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NASA

Keeping Nine Eyes on the Weather

For Students 9th - 12th
Take a look at climate change from another angle. Readers learn about the MISR instrument on the Terra satellite and how it studies Earth. Pupils experience how the multiple cameras give scientists multiple views so they can better study...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Controlled Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
An article that explores how scientist conduct controlled experiments to test hypotheses.
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: A Voice on a Sunbeam

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is described a simple process to 'put a voice on a sunbeam' and transmit it over a distance. It is a fascinating example of amplitude modulation of light using sound vibrations. It then describes how the modulated light is detected...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Drawing Circles Around Ants

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do ants sometimes ruin your picnic? There are some chemical ant repellents you can spray to keep them away, but who wants to spray poison all over their food? In this experiment you can investigate some less toxic solutions that may be...
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Rice University

Rice University: Galileo's Pendulum Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of the Rice University provides a great look into the pendulum experimens of Galileo. Contains first-hand writings and examples of experiments along with links to additional information.
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Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: Realization of Global Warming [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing the history of how scientists developed their current understanding of global warming. It discusses why it is difficult for some people to accept that human beings have caused the Earth to warm, without controlled...
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquake Science Fair Project Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th
Twenty earthquake-related science fair project ideas. Each idea has a short description of a possible investigation.
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: One Eye, 3 D

For Students 3rd - 8th
Article describes an experiment for viewing images in 3D without the aid of special technology or glasses. Includes a vocabulary list.
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Nature Resets Body's Clock

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on a recent study which found that people who spent a week in the woods experience a shift of two hours in their internal clocks. Includes a list of vocabulary words from the article.
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Other

On Science: Addicting Kids to Nicotine

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizing research found at the Mayo Clinic, this article explains why kids, who have only smoked a few cigarettes, "experience the same symptoms of nicotine addiction as adults who smoke heavily." Learn about how nicotine affects the...
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Experiments With Homemade Batteries

For Students 9th - 10th
Simple homemade batteries are described that can be made from items found in the home or school lab. These experiments help students understand how to wire them up, the origin of current, voltage and power, as well as the chemistry that...
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Leonardo: Experiment, Experience, Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A media-rich examination of Leonardo's work that includes a timeline of the artist's life, animations of his drawings that attempt to unlock something of the genius in his thinking, up-close details from his notebooks, thematic looks at...
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Science Daily

Science Daily: Rocket Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains advances in the use of boron combustion rocket engines.
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Soldering and Soldering Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Soldering requires more skill than it looks. As with a lot of practical skills one learns a lot by trail, error and experience. Some tips are discussed here. These notes were written before regulations were introduced requiring solder to...
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Demonstration of Radio Waves Generated by Mobile Phone

For Students 9th - 10th
Described is a simple low cost home-made device that converts the radio wave energy from a mobile phone signal into electricity to light an LED. No battery or complex circuitry is required. The device can form the basis of a range of...
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Popular Science

Popular Science: Scientists Color Silk by Feeding Silkworms Fabric Dyes

For Students 9th - 10th
Account of experiments scientists are performing to get silkworms to produce colored silk.
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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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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Bats Use Compass for Long Trips

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, this article discusses research connected to the tracking of several big brown bats as they headed back to their homes. The experiment utilized several magnetic fields in attempts to disrupt the paths taken by...
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Mendel's Investigation

For Students 9th - 10th
Students identify how Mendel's study of science and math was important to his success in research.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Helping High Schoolers Find Research and Stem Field Opportunities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
I've been involved in shepherding high school students through the world of Independent Research for nearly two decade. I know firsthand the impact that spending one or two summers working in a scientific institution with a real...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Discovery of the Electron and Nucleus

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Thomson's cathode ray experiment and the plum pudding model and Rutherford's gold foil experiment.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Photoelectric Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Explaining the experiments on the photoelectric effect. How these experiments led to the idea of light behaving as a particle of energy called a photon.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduction to the quantum mechanical model of the atom: Thinking about electrons as probabilistic matter waves using the de Broglie wavelength, the Schrodinger equation, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Electron spin and the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Force Over Distance

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you think of an experiment that would let you see how magnetic force depends on distance?

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