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American Heart Association

American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Physical Activity: Get Moving!

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the health benefits of exercise. Content includes helpful tips on how to incorporate activity into your daily life and a link to the association's guidelines for improving heart health through fitness.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity & Health: Adolescents & Young Adults

For Students 9th - 10th
The finding on whether or not today's teens get enough exercise - they don't. Give suggestions to correct this situation and tells the benefits to daily physical activity.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: More Physical Geography and Borders

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson on the physical features that create borders and boundaries. Small group and whole class activities, background information, worksheets and assessment.
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Other

Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
The FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) is one of the five national research institutes of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). The research at AMOLF is focused on selected areas of atomic,...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity and Health at a Glance

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides notes on exercise, its health benefits, and its role in helping all people feel healthier and stronger. Learn about different types of exercises you can do to improve you health. Also, read facts about adults and...
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Sesame Street

Sesame Street: Healthy Habits for Life

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This comprehensive resource will give you the tools you need to teach children about eating right and being physically active so that they can establish healthy habits for life. Included are easy-to-use, fun lessons and activities that...
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Pennsylvania State University

Applied Physics: Model Analysis of an Electric Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
Great site explores the physics behind an electrical guitar. Outlines process for conducting an experiment on sound vibrations and provides animated GIF movies showing the first five modes of vibration.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Physics/mechanics (Force and Motion)

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of mechanics activities. Many pertain to Newton's laws of motion. Step-by-step directions provided with illustrations. Great for teacher demos or student projects.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:you Be the Coach

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the essential physical skills needed to play a sport. Explore why sports, athletics or physical activities should be an important part of teens' lives.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Sports Screeners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine how physical activity and sports are depicted in movies and on television. Hypothesize how images of physical activity and sports depictions in entertainment can influence young people's attitudes and behaviors.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Season Fitness

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students learn about the...
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Other

Institute of Physics: Estimating the Size of a Molecule Using an Oil Film

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help your students understand the scale of nanosize objects with this activity. By placing a drop of oil on top of another, students will estimate the size of an oil molecule. Includes activity instructions, analysis questions and...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Physical Science: Gravity Gets You Down

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this lesson, students make predictions about falling objects of different sizes and masses to learn about gravity and air resistance. Includes audio vocabulary list and extension activities.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Carbon Dioxide

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what carbon dioxide is, where it is found, sources of it, and describes human activities that contribute to carbon depletion and increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (Updated: February 22, 2013)
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Conflict on the Danube

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson in which young scholars use maps and text to explore physical and cultural boundaries and the disputes over control of them. Includes two activities with comprehensive and adaptable materials.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Molecular Transport Phenomena: Diffusion, Osmosis, & Related Proc

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define diffusion, osmosis, dialysis, and active transport and to calculate diffusion rates.
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Kqed: The Lowdown: Life Expectancy: Finding Ratio Relationships

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive map, learn how life expectancy, obesity, hypertension, and physical activity rates have changed dramatically throughout the United States over the last three decades.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Physics of Bridges

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Introduce learners to physics concepts that engineers use when building a bridge. This curriculum unit includes concepts such as Newton's Third Law, stress on a material, vibration, and resonance. Unit includes lectures, lab activities,...
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Pennsylvania State University

Applied Physics: Vibrational Modes of a Circular Membrane (Drums)

For Students 9th - 10th
Site tracks the vibrations of a drum and provides an animated movie.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines inertial and gravitational mass, their scientific history, formulas used in their calculation, the definition of weight, units used for mass, and mass as perceived in the theory of special relativity.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lab Activity: Aviation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site from the Illinois Institute of Technology provides a student lab activity in which the flight of a paper airplane is investigated and studied. Designed for primary grades, but easily adaptable for junior high students.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Ocean Abiotic Factors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After looking at examples of biotic and abiotic factors in ecosystems, students focus on abiotic factors in marine ecosystems, the physical processes that are involved, and the impact human activities can have on these. Includes handouts...
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Other

Bright Hub Education: Improving Spatial Awareness in Toddlers

For Teachers Pre-K
Parents and teachers can help young children develop spatial ability by using the following spatial toddler activities with their youngsters or students.

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