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NASA

Nasa: Top 20 Comet Shoemaker Levy Images

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides the most popular images at the JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy home page during the month of July 1994, when the comet was impacting Jupiter.
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Oakland Museum of California

California's Untold Stories: Natives and Immigrants

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a tour through the history of natives and immigrants to the California Gold Rush area, including African American, California Indian, Chinese, and Latino.
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Other

Virtual Exploration Society: Leonid A. Kulik

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about Leonid Kulik, Soviet meteorite expert, who made several expeditions in the 1920's to the site of mass destruction in Siberia possibly caused by a meteorite.
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Cern: The Delphi Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of the DELPHI experiment at CERN. It provides links to various parts of the experiment and explains the operation of the detector. The general operation is explained at a basic level, but the physics is much more...
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Gold, Greed, & Genocide: The Story of California's 1849 Gold Rush

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the table of contents to explore this site which recounts the plight of the Native Americans who lived in California before the Gold Rush and the impact of the gold rush on their lives.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bouncing Balls (For High School)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine how different balls react when colliding with different surfaces. Also, they will have plenty of opportunity to learn how to calculate momentum and understand the principle of conservation of momentum.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: The Engine That Drives the Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Material to begin an exploration of volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate tectonics. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on volcano types, plate boundaries, and "hot spots," and ideas for...
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Bagheera

Bagheera: Florida (West Indian) Manatee

For Students 9th - 10th
This site takes a long look at the manatee, including this animal's unique characteristics, habit and range. Special emphasis is placed on how and why the Florida manatee is an endangered species, and what kind of conservation efforts...
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NBC

Timetable Set for Dealing With Asteroid Threat

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA has made predictions that by 2036 a quarter-mile-wide asteroid named Apophis could possibly collide with Earth. This site outlines what preventative measures scientists are taking to avoid this impact.
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Oregon State University

Osu: Volcano World: Spreading Plate Boundaries

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has pictures and descriptions of different areas on Earth where the plates are spreading. Also includes links to more information on slow, medium, and fast moving plates.
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University of Oregon

The Electronic Universe Project: Plate Boundaries/plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site to learn more about the different types of plate boundaries. Includes color pictures and easy-to-understand examples of how and why plates move the way they do.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This 5E model lesson helps students understand the concept of conservation of momentum.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Build a Rain Gauge

For Students 5th - 9th
In this experiment, students build and calibrate a rain gauge and use it to measure and record how much rain falls in their local area each time it rains.
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Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Theory of Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed discussion of plate tectonics. Looks at continental drift, types of tectonic plates and plate boundaries, and primary and secondary tectonic plates.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum: Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This page provides a summary of each section in Chapter 10: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum from the AP Physics online text.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Expeditions to the Sea Floor: Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive site provides information on the Breakup of Pangea, plate boundaries, plate movements as well as a quiz.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Bottle Cap Hockey

For Students K - 1st
Explore sports science and see how many points can you score with your bottle caps in Ruff's take on table hockey.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Fish Force

For Students K - 1st
Use science inquiry to predict and investigate forces and motion to help rescue Ruff's plushie from the penguins' ice rink in this sports science game.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Sports Science

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about sports science and force and motion alongside Ruff Ruffman.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Breaking a Molecular Bond

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you break the bond between the two atoms?
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Curated OER

Artist's Rendition of Deep Impact's Collision With Comet Tempel 1

For Students 9th - 10th
National Public Radio provides highlights of both the top national and international news, as well as various editorials, commentaries, and reviews. The majority of the content is available in audio format.
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Other

Pibs: How Dangerous Are Earth Crossing Objects?

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource page discusses how close Earth is to a collision with other objects. This page gives helpful information about comets and asteroids as well links to other resources on the topic.
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Skateboard Safety Tips

For Students 9th - 10th
Sprains, fractures, contusions and abrasions are the most common types of injuries from riding a skateboard. Deaths due to collisions with cars and from falls also are reported. Several factors - lack of protective equipment, poor board...

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