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Curated OER
Plan a Schedule
In this daily schedule worksheet, students analyze a chart that shows a schedule for events at a museum. Students plan a visit by making a schedule of events they would like in their own schedule.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Do Submarines Need Fins?
In this science project, you can investigate how submarines use stabilizing fins to move forward. Exploring friction and buoyant force you will get closer to understanding how these large ships function. Research resources are included...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Bottled Up Buoyancy
Sure you understand what makes submarines cool, they allow us go underwater and explore the sea! But understanding how they function is a completely different matter. This lab will help you investigate how submarines dive and surface by...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Submarine
Students are challenged to create a submarine that will dive down through the water and come back to the surface. This site includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Design a Submarine
Become an engineer, and design a submarine that moves in the water like a real submarine. Try making it sink, float, and hover in the water.
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Make a Cartesian Diver!
This site presents a procedure for creating a cartesian diver, a miniature submarine which rises or sinks depending upon the water pressure within a closed bottle. The site also introduces basic concepts of water and air pressure.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Jules Verne, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
This site has links to the full text from the University of Virginia of Jules Verne's science fiction work "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
Science Struck
Science Struck: Underwater Volcano Facts
Provides information about underwater volcanoes.
Florida State University
Florida State University: William Henry Bragg
A sound biography, focusing mainly on Bragg's science, what he discovered and what it's significance was. Lists many of his honors.
Library of Congress
Loc: What in the World Is That?
Can you match the picture to the correct invention? Read about these inventions and the importance of them. Also included are related sites to find further information about each invention.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Submarines, Secrets, and Spies: Sounds Underwater (Hot Science)
Examine factors that affect how sound travels underwater and explore the range of sounds underwater creatures make.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The program uses the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us. Episode topics...