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1st Semester
STEM, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
Experimental Design: Why we do multiple trials
Experimental Design: Why we make tests fair
Experimental Design: What makes the experiments valid
Matter (Science)
DENSITY, HOT & COLD MATTER, PHYSICAL STATES
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Density activities for home, Steve Spangler website
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Salt water density column (similar to how a brine lake forms underwater)
Density and brine lakes that form underwater
Planet and moon density infographic
Running on Ooblek, density
Ooblek dancing on audio speakers, density
Slo Mo Guys show Ooblek dancing on speakers
Bill Nye, Non-Newtonian fluids and an oil spill
Hot and cold water demonstration
Hot and cold water resist mixing
PhET simulation, Balloons and Buoyancy, BELOW
Click to Run
Click to Run
PhET simulation, Density, ABOVE
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Hot and cold water activity for home video
"The Behaviour of Matter," BBC Bitesize
Additional States of Matter
4 States of Matter as related to temperature
States of Matter infographic, MadScience
Video, Hot air rises (spiral over stover top)
Video, Hot air rises (fills up balloon)
Video, Hot air rises (hot air balloon on a stove burner)
Video, Popcorn, NPR Skun Bear (Supplemental only)
V
ideo, Food coloring spreads out faster in hot vs. cold water
Game:
Solid, Liquid, Gas, or Plasma
PhET States of Matter simulation, below
Click to Run
BOILING, FREEZING & MELTING POINTS, & THERMAL CONDUCTION
List of Boiling and Freezing Points for Solvents
Boiling, Freezing, and Melting Points for Different Elements
Boiling points of various gasses
Melting/Freezing points of various metals
Video: "Which freezes faster: hot water or cold water?"
Video: Thermal energy conduction awesomenesss with a baloon and Steve Spangler
Thermal Conductivity chart for common gasses and materials
Visual simulation of heat being transferred, BBC Bitesize
How an igloo keeps you warm?
MAGNETIC FIELD
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video, Make a homemade compass
Video, Earth's Magnetic Field and why we need it
, for quick version start at 2:15.
Video, supplemental video about why Earth needs a magnetic field and what happened to Mars when it lost its magnetic field.
Infographic, Auroras
Image, Earth's Magnetic Field and solar winds
Image, Earth's magnetic field
Click to Run
PhET simulation for magnetic fields and compasses.
Supplemental Video, Magnets: How Do They Work? (minutephysics)
USING PHYSICAL PROPERTIES TO SEPARATE MIXTURES
Video, Physical properties help separate contaminants in water at wastewater plants; "Wastewater: Where does it go?"
Video, Physical properties help separate materials to be recycled; "How does the recycling machine work?"
Video, How are magnets used to separate recycling?
Video, supplemental video about how single stream recycling centers sort items based on their physical properties. Start at 1:22
Video, How to Separate the Inseparable, Ted ED
Animation, Salt (a solute) being dissolved by a solvent (water)
Video, How water dissolves salt (at molecular level)
Video, an"Solution 3D Animation" to replace the link above
Video, Commercial for Tootsi Pops "How Many Licks Does It Take..."
Distillation, BBC Bitesize
Article: What is fractional distillation? (to understand the image about petroleum distillation)
Image, Petroluem Distillation to separate petroleum into its different parts
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Homemade distillation device to clean dirty water (it's still NOT clean enough to drink, though); "How to Use the Desert Tent Method to Clean Water."
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Homade Solar Water Distiller
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Chromotography at Home (removing the colors from an ink solution)
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Additional Chromotography video with better results
Separating mixtures and solutions online "quiz" and lesson
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
How to separate iron from Total cereal
Energy (Science)
Energy Forms
Video, Bill Nye on what energy actually is
Video: Bill Nye on Thermal Energy
Video: What is Energy? (Sci Show)
Video, Conduct versus Radiation rap
Video, Conduction vs Convection vs. Radiation (Eureka)
Sound
Video, Air Molecules move across room, no air is Space
Video, Skunkbear NPR, What does sound look like?
Video, "How your ears work" by kidshealth.org
Video, What vibrations look like (Cymatics)
Video, Song about the speed of sound
Video, Cool sound wave and water "trick"
Click to Run
PhET simulation about sound waves
Click to Run
PhET simulation about sound wave interference
Click to Run
PhET simulation for "sound waves on a string" and its relationship to amplitude and frequency
Video, How ship sonar works
Video, Sperm Whales use sonar to locate food "Sperm Whale versus Giant Squid"
Article about Sperm Whales and their sonar capabilities
Article about Sperm Whales and the initial hypothesis that they could stun prey with their sound waves
Video, the role of low and high frequeny in StarWars so
Video, Audio Illusions
Electricity
Video, How Small Is An Atom? (TEDed)
Cross-section of an atom
Scale Model to view how much smaller atoms are than cells
Background information about electricity, article
Animation, Charge flow during a lighting storm
Video, "What is lightning," and static electricity
Beautiful lightning strike photos, National Geographic
Lightning within friction-filled volcanic explosions
Video: Top 10 Lightning Strikes (for this photographer)
Video: TED talk about the complexities of static electricity
Video, History of electricic study and static electricity (TED Ed)
Video, Exploring Static Electricty
Click to Run
PhET simulation for electric charges
Click to Run
PhET simulation for static charges in a balloon
Click to Run
PhET simulation about static electricity, carpets, and metal door knobs. "John Travoltage."
Video, How dissolving solutes can require positive and negative charges
Click to Run
PhET simulation for how electricity flows and stops with light switches.
Click to Run
PhET simulation for electromagnets and the magnetic field.
Diagram of a simple iron nail electromagnet
Diagram of the magnetic field of an iron nail electromagnet
Infographic for how the electromagnets in speakers and microphones work
Video, Electromagnetic crane on a train car cleaning up tracks
Supplemental video: Exploding soda cans with electromagnetic currents
Flashlight electron flow animation
Video: TED-Ed "How do batteries work?"
Diagram of how batteries work
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video: Making a lemon battery
Video: Spangler lemon battery video.
Question to answer:
Which energy form was converted to which energy form?
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video: How to make a coin battery
.
Question to answer:
Which energy form was converted to which energy form?
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
How to make a vinegar battery?
Question to answer:
Which energy form was converted to which energy form?
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Steve Spangler at-home activites about Electricity.
Question to answer:
Which things have we learned in class that your chosen activity relates to?
Light
Diagram of only the color red reflecting off a ladybug
Google images of "reflection"
Diagram of the visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum
Diagram 2 of the visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum
Diagram 3 of the visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum
Diagram, size comparisions of the wave lengths on the electromagnetic spectrum
Infographic, Electromagnetic Spectrum
Video about the electromagnetic spectrum: "Light: Crash Course Astronomy
#24"
Video, "Rewriting Physics: What is Light? Photons Explained"
Video, Why is the color red used to say "danger"
Click to Run
PhET simulation for light refraction
Animation, light traveling into water
Images of cow eye dissection and the lenses inside
Images of refraction
Images of Glass Bricks that refract light
Spearfishing image from National Geographic
Diagrams of spearfishing and refraction
Video of how rainbows form
Interactive rainbow ROYGBIV explanation
Image of rainbow over Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland
Moon and sun halos (rainbows)
Images of moon halos (lunar rainbows around the moon)
Video, Review of Refraction (Smart Learning for All)
Light Energy Quiz
Using telescopes to see into the universe's past: "Hubble Probes the Early Universe"
Images of the Hubble space telescope inside of space shuttle
Video, Light Review with Dr. Benocs
Force & Motion
Video, Pool tricks, predicting different angels and force
Video, Newton's Cradle
Interactive Newton's Cradle
(if doesn't work, try using InternetExplorer)
Video, Bowling Ball and Feather dropped at same speed inside a vacuum
Laws of Motion
Video, Inertia, Beaker puppet, & traveling chair.
Start at 40 sec.
Video, Laws of Motion and the game of hockey
Video, Space Station boost proves all three laws of motion
Video, Astronaut uses hair to show Newton's laws of motion
Image, Farting Rainbows (and the Laws of Motion behind it) (use with White Board)
Image, Friction and the Laws of Motion behind it (use with White Board)
Flobabulary, Force Songs
Click to Run
PhET simulation for
Laws of Motion
,
Friction
, &
Acceleration
Click to Run
PhET simulation for friction and speed
Click to Run
PhET simulation for Friction and Thermal Energy (thermodynamics)
Click to Run
PhET simulation to show 3rd Law of Motion and Pendulums in action (and the Law of Conservation)
Click to Run
PhET simulation for balanced and unbalanced forces
Simple Machines
Pulleys
Video: Pulleys, Simple Machines
Video, Pulleys, Macomi Kids
Pulley Diagram of fixed pulley
Pulley diagram of multiple pulleys
Simulation, 1, 2, or 3 Pulleys (interactogram)
Simulation, 1,2,3,4,5,or 6 pulleys (the physics aviary)
Simulation, pulleys with changeable variables (compass project)
Animation, pulley system attached to ceiling
Simulation, Pulley with changing amounts of friction (fire truck one)
Infographic, Elevators and pulleys
The physics of pulleys (Angular Vector Forces), article
Inclined Planes
Video, What is an inclined plane? (Macomi Kids)
Fulcrums and Levers
Video, TedEd: The Mighty Mathematics of the Lever
Wheel and Axle
Video, Wheel and axle (Macomi Kids)
Click to Run
PhET simulation for fulcrums and levers
Weather, Climate, Atmosphere, and Water Cycle
Wind
NOTE: Do not attempt any of the
* starred activities. Adults only!!!!!
Global winds simulation
*
Video, Hot Air rises with flaming tea bag
*
HOME EXTRA CREDIT (with adult):
Video, Hot Air rises and spins a spiral
*
Video, Hot air rises, trashbag hot air balloon
*
HOME EXTRA CREDIT (with adult):
Video, Hot air rises and fills up a balloon
~a 5th grader's video from the above extra credit opportunity!!
Video, Air Pressure & the Atmosphere, StudyJams
Interactive: Coastal Winds and Clouds
Air Pressure & Atmospheric Layers
Image, Earth from Space
Video, Air Pressure can lift a stool by pressing so hard by itself to create a suction seal
Real Time Animation, Global Winds from different altitudes in Earth's atmosphere
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video, air pressure trick in a bottle
Video, Air Pressure tricks with Bill Nye
Video, Why is it hotter the higher you go, Bill Nye
Infographic, Atmospheres of other planets ("The Atmospheres of the Solar System")
Video, Balloon and Peeps in vacuum chamber
Video, Bag of chips at different altitudes
Video, Why blood would "boil" in space, start @ 1:26
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video, Build your own air pressure barometer
Diagram & Article, "Why do we feel pain in our ears on airplanes?"
Weather Fronts
Animation, Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts
Animation/Simulation, Cold and Warm fronts
Animation, Cold and Warm Fronts, Pearson
Animation, "Stationary Fronts Prolong Bad Weather"
Current & Past Weather Data and Maps
Current US Weather Map, Weather Channel
Current ANIMATED weather map, Intellicast
Variety of Current Weather Maps, Intellicast
Current and historic weather and climate data, Weather Underground
Weather Online Activities
Build a Weather Map
Weather Map and Related GAMES
Weather Lab, Smithsonian
More CLimate and Weather Interactives and Games (CIMSS)
Database of weather/atmosphere/climate games & interactives (ucar)
Water Cycle
Diagram, Transpiration
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video, Using transpiration to survive in an arid place
Weather Instruments
Video, “Arklay Richards C5 Anemometer in 230 mph wind”
Video, release of a weather balloon
Ocean's Affect Weather and Climate
Map, cartoon coastal map of Oregon
Map, cartoon coastal map of California
Relief & Precipitation map of California so you can see where the mountains and rainfall correlate
US Precipitation Map
Diagram to explain the uneven heating the Earth
Model, (NASA) Daily temperature rise and fall as we rotate toward the sun
Video & Diagram, (NASA) Ocean temperature map
Article, toys float across the world ocean surface currents
: "What can 28,000 rubber duckies lost at sea teach us about our oceans?"
Animated, Surface Current Map that reflects the uneven heating the Earth
Video, Surface current model "Perpetual Ocean"
Model, Deep Water Currents
Wind model at different altitudes above Earth
Video, & Diagram, Uneven heating of Earth's oceans affects ocean water density
Video & Diagram, Uneven heating of Earth's oceans afect salinity levels of oceans
Video, Making Waves: How the ocean moves (TED Ed)
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video, Salinity affects ocean current flow and depth
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video, Ocean Currents, Bill Nye the Science Guy
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Video, Layers of Ocean water activity
Summary Video: Waves and Currents, StudyJams
Astronomy: Earth, Sun, & Moon
AWESOME Astronomy Simulations for all Units:
Simulation Collection: Astronomy Edu. at the U. of Nebraska
Scale Models of the Universe
Size comparison of planets and different stars
Scale model to show the comparable size of EVERYTHING in the Universe
Interactive Scale Model of the Universe (Smithsonian)
You Are Out There, interactive
Orbit, Revolve, Rotate
Visualization, Earth Rotation
Visualization: Rotating Moon (NASA)
Visualization: Sun Rotating (NASA)
Orbit Paths: the world's satellites
Orbit Simulator for our Solar System
Visualization: Why the moon travels in both 27.3 and 29.5 days
Summary Video: Earth and Moon rotating & Revolving
Summary Visualization: Earth revolving and rotating through the months (seasons)
Summary video: Earth's Rotation and Revolution (Crash Course)
Video: Relative Gravity Explained, "Gravity Visualized" (Supplemental Only)
4 Seasons Game
Mass and Orbits
Problem Solving: What would happen if?
a planet/satellite had more mass?
a planet/satellite had less mass?
Images: Orbits and Inertia
Physical Features of the Moon & Sun
Video, Bill Nye and the Sun (:30-3:00; 9:00-9:45;14:50-15:45;17:08-19:00 min)
360 Degree Photos of Moon
Article, Moonquakes, NASA
Diagram, Layers of hte Moon, NASA
Video & Song: "I'm So Hot" (about the Sun) by Storybots
Space Games:
Games/Interactives for the Sun, etc.
Moon Facts
Living on the Moon?
Moon "Trash"
Inside of the Moon
Day & Night and Shadow Movement: Earth Rotates
Interactive Daylight Map
Simulation of what causes day and night
1
Simulation of what causes day and night 2
Video, Find North Without a Compass
Video, How to Find True North While Outiside
Simulation, Sundial
4 Seasons: Earth Orbits/Revolves & Tilts
Video, Bill Nye Explains the Seasons
Summary Visualization: Earth revolving and rotating through the months (seasons)
Video, Why Do We Have Different Seasons? (California Sciences)
Video, StudyJams Day & Night and the 4 Seasons
Infographic, explanation of the 4 seasons
Diagram, Winter and Summer
Diagram, the 4 seasons, 3D
Daylight Simulator
Interactive: Graphs amount of light available at different amount of direct or indirect sunlight
Planet Order and more
Video & Song: "Planet Song," by the Raging Idiots
Video & Song: "We are the Planets" by Storybots
Video & Song: "Planet Song/Dwarf Planets" by Kids Learning Tube
Online Game/Practice: Planet Order (markothepencil)
Moon Phases/Lunar Cycle
Look up the moon phase for any date
Moon calendar (stardate.org)
2017 Moon Calendar
Video, Bill Nye explains the moon phases
Video & Song: "Mr. Lee-Phases of the Moon" rap
Video & Song: Flocabulary Moon Phases
Simulation, Lunar Phases-U.of Lincoln-Nebraska
Simulation, Lunar Phases-FOSS
Simulation, Lunar Phases-McGraw Hill
Simulation, the shape of the Moon's Orbit
Eclipses
Animation, Solar Eclipse
Video, Total Solar Eclipse
Video, NASA Intro to Lunar Eclipses
Visualization, Lunar Eclipse
Video, Why do lunar eclipses happen and NOT full moons
Eclipse Calendar
Tide Patterns and the Moon
Images, High Tide versus Low Tide
Video, Waves on the beach
Video, TIme-lapse of low tide to high tide over 6 hours
Video, The Tides, MinutePhysics
Simulation, Tides
Simulation, Tides II
Visulatization, Tides on a Beach over hours
Time-Lapse Video, Bay of Fundy, highest tides on planet
Time-Lapse Video, Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Fundy
Health
Nutrition
Go Slow Whoa foods labeling "PPT" PDF
Go, Slow, Whoa food handouts
Video, Tiny Desk Kitchen: The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger, NPR
electoral-college-kids-discover.pdf
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2nd Semester
Landforms and general Geology
Will A Mountain Last Forever?
Weathering
Weathering and Erosion slides, PBS
How Ice Expands
Video, Underwater Turbulence of sediments and fish, SERC
Video, The art of tumbing and polishing (rock tumbler)
Visualization, Rock dissolving
Travis' website (geologic features of the western USA): Boulder County Wandering
National Parks Girl (geologic features of the national parks)
Erosion
Collection of Erosion and Deposition visualizations, Geo. Society of America
Visualizations, Soil Erosion
, Geo. Society of America
Visualization, Erosion to form a deeper waterfall and swimming hole
Sediment Transport Movies
River Erosion
Sediment Transport Movies
: Flash flood in Utah
Video, How a straight stream naturally starts to "meander"
Video, Stream table model of how a meandering stream changes
1
Aerial photo of meandering river about to form an oxbow lake
Photos of meandering rivers
Video, Stream table model of a meandering stream
changing 2
Video, Why Rivers Meander
, MinuteEarth
Video,
Little River Stream Table Timelapse
(with fun music)
Video, Giant Stream table erosion model, shows how rock layers can be revealed
Video, Magic School Bus "Rocks and Rolls" to show weathering while eroding & why river rocks get smooth
Wind Erosion
Visualization, Sand Erosion
Video clip of blowing sand on dunes
Video, Why is All Sand the Same?, Minute Earth
Videos, Dustbowl erosion
Other Erosion
Simulations, Glacial Erosion and Deposition
Photos, Glacial Erosion
Visualization, Erosion of a Sea Cliff
Claymation video, sea cliff erosion
Video, Delta formation from erosion model
Deposition
Visualization, Deposition in river or delta, up close
Simulations, Deposition, SERC
Video animation, weathering then deposition
Minerals
Google Images, Mexican caves with giant crystals
Google Images, Minerals
Rock Tumbler images
Image, Rock Tumbler rocks before and after
Solution Caves & Sink Holes
Caves
Image, Karst Limestone rock sample
Cave Formation Visualization
/Video (by dissolving)
Video, How caves form by dissolving
Video, Formation of Carlsbad Cavern
Visualization and Soundscape, caves and water dripping from cave ceiling
Inside of a cave photo panorama
Virtual Tour,
Sơn Đoòng
Cave, Vietnam, National Geographic
Virtual cave tour
Cave formation visualization (supplemental)
Video, Deposition of minerals to form stalactites and stalagmites
Beautiful Cave Crystals images
Google Images, Animals Adapted to Cave Life
Video, Biggest Cave in the World, National Geographic
Photos of the Inside of Caves, National Geographic "Your Shots"
Visualization of how various types of caves form
Mexican Cave Crystals, National Geographic Photo Gallery
Sink Holes
Visualization of the formation of a sinkhole
Interactive Visualization of a sinkhole forming
14 Amazing Sinkholes
(supplemental)
Aquifers
Images, Types of Aquifers, Google Images
Video, What is an aquifer?
How fast does groundwater move through an aquifer?
Video, Model of Edward's Aquifer
Glaciers
Glacier Videos
Panoramic Tour of a Glacier
States with Glaciers
Video, How glaciers form
Video, Summary of how glaciers form
, move, and weather the landscape
Video, How glaciers move and pick up sediments
Google Images, Glacier U-Shaped Valleys
Diagram, cross-section of a glacier
Photos, Abrasion of land by glaciers
Glacial movement animation
Glacier Simulator
Other Glacial Features
Video, BBC How Glaciers were formed, and ice age animals
Photo, Glacier calving to make an iceberg
Google Images, Icebergs
Image, iceberg versus Titatnic
Photo, Russian Icebreaker Ships
Video, "What's So Great About the Great Lakes?," TED Ed
Video, "14 Insane Glaciers You Won't Believe"
Retreating Glaciers, then and now
Interactive from NASA, Global Ice Viewer
"What the world would look like if all the ice melted," National Geographic
Video, Wierd things found inside of glaciers
Landform Formation
Delta
Video,
Little River Stream Table Timelapse
(with fun music)
Delta clips from UWYO's Sediment Transport Videos
Video, Why do rivers have deltas?, MinuteEarth
Video, How a delta is formed (using clay), start at 2:14
Mississippi River Drainage Basin, Google Search
Sand Dune
Sand Dune clips from UWYO's Sediment Transport Videos
Sand dune movement visualization
Video, Why all sand is the same, MinuteEarth
Video, BBC How to make a sand dune
Video, Two Ways to Make a (Beach) Dune, NPR
Canyon
Video, Aerial footage
Video, Geologic creation of the Grand Canyon
Slot Canyons in USA
Map of US Canyons of the Southwest
Sand Bar
Video, One way that sandbars are formed
Tectonics
Song, Layers of the Earth
Video, Demo of how convection works inside of the mantle
Flocabulary song, Layers of the Earth and Plate Tectonics
Tectonic Plate Boundaries, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Teacher's Domain
BBC Bitesize Tectonic Plates
Animation of continental drift, Pangea
Video, Earth 100 Million Years From Now
Video, Plate Tectonics, GeoDharma
Video, Bill Nye Plate Tectonics, Panagea scene
Visualization, Types of Plate Boundaries, Teacher's Domain
Photo, MidAtlantic Ridge Splitting Iceland, Teacher's Domain
Photo, Tectonic plate gap between Europe and America
Photo, Rock formation: Flysch in Northern Spain
Visualization, animation of what Earth will look like in the future
Pangea in 250 million + years
Plat Boundary Movememts
BBC Bitesize Plate Tectonics
Video, Summary of types of plate boundaries
"Life on Fire: Tectonic Volcanoes"
SEPUP Plate Motion Simulation
Simulation, Ocean crust forms along boundary
Simulation, Divergent boundary
Simulation, Convergent boundaries and metamorphic rocks
Image, Texas at time of convergent collision
Video, Plate Tectonics: Hawaiian Archipelago, Teacher's Domain
Video, when volcanoes go extinct demonstration
Animated overview how plates move "Earthquakes" (BBC)
Video, Plate Tectonics (Supplemental review video)
Video, Plate Tectonics (Minute Earth)
Video, How tsunamis work? (TedEd)
Video, Live footage of Japan tsunami
Video, Live aerial footage of 2004 Japan tsunami
Earth History
Video, Earth's History Plays Out on a Football Field, NPR Skunk Bear
Video, "Tribute to Earth Evolution, Part I"
Video, "Tribute to Earth Evolution, Part II"
Video, What Makes a Dinosaur? MinuteEarth
The Rock Cycle
BiteSize BBC Rocks and Weathering (rock minerals, layering, rock cycle, etc)
Video, The Lava Affair, NPR Skunk Bear
Song, Flocabulary: Rock Cycle
Visualization, Rock Cycle
Rock Cycle Simulation, Geological Society
PPT, Rock Cycle
Igneous Rock
Video, Lava (Igneous Rocks)
Video, What Happens When Lava Meets Ice?
Famous eruptions (bottom of article)
Photos, Google search of "igneous rocks"
Cross-sections of volcanoes
Visualization, Igneous Rock Formation 1
Animation, Igneous Rock Formation
Video, "Lava" Pixar short fim
Visualization, Hot Spot Volcanoes
Visualization, Hot spot volcanoes and the Hawaiian Islands
Video, Plate Tectonics: Hawaiian Archipelago, Teacher's Domain
Animations, Each type of volcano and how they erupt (geographeronline)
Interactive, Types of volcanoes and how they erupt (Class Zone)
Animated Volcano Guide (BBC) (Types of volcanoes and how they erupt)
Photos, Google Search Pompeii
Video, A Day in Pompeii (recreated CGI footage from the Melbourne Museum)
Interactive, Mt. Saint Helens: Before and After, Teacher's Domain
Video, Geyser eruption at Yellowstone
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock trns into a Metamorphic Rock, Visualization
Examples of Metamorphic changes to REAL rocks
More real rock morphing examples
Igneous to Metamorphic, Visualization II
Sedimentary Rock
Photos, Google image search of sedimentary rocks
Visualization, Sedimentary rock formation, Harcourt
Visualization, Cementing via mineral growth between sediments, McDougal
Visualization, Sedimentary Rock formation, deposition, compacting, cementing
Animation, How do stalactites and stalagmites form?
Rock Layers
Photos, Google image search of "rock layers"
Visualization, Types of Unconformity
Visualization, Types of Faults
Visualization, Example of an unconformity in the rock layers
Visualization, Rock layers change throughout geologic processes
Image, rock layers with intrusions
Photo, example of unconformity
Image, Example of unconformity
Photo, unconformity
What might the vertical "rock" in these rock layer be?
Diagram, fossils in rock layers
Fossils
Videos, BBC Fossils
("Mud Fossils" & "La Brea Death Trap")
What processes are bringing this fossil to the surface?
Video, How Fossils Form
Clips from Bill Nye Fossils, 3.10-6:40
Video clip, How amber can cover a mosquito (1993 Jurassic Park clip: "Mr. DNA")
Google Images, Petrified Forest
Soil
National Geographic Soil photos and facts imbedded in "quiz"
Diagram, Soil mineral leaching
Infographic, Soil and Biodiversity, UN
Infographic, Why soil MUST have organic matter, USDA
Infographic, Soil Erosion, UN
Infographic, Soil, USDA
Infographic, Soils are teh Foundation for Soil
Diagram, Soil horizons are different based on the environment whose organic and nonorganic material make up their soils
Infographic, Polluted Soil, World Watch Institute
Infographic, Understanding Soil is the first rule for a green thumb
Infographic, Living versus Dead Soils (scroll down till you see the infographic)
Soil Erosion
Video, Selena's Science Experiment, Soil Erosion
Video, Soil Conservation, Erosion (start around 1:00)
Infographic, Polluted Soil, World Watch Institute
Fossil Fuels
Online games: Natural Resources
Video, Renewable Energy (If Green Energy Is So Great, Why Are We Using?)
Video, Formation of Fossil Fuels
Video, Oil and Gas Formation
Animation of Coal and Petroleum/Crude Oil Formation
Infographic, Products made by Petroleum and how refinery distillation works to separate the crude oil into multiple products
Video, Will Fossil Fuels Run Out? (Earth Lab, BBC)
Video, When will we stop using oil? (PBS, skunkbear)
Facts about the use of energy across the US (eia.gov)
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels graph
Why Smog is Bad Infographic
Climate change (according to a kid)
Climate Time Machine, by NASA
NASA's Climate Kids, air report graph
NASA's Climate Kids, cartoons about climate change
2015 article about most buried fossil fuels are unusable
NASA's Climate Kids, where is the evidence?
Interactive from NASA, Global Ice Viewer
Video, Global Warming: It's all about Carbon, Episode 2 (NPR) (Carbon can be turned into lots of things)
Video, Global Warming: It's all about Carbon, Episode 3 (NPR) (Removing carbon for use)
Video, Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye
Video: Climate Science: What you need to know (PBS, Skunk bear)
Video, Global Warming: It's all about Carbon, Episide 4 (NPR) (Carbon likes to hang out with Oxygen to make carbon dioxide, and they absorb heat)
LA Times article about how climate change is already affecting us-"Wildfires, Sea Levels Rise, Coral Bleaching"
Video, Why People Don't Believe in Climate Science
Video, (10 minutes) The LAstTime the Climate Warmed (PBS)
.
Infographics:
How Climate Change is Endangering Animals
The Carbon Bathtub
Climate Change and Human Health
Global Impacts and Irreversible Impacts
Air Quality
Why Smog is Bad Infographic
Coal Does Not Turn into Diamonds
Video, How Diamonds Form
Infographic, How Diamonds Form
Alternative Energy Forms
Mechanical Energy
News Video, Tiles convert mechanical energy into electric energy
Video, A Bicycle-Powered House, NPR Skunk Bear
Inside of a hand crank light
Solar Energy
Diagram, How Solar Cells Work
Google Image Search, Solar Panel Field
Wind Energy
Diagram, Wind turbine size comparison
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine Farms
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine 18 Wheeler
Infographic, How Loud is a Wind Turbine?
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine Person
Google Image Search, Wind Turbine Cross Section
Interactive Infographic, How Wind Turbines Work
Infographic, Wind Energy in America
Generators
HOME EXTRA CREDIT & video referenced for Electric Generator Take-Home Project:
How to build a simple homemade electric generator, video
Bicycle wheel, wind, and generator make electricity, video
Diagram of a simple generator (scroll down)
Google Image Search, Coal Plant Electric Generator
Google Image Search, Hydroelectric Dam Generator
Google Image Search, Geothermal Power Plant Electric Generator
Interactive Infographic, How Wind Turbines Work
Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy in Iceland, video
Iceland geyser, video
Beehive geyser at Yellowstone National Park, video
Geyser animation
Diagram, How Geothermal Powerplants Work
Diagram, Inside a geothermal electric generator
How geothermal power plants work, video
"Renewable Energy 101: Geothermal Energy" video
Map of where geothermal energy is available in the USA
National Geographic, geothermal power in Indonesia
National Geographic, geothermal power in Costa Rica
National Geographic, geothermal power in Nicaragua
Biofuels
How it's Made: Turning Trash into Renewable Energy
Video, The Landfill and Using its Biomass to make electricity (waste and other ways to deal with it)
Sweden is importing trash to use a biofuel, video
Infographic, Trash-Based Biofuels
Diagram, Extracting methane from landfills to burn for electricity
All Alternative Energy Forms
"Mapping Every Power Plant in the US"
Infographic, Renewable Energy Usage
Earth Science Review
A
nimation of Coal and Petroleum/Crude Oil Formation
Visualization, Sedimentary rock formation, Harcourt
Visualization, Cementing via mineral growth between sediments, McDougal
Video, Nonrenewable Energy Resources/ GCSE Physics/ Doodle Science
Video, How to Literally Save Earth (MinuteEarth) SOIL
Video, NASA Soil
Click to Run
PhET simulation of how a generator works.
Ecosystems & Adaptations
Flocabulary: Photosynthesis
Brainpop: Photosynthesis
Video, last scene of Dr. Binoc Photosynthesis about Carbon cycle
Video, Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle, Supplemental/take it further
Visual, Biome, Ecosystem, Community, Population, Species
Biomes precipitation graph
Ecosystem/Biome videos
CBS Sunday Morning Nature Soundscapes Videos
Tundra
Tundra, video slideshow
(several species are wrong)
Tundra, PBS video
Tiaga/Boreal Forest
Soundscape, Taiga (Says "tundra" incorrectly)
Soundscape, Borreal Forest in Canada
Taiga/Boreal Forest, video
Deserts
Soundscape, Relaxing Planet Earth II Desert sounds
Desert types of deserts and their locations
"11 of the Most Beautiful Deserts in the World," pictures
Temperate/Deciduous Forest
Soundscape, forest stream
Video, How do Trees Survive Winter? MinuteEarth
Video, Why do Autumn leaves change colors?,
Instant Egghead #51, Scientific American
Desert animal adaptations
Video, Estivation to survive desert heat ("Estivation: How mucus saved my life")
Savannah
Soundscape, Relaxing Planet Earth II Grassland sounds
Savanna,
Planet Earth
, video
Video/SlideShow, Challenges of Grasslands
Adaptations of plants to fire
Rainforest
Soundscape, relaxing planet Earth II Rainforest sounds
Cold rainforest, southern Chile, video
video, Which came first, the rainforest or rain (minuteEarth)
General Ecosystem Adaptations
Extreme animal adaptations
"25 Animals With Insane Survival Adaptations"
SEARCH links to adaptations to different biomes:
Characteristics of all biomes
MORE Adaptations
, TEA
DESERT adaptations
PENGUIN adaptations to get water
TUNDRA adaptations
Taiga/Boreal Forest adaptations
Temperate/ Deciduous Forest adaptations
Grassland / Savannah / Prairie adaptations
RAINFOREST adaptations
Food Chains and Food Webs
Video, What Happens To Your Body After You Die (Egghead: Scientific American)
Video, Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain (TedEd)
Video, Exploding Sperm Whales
"Taylor Teaches: Blu Fin & Overfishing," video (till 1:13 mark)
Complex cod food web
"Ocean Alert: Overfishing," video
Overfishing explanation, video
Shark overfishing infographic about number killed per hour
Shark infographic about finning practice
Polar Cod's role in the Arctic ocmarine food web
World's marine life threatened wtih extinction
Everglades food web and disruption by invasive species
Top 10 Invasive Species in Texas, NPR
Ecosystems Change
Video, Quick video review of Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen cycle, and Carbon output
Traits and Behaviors & Adaptations
"Mousy Building Nest," video
Graphic, Animal Kingdom
Genetics
Video, How Medel's Pea Plant Helped Us Understand Genetics, TedEd
Video, What is DNA?, SRiddle8119
(until 2:11)
Video, Are Your Traits Dominant?
Video, Why Can't Mules Have Babies? MinuteEarth
Examples of Real Hybrids
Inherited Plant Traits
Video, 8 Vegetables You Can Buy Once and Then Grow Forever
Time-lapse of cucumber vine, video
Rafflesia flower adaptations, video (use rotting meat odor to attract pollinators)
Google images, Corpse Flower
(use rotting meat odor to attract pollinators)
Dragon's Blood Tree sap
Dragon's Blood Tree images
Welwitschia adaptations, video
Welwitschia images
A pitcher plant adapted to "eat" bat poop, article
"Bristlecone Pine Tree Ranger Minute," video about 4000 year old trees and how they survive!
Phototropism timelapse of radish seedlings, video
Video, Phototropism
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Phototropism maze with a Pea Plant, Smithsonian
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Instructions for making a shoebox phototropism maze
HOME EXTRA CREDIT:
Instructions for making a shoebox phototropism maze (II)
Video, Orchids: Masters of Lying, Cheating, & Stealing
Video, The Secret Social Life of Plants, MinuteEarth (or why plants are AWESOME!)
Traits, Natural Selection, Texas Gateway
SEARCH links for plant adaptation research activity:
Rain Forest plant adaptations
Adaptations of plants for interacting and sometimes USING fire to survive
Desert plant adaptation images
Inherited and Learned Animal Adaptations
Video, Bird Migrations ("Birds that Hibernate in Lakes?!), MinuteEarth
Video, Why don't scavengers get sick?, MinuteEarth
Video, Why Only Some Monkeys Have Tails, MinuteEarth
Video, Why did T-Rex have such tiny arms? MinuteEarth
(avoid 0:16-0:22)
Teaser link, Why the Mantis Shrimp is My New Favorite Animal by the Oatmeal
Video, World's Deadliest: Mantis Shrimp, National Geographic
"
Nature: Ocean Wonders, Encountering Sea Monsters, full video
" (about cuttlefish and octopi)
Camel Adaptations TED Talk: "You have no idea where camels really came from," video
Image of a cael foot, spread out to spread camel's weight across the ground
It's just fat inside of a camel hump, image
Bird beaks are adapted to different eating styles, image
"Why Woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches," article
Bird beak adaptations of finches, mini infographic
Sidewinder snake video
Video, Adapting to ones environment
Life Cycles
Plant Life Cycles & Pollination
Video, Who are flowers trying to seduce (pollination)
Time lapse of corn growth from kernel, video
Time lapse of radish growth from seed, video
Time lapse of a pear tree flower to fruit formation following pollination fo the flowers
Time lapse of cherry tree flower to cherries following flower pollination
How pine cones open in response to increased moisture in nature, video
Time lapse of rose growth from seed, video
Time lapse of oak tree acorn germination to sapling, video
Plant Life Cycles: Seed Dispersal OR Spreading By Other Strategies
Image, How seeds travel
Video, Exploding Seed Pods
Video, Wisteria exploding seed pods
Video, Spinning maple seeds
Google Image SEarch, Floating Coconut
Image, Plant spreads by rhizomes
Google image search, plants spreading with runners versus rhizomes
Insect Life Cycles: Complete Metamorphosis
Video, Time-lapse of lady bettle life cycle
Complete metamorphosis of a ladybug, video links
Video, Time-lapse of a mosquito life cycle
Video, time-lapse of a Cicada molting
Complete metamorphosis of a mosquito, video
Complete metamorphosis of a Monarch butterfly, video
Video, Butterfly larva/caterpillar molting as it grows bigger
Complete metamorphosis of a Darkling beetle/meal worm
Complete metamorphosis of a house fly, image
Molting mealworm, video
Video, What REALLY Happens when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly
Video, Life cycle of a hurculese beetle
Video, Incredible Moment When an Ant Larva becomes a pupa (and footage of other stages)
Video, National Geographic Bee life cycle
Video, Time lapse of silk moth life cycle
Insect Life Cycles: Incomplete Metamorphosis
Incomplete metamorphosis of a dragon fly, image
Video, Dragon fly molting
"I'm a beautiful butterfly" clip from
A Bug's Life
Amphibian Life Cycles
Diagram, Tiger Salamander life cycle
Info page, Salamander larva/mudpuppies
Google image search of giant salamanders in China
Diagram, Frog life cycle
Google image search of beautiful salamanders
Google image search of amazing toads
STAAR Review
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition & Landform Formation STAAR
Song & Video, Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
(students can label with words)
Time lapse, mud erosion
Collection of Erosion and Deposition visualizations, Geo. Society of America
"Stream Deposition patterns;"
(SOME SEDIMENTS TRAVEL FASTER THAN OTHERS: WHY?)
Video, Underwater sediment transport
(SOME SEDIMENTS TRAVEL FASTER THAN OTERS: WHY?)
Video, Sediments settle in a jar and how it relates to real life rock layers
(start @3:24)
Google Image Search : Smooth river rock erosion
Time lapse, Rock Tumbler
Sand Dune clips from UWYO's Sediment Transport Videos
Time lapse, beach erosion over 82 years
Silent animation, How Caves Form
Image, How canyons form
Image, GINORMOUS canyon on mars
Image, How glaciers form
Video, How glaciers move sediments
Image, How deltas form
Student Video, Sediments travel down rivers to make deltas
Sedimentary Rock & Fossil Fuel Formation, Alt. Energies and Nat. Resources
Visualization, Cementing via mineral growth between sediments, McDougal
Video, How sedimentary rock forms
Silent video, How sedimentary rocks form
Google image search, ocean fossils in limestone
Video, How Fossil Fuels Form
Image, Blue Lagoon, Iceland
Image, Space Chimp Lives
Video, Biomass 101
Video, Biofuels
Article with images, shows geothermal energy at a house, Pop. Mechanics
Video, Geothermal energy
Video, A guide to energy (TED Talk) Start @ 3:07 for Turbine use in alternative energy)
Interactive Infographic, How Wind Turbines Work
Energy STAAR
Light Refraction tricks 1
Light Refraction Tricks 2
Light Refraction trick 3
Animals see themselves in a mirror
Oven Mitts
Force STAAR
Texas Gateways: Judge an experiment
Video, Inertia, Beaker puppet, & traveling chair.
Start at 40 sec.
Inertia, Balloons, Car Video
Images: Orbits and Inertia
Cars and inertia
Simple Machine: Levers Ted Ed video
Astronomy STAAR
Video, What if the Earth Were Twice as Big?
Hamster Dance
Video, What if there were no jupiter?
Weather
Current US Weather Map, Weather Channel
Water Pollution:
Infographic, Trash from your yard to the Colorado river
Infographic, Debris in our Oceans (from storm drains to killing turtles)
Infographic, The Ugly Journey of our Trash (downriver to oceans)
Infographic, 25 Years of Debris Collected in the Oceans
Infographic, Microplastics in the Ocean
News clip, Henderson island
Adrift.org.au (tracking ocean trash & rubber ducks across the ocean, interactive)
Video, Trash Talk, Ocean Pollution (1:46-2:45ish)
Video, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Infographic, Pacific "islands" of trash
How does plastic impact wildlife?
Links For You To Explore By Your Self:
Infographic, Plastics in the Oceans (includes far-out view of ocean, river, gyre)
Infographic, Plastics Breakdown, One World One Ocean
Infographic, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Infogrpahic, How Long Does Garbage Last in the Oceans?
Infographic, Ocean microplastics, the food chain, and human health
Infographic, Top Ten Items Found in the Oceans
Google Image Search, "Ocean Plastics in Animals"
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Halloween
, NASA scientists and their high-tech pumpkins
Halloween
, history of Halloween presented by the Library of Congress
Halloween
, Steve Spangler's Oozing Pumpkins
Halloween
, Steve Spangler Halloween Tricks
Halloween
Tricks from Science Bob
Halloween
, The science behind common Halloween "tricks"
Ms. Neal's Site
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