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Science Made Simple

Science Made Simple: Science Made Simple

For Students 9th - 10th
This website houses kids science projects and experiments, science fair projects and science articles.
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Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum: Domestic Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Has technology helped to shape our society? This is not necessarily a connection that comes to mind when we think about inventions and scientific advances. Learn about the history of domestic technology and its effects on the evolution...
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Micro Worlds Project: Advanced Light Source

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Basic and Applied Science

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Science can be "basic" or "applied." The goal of basic science is to understand how things work. Basic science is the source of most scientific theories. Applied...
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Other

Society of Chemical Industry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Formed in 1881 and based in London, the SCI became a place for science and business to blend. Topics such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals, environmental science, and biotechnology are discussed among members in over seventy countries....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Technology Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive timeline from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site features influential technological innovations from 1750 to 1990.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Maker Party, an initiative in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Charles H. Townes, ph.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Charles Townes who is credited for discovering microwave and laser technology from which came digital storage transforming our world.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
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Other

American Mathematical Society: Mathematical Moments

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to promote an awareness of mathematics as it occurs in nature, science, technology and human culture. This series of articles and podcasts can be used as teaching resources.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Negative Impacts of Science

For Students 4th - 8th
Discusses the negative impact science has had on the environment, on health, and through dependence on technology.
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Other

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Scientific Progress

For Students 11th - 12th
An article which attempts to explain how science has influenced society. Traces the history of scientific progress and how this has influenced societal behavior.
Lesson Plan
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Pulse: Striding Into the Future: Clinical Trials

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An interdisciplinary unit teaching the topic of scientific research performed on human subjects for a skin cancer study. The physics principles behind imaging techniques, the biological implications of UV radiation on the skin, the...
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Drugs, Politics, and Culture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From mind-altering drugs for pleasure to the push for pharmaceutical drugs, while examining this course of history and its effects on the world, take advantage of these resources. Includes PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: There Is No Cure for Polio

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the polio epidemic and vaccine.
Handout
PBS

Art21: Mel Chin

For Students 9th - 10th
This artist enjoys infusing art into unlikely places and uses current culture, such as technology, to bring about awareness of global issues.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Japanese Politics and Society

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Presenting an overview of the history of Japan explore the optional enhancements provided by MIT.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Japanese Politics and Society

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Presenting an overview of the history of Japan explore the optional enhancements provided by MIT.
Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Places on the Planet: Latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students learn how citizen scientists involved in the Geological Society of America's EarthCaching project use GPS technology and latitude and longitude coordinates to find special places on the Earth.
Article
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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Stanford University

Stanford: Bioengineering Boot Camp Draws Young and 'Fearless' Talent

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the cutting edge inventions being brought about by teens at Stanford University's bioengineering boot camp for high school students.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Technology at Work

For Teachers 1st - 5th
In this classroom activity, students research the importance of technologies which contributed to societal advancements throughout history.
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Hompage

For Students 9th - 10th
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Concussion: More Than 'Getting Your Bell Rung'

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains the science of concussions, including the damage they can do to the brain and symptoms of concussion. The article also describes the technology that scientists are using to detect concussion and how helmets are now...