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- Abstract: provides online field trips, information about ocean phenomena (such as phytoplankton, carbon, and reefs), remote sensing tools for monitoring ocean changes, and more. This website is based on NASA research and satellite missions focused on global ocean science.
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Science and Technology
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Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: invites students and teachers to start robotics teams, botball teams, and enter robotics competitions. Take online courses in robotics. Follow along with scientists who are developing technologies to drill for life on Mars. Find lessons for teaching robotics and related topics.
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Science and Technology
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Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: is a series of free instructional programs consisting of a broadcast, print, and online elements. Emphasizing standards-based instruction, and Problem-Based Learning, the series motivates students in grades 3-5 to become critical thinkers and problem solvers.
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Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: presents new lessons each week?including articles, learning activities, and background information for teachers and students?on topics related to space. Airport efficiency, motion sickness, housekeeping in space, the international space station, prevention of human error, seeing what can't be seen, asteroids, and use of light to speed recovery from illnesses are among the more than 30 topics. Lessons and materials support national education standards.
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Science and Technology
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Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: features the work of a federal agency that has helped keep U.S. technology at the leading edge. Visit the online exhibits to learn about the standardization of women's clothing, weights and measures (crucial to industrialization), technology development during World War II, the first government computer with an internal program, the fall of parity, OCR machines, weathering of stone, Jacob Rabinow, and more.
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Science and Technology
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Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: provides information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- how they were established, how they're managed, their scientific and educational programs, and events that occur in them throughout the year. Within the 13 sites are a range of creatures, habitats, historical artifacts, and flourishing maritime cultures.
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Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: allows students to explore a seafloor observatory geographically or by topic. Learn about seafloor animals, hydrothermal vents, mid-ocean ridges, axial volcano, lava flow, and technology and tools. Operate (remotely) a vehicle that takes you to the seafloor near an active submarine volcano. Explore black smoker vents, new lava flows, and unusual life forms.
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Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: Studies interactions between submarine volcanic activity and seafloor hotsprings, offers a unit called The Case of the Missing Rumbleometer. High school and middle school students learn about locating the epicenter of an earthquake, calculating the distance to the epicenter from hydrophones (underwater microphones), identifying evidence of a lava eruption, detecting a hydrothermal vent, estimating the age of lava based on animal species in the area, and more.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
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- Abstract: provides information, tools, and services for timekeeping and frequency measurement. Visitors can download time-setting software for their computer, read about how time is synchronized at radio stations across the country, and monitor the performance of the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.
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Science and Technology
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Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: offers more than 250 memoirs, autobiographies, and narratives from individuals who were slaves. An African king who was sold into slavery, the dress maker for Mary Todd Lincoln, the servant of Robert E. Lee during the Civil War, and the nurse of George Washington are included, as are stories of Sojourner Truth, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, and others. These firsthand accounts describe the conditions and sufferings of slaves and a number of escapes to freedom.
- Subject:
Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: allows students to learn about oil spills and hazardous chemical accidents through experiments that can be done at home, in the classroom, or for a science project.
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Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: provides 165 lesson plans developed to bring entire classrooms on board for exploration and discovery. Topics include deep-sea hydrothermal vents and their spectacular animal communities, benthic creatures of the Northern Gulf of Mexico (one of Earth's most geologically complex regions), seafloor methane, unexplored deep reef habitats off the Carolinas, the Titanic, and the mystery of the Steamship Portland (lost in a 1898 storm off New England).
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Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: offers activities for learning about oceans, oceanography, earth science, and related topics. This is the education website of a partnership between the U.S. and France to monitor global ocean circulation, discover ties between the oceans and atmosphere, and improve global climate predictions.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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free.ed.gov
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- Abstract: features free educational materials and outreach programs at the NIH, a video and slide program of speakers discussing Hollywood movies that have a medical science theme, original stories about medical research in the news, profiles of people in a variety of science-related careers, and articles that explain how various achievements in science happened.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: This site helps students discover the science in their daily lives. It is organized around four events: How Tall Am I? (Grades 2-3), the Marble Roll (Grades 4-8), Catching Sunshine, and the Chocolate Melt. The site makes it easy for teachers to incorporate the events into instruction, align learning with academic standards, and get students investigating their world in ways that are fun and instructive. Each event produces class data and includes questions for exploring student-generated data.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary
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- Abstract: provides videos from workshops on teaching about the Holocaust. Videos include historical photos and text.
- Subject:
Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: The Papers of Jefferson Davis, a documentary editing project based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is publishing a multi-volume edition of his letters and speeches, several of which can be found on this web site. The site also provides extensive information on Davis and his family and numerous images.
- Subject:
Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: is a detailed account of the December 7, 1941, attack. More than 100 photos and descriptions look at the 7 U.S. battleships moored along Battleship Row that morning, attacks off Ford Island, attacks in the Navy yard area, attacks on airfields, Japanese aircraft and midget submarines used in the attacks, aerial combat, and more.
- Subject:
Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
- Collection:
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- Abstract: Physics to Go publishes a biweekly online magazine with archives containing more than 55 selected physics images.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
- Collection:
free.ed.gov
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- Abstract: is devoted to the search for new worlds. This search is being conducted over the next 15 years through a series of NASA missions using the most sensitive instruments ever made. Learn how scientists discover planets and determine whether a planet is habitable. Search the atlas of planets to see what planets have been discovered thus far (102) or tour the multimedia gallery. Resources for teachers and learning activities for students are provided.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
- Collection:
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