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Liquid Crystal IR Detector
Middle schoolers experiment with one method of detecting infrared radiation. They simulate the detection of infrared radiation using a liquid crystal sheet.
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Binary Numbers
Students explore how a battery-powered light box demonstrates how to transmi timages.
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Colored Shadows
Sixth graders explore how three colored lights can be combined to produce a wide range of colors.
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Particulate Sampler
Students estimate the extent of particulate air pollution present in their neighborhoods.
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Persistence of Vision Tube
Students demonstrate how individual pieces of data combine to produce complete images.
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Clean Air
Students observe gas molecules in the atmosphere absorbing the light that goes through them.
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Analytical Spectroscope
Students using a spectroscope view different substances when heated with electricity.
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Water Prism
Students using a glass prism filled with water are able to see all of the visible colors found the sunlight.
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Pinhole Viewer
Young scholars make a pinhole viewer to demonstrate how it inverts light passing through it which produces inverted images.
NASA
Nasa: Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool
This set of activities teaches students about the big picture of science using Mars as an example: how to collect data, use evidence, and look at models.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Hubble Deep Field Academy
At this site, students can become a Steller Statistician, Cosmic Classifier, Galactic Guide or a Universal Graduate by attending the Hubble Deep Field Academy--and entering information in their Hubble Academy Log (HAL), which is assessed...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: A Puzzling Parallax
Did you know that ancient astronomers could measure the distance to other stars? They could also distinguish between stars and planets. How could they do that without modern technology of telescopes? See if you can discover the link...
NASA
Nasa: Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets: Transit Tracks
Classroom lesson for teaching astronomy uses PowerPoint presentations and illustrations of Kepler's light curves used to discover planets.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Classroom Planetarium
Create a classroom model of the solar system while teaching about relative size of all the planets, and each planet's distance from the sun.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science in Paradise: Big Dish
Investigate the science of radio astronomy, and create a model of a curved reflecting dish that will work like the Arecibo detector to detect electromagnetic waves. Explore risk using a risk space grid.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Science Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of science-related subjects. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
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