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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Einstein's Concept of Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores Einstein's theory of gravity and the warping of space-time.
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Native Voices: Concepts of Health and Illness

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition on the healing practices and traditions of Native Americans from 100,000 years ago up to the present day. Information is organized by theme and by historical time period, and many well known Native American figures are profiled.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Lesson: Internet Time Capsule [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students learn about the concept of "time capsules" and then apply the idea by selecting time capsule contents to represent both the time they live in and their own lives and tastes. They then extend this idea to online...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Conception of the Buddha to Be in Queen Maya's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This relief scene from around 100 to 300 depicts the dream of Maya, the mother of the historical Buddha. Queen Maya is asleep in her palace under a full moon. An attendant stands guard outside. In her dream, a white elephant enters her...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Elapsed Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will understand the concept of elapsed time and be able to calculate elapsed time given the starting and ending time.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The History of Keeping Time

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief video that outlines the ways that people have kept time throughout history. [3:48] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: On Time

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia-rich site that examines time and our conception of it: marking time, mechanizing time, synchronizing time, saving time, and expanding time.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion: Understanding Frame of Reference

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lab activity, middle schoolers investigate the concept of frame of reference by observing, describing and drawing the same walking motion from different positions. Additionally, they determine the effect of frame of reference on...
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An extensive collection of teacher resources to aide in teaching time. There are smartboard and PowerPoint presentations, and many worksheets and ideas for teachers. Includes activities on time, calendar, months, and days.
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Other

Western Oregon University: Earth System Science: Geologic Time [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An 81-page slideshow that looks at the principles of geology with respect to relative dating, at different concepts describing geological processes, at absolute age and radiometric dating, at the eons and eras in the geologic time scale,...
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Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Is Paying Over Time a Smart Move?

For Students 9th - 10th
At T.V. 411 you can explore the concept of paying over time with situations involving credit cards, rent to own items, and more. This interactive lesson gives the learner an opportunity to make decisions about money management.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Time Scale Analogy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Introduce students to the vastness of geologic time and the concept of scale.
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Other

Miami Dade College: Vic 1000 Visual Comm Lecture Notes Ch. 14, 17, 18 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) identifies the key points in chapters 14, 17, and 18. These chapters are about...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Time Slice Special Test

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
A concise tool for assessing time concepts such as telling time and elapsed time using analog clocks. Assessment is scored online and scores are compared with scores of all test takers. Great for use as a quick assessment.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Solving for Start Time End Time or Elapsed Time

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video involves filling in a chart of start time, end time, and elapsed time describing how to add and subtract time in hour and minutes. The video is followed by...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: American Field Guide: Relative Dating Telling Time Using Fossils

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website integrates video footage and information with lesson plans and activities to teach students about the concept of relative dating. Students will graph a range chart for ammonites, determine the geologic age for several rocks,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Plotting Earthquakes With Near Real Time Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson teaches the concept of plate tectonics. Learners will access the United States Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center and plot the longitude latitude and depth of earthquakes on a physiographic chart.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti: Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Is leisure time really shrinking?," into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot. Students will determine if these graphs intersect and learn...
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Power of Ten

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
This website from The Math Page explains and defines basic arithmetic terms and place value concepts. There is even a practice section at the very end of the lesson.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Law Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Georgia State University Department of Physics and Astronomy is an indexing page for the HyperPhysics site. The page links to a variety of other pages which discuss concepts related to entropy and the second law of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Experiencing Newton's Laws of Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will approach the study of Newton's 3 Laws of Motion using McGraw-Hill Science textbook Unit F. The students will be given an overview of the laws and vocabulary words to study. After introducing and explaining the concept of...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Telling Time Activity

For Teachers 1st - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the concept of time while providing a practice activity. Use as a center or whole group instruction. Your students will be telling time in no time!!! :0)
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New York Times

New York Times: From Sketch to Screen: "A Very Long Engagement"

For Students 9th - 10th
Launch an audio slideshow, narrated by the director of the film, about storyboarding sequences in "A Very Long Engagement." An interesting site for considering the work of the storyboard artist, whose sketching technique is wonderfully...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Concept to Classroom is a free series of award-winning professional development workshops covering important and timely topics in education such as: after-school programs, cooperative and collaborative learning, inquiry-based learning,...

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