Our Place in Our Galaxy
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students mentally construct a model of our place in the Milky Way Galaxy and the distribution of stars, with a quarter and some birdseed.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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1-Component Seismogram: Building Responds to P, S, Surface Waves
(View Complete Item Description)This animation illustrates how seismic waves travel through the earth to a single seismic station. Scale and movement of the seismic station are greatly exaggerated to depict the relative motion recorded by the seismogram as P, S, and surface waves arrive.
Material Type: Lesson
Seismic Waves
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn about seismic waves and forces inside the Earth.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
How Do We See?
(View Complete Item Description)This online module focuses on the sense of sight - the parts of the eye and how the eye receives light.
Material Type: Interactive
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Facilitator's Guide
(View Complete Item Description)This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." The teacher guide provides background content, information about misconceptions related to the topic, and explanations of demonstrations and activities. This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of light waves and color.
Material Type: Reading
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Poster
(View Complete Item Description)This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of light waves and color.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Question Handout
(View Complete Item Description)This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of light waves and color. The question handout provides a series of questions that can be used to assess students' understanding of the poster content.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Tutorial
(View Complete Item Description)This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of light waves and color. The tutorial provides the same illustrations and descriptions as the poster, in a virtual format.
Material Type: Presentation
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Question Poster
(View Complete Item Description)This is a supplemental support resource to be used with the poster "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." This resource poster provides illustrations and descriptions of light waves and color. The question poster provides a series of questions that can be used to assess students' understanding of the poster content.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Forming a Precipitate
(View Complete Item Description)Students will do a hand-on experiment to create a precipiate and analyze chemical equations to see that all atoms in the reactants end up in the products.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Balanced Budget Chemistry
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students use coins to model molecules and demonstrate how mass in conserved in a chemical reaction.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Changing Matter: Photosynthesis Reactions
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is an article discussing the processes of photysynthesis and respiration.
Material Type: Reading
The Oxygen Machine
(View Complete Item Description)Students review the basics of respiration (breathing) and learn about the importance of oxygen to the human body as the fuel that allows our cells to produce energy from the food we eat.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
What is a Calorie?
(View Complete Item Description)This video defines what a calorie is and how it is a measure of energy. The factors that go into determining the recommended amount for each person are also explained.
Material Type: Lesson
Marvelous Music Machine
(View Complete Item Description)This multimedia resource, part of the NC Science Now series, describes how an Asheville musician / inventor / entrepeneur has devloped a device that transforms how the acoustic guitar physically makes sounds. Called an acoustic synthesizer, it alters how the strings vibrate, adding nearly 100 new sounds to the instrument. Components of this resource include a video and a related blog article. Links to these components are provided on the page under the heading "UNC-TV Media."
Material Type: Lesson
Atoms Knowledge Check Background Activity
(View Complete Item Description)With this resource, students will use a knowledge check table to analyze their background knowledge about atoms.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Matter - Itsy Bitsy
(View Complete Item Description)With this resource, students will learn about the true size and structure of an atom. In groups of six, students will be assigned the role of either a proton, neuron or electron and demonstrate the position of these atomic particles in a helium atom.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
autotroph
(View Complete Item Description)This encyclopedia entry is for the term "autotroph." An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.
Material Type: Reference Material
The Science of Food and Fitness: Energy for Life
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students are introduced to the relationship between food and energy. Students will observe what happens when yeast, a single-celled fungus, is provided with food (table sugar).
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Science for Kids: The Atom
(View Complete Item Description)This brief article defines and describes the atom.
Material Type: Reading