Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Gravity

1. NatureShift!: linking learning to life
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028270
   This web site, produced by the North Dakota Science Center, contains hands-on, problem-based activities, which are aligned with the NSES and National Social Studies Standards. The site helps children learn about concepts within science and technology, as well as about North Dakota history and geography.
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2. Field map: a multidisciplinary exploration of nature
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029511
   This Internet site contains guides for five projects that engage students in biology, chemistry, physics, geology, and meteorology. While completing these projects, students gather data on the type of rocks, species of trees, and direction of the prevailing winds in their area.
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3. Reeko's mad scientist lab
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025809
   This Internet site provides simple chemistry and physics experiments for students to perform with adults. The site features Reeko, the Mad Scientist, as the narrator who encourages student learning through his comical writing and interesting experiments.
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4. Aspire
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018954
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 6 to 12 by the University of Utah's Department of Physics, contains web based, interactive lessons that allow students to explore physics topics. The interactive labs consist of general physics and astrophysics labs.
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5. Science fun with airplanes
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016348
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 6 to 12 by the Extension 4H Specialists in the Ohio State University, provides self guided lessons to help students learn about the principles of flight and why planes fly the way they do. These lessons are taken from the book, titled Science of Flight 4H Project Book, which provides over 20 hands-on experiments.
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6. Roller coaster physics
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011780
   This World Wide Web (WWW), maintained by physics teacher Tony Wayne, demonstrates the educational value in attending an amusement park for the purpose of doing lab work by showing how teachers can incorporate the the principles of roller coaster design into the curriculum. The site assumes some rudimentary knowledge of physical science and provides a simplified view of what design considerations and science a mechanical design engineer must know when designing a roller coaster.
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7. Bad science
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1995 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004086
   This purpose of this Internet resource, developed for secondary school students and their teachers, is to sensitize teachers and students to examples of scientific concepts that are commonly mistaught in schools, universities, and offered in popular articles and even textbooks. The home page explains what is meant by bad science and provides pointers to specialized pages on bad science within various disciplines, such as Bad Meteorology, Bad Chemistry, and Bad Physics.
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8. WaterWorks
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 001896
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is an introduction to the physics of water and the mechanics of moving liquids. The goal of this resource is to help teachers do more inquiry with students in the classroom.
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9. Kinetic City, mission to Vearth: join the battle to save the universe!
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): 2 - 7 Cost: Free ENC#: 009984
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 2 to 7 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), invites children to an adventure with the Kinetic City Super Crew, a team of six inquisitive kids and one talkative supercomputer, who travel the world on a high tech train to solve science mysteries and help friends in need. The site aims to capture the imaginations of children, while they fight the Deep Delete virus that attacks the virtual earth.
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10. Tidal patterns from Monterey Bay, 24 hours
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 101347
    How does gravity produce tides in the oceans? This student instructional worksheet, part of an interactive laboratory series for grades 8-12, introduces students to a tidal activity. Students collect tidal data over both a 24-hour period and a 29-day period.
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11. NASA CONNECT: the program that connects you to math, science, technology, and NASA
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 029820
    This Internet site describes a program called NASA CONNECT, a TV broadcast series that airs on local television stations around the United States on Thursday mornings. Videotapes of the 30-minute episodes can be obtained through the site.
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12. The International Space Station: a unique resource for learning
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028429
    This web site, developed by NASA, contains downloadable print materials and descriptions of audiovisual products for grades preK-12 about the design, construction, and operation of the International Space Station (ISS). The Educator Guides are booklets containing lesson plans on space station topics.
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13. Tides and gravity labs
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 101346
    How does gravity cause tides in the oceans? This section, part of an interactive laboratory series for grades 8-12, introduces students to four activities on tides and gravity that cover critical orbital speed between Earth and the moon, gravitational forces between two bodies, tidal effects from the sun and moon, and the change in tidal levels over time. The activities include hands-on animations of concepts whose variables can be manipulated by students.
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14. Wireless drop tower for microgravity demonstrations
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028851
    This Internet site, designed by NASA Spacelink, is a teacher's guide for grades 9-12 for using a wireless drop tower to demonstrate the effects of microgravity. The guide provides instructions to build and use a wireless drop tower and payload compartment.
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15. Exploring gravity
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029718
    This Internet site contains short readings and sample problems on topics related to gravity. Articles and pictures of early physicists such as Galileo and Tycho Brahe tell how scientists before Sir Isaac Newton's time contributed to early studies of this new, inconceivable force.
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16. Astronomy lessons
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 1 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017472
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 1 to 12 by the Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition, contains astronomy lessons and activities. The Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition provides a clearinghouse of lessons that can be done at home or in a classroom.
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17. The anatomy of black holes: an information and activity booklet, grades 9-12
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016883
    This electronic document, designed for grades 9 to 12 as part of NASA's IMAGINE THE UNIVERSE sites, provides an activity booklet that is designed to engage and excite students about the topic of black holes. This booklet, along with its matching poster, is designed to be used in conjunction with the Imagine the Universe Web site.
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18. Science Court hands-on activities
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 017990
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 8, is an online version of the same titled CD-ROM series, SCIENCE COURT, that uses animated courtroom drama, hands-on science activities, and humor to teach students fundamental science concepts and model scientific practice. Each program in the series involves students in an animated courtroom drama that focuses on a basic science concept such as the water cycle, gravity, and sound.
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19. C3P: Comprehensive Conceptual Curriculum for Physics
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 009507
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, which is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and suitable for students in grades 9 to 12, is a curriculum project designed to implement research from physics courses. The site supplies the complete curriculum of activites and teacher notes downloadable as a pdf file.
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20. 21st century problem solving
    Date: 1994 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004058
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is directed to students, teachers, administrators, and other professionals interested in problem solving. This site is dedicated to promoting problem solving literacy and covers problems related to algebra, physics, and chemistry.
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