used for transportation and to do their daily work. Great pictures of wagons of the west including the chuck wagon, spring wagon, farm wagon, and freight wagon. There is a link at the bottom...

Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the science of paleontology. Fossil formulation and details about the work of paleontologists are discussed. Find out how paleontologists discover, stabilize, and...

From managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use.

A detailed site providing lots of information about the Lenapes. Topics covered include where they lived, their communities, work, tools, shelter, clothing, food, transportation, pastimes and entertainment, medicine and health, beliefs,...

In a class demonstration, students observe a simple water cycle model to better understand its role in pollutant transport. This activity shows one way in which pollution is affected by the water cycle; it simulates a point source of...

In this activity, students further investigate major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, hills, oceans and plateaus). They build a three-dimensional model of a landscape depicting several of these landforms. Once they have built...

A very detailed discussion of ATP. Looks at its structure, how it works, the reactions that take place that use it or produce it, the phosphocreatine system, glycolysis, the lactic acid cycle, aerobic respiration, the citric acid cycle,...

Kids learn about the boats and transportation of Ancient Egypt. The Nile River was an important way to travel using ships and rafts.

Learn all about life in the cities of England in 1775. The site also contains links to transportation and entertainment information.