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YouTube - Top 10 quirky science tricks for Christmas parties
Quick & fun tricks. Not too shabby.
Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool for Physics Education
Free tool to analyze video for Physics, math, or your own curious interests.
YouTube - makemagazine's MAKE Presents: Channel
Great series on various electrical components. Suitable for probably 5th grade & up. Informative & much better than any other vids on the topic that I've seen.
Cell Size and Scale
Amazing zoom-in interactive website that lets you zoom from coffee bean sized objects down to a single carbon atom. Very clean and nicely done.
Flickr Photo Download: 50 Years of Space Exploration
Amazing graphic from National Geographic detailing where missions to space have gone for the last 50 years. Turn this into a poster for realz.
Kepler Mission- NASA
Official page for the Kepler Mission searching for extra-solar planets. The mission is currently active.
YouTube - They Might Be Giants - Science is Real
Off TMBG's recently released "Here Comes Science." Describes science and scientific theories.
Flood Maps
Interactive maps that allow you to view what areas would be submerged by your selected height of sea level rise.
YouTube - Scientific Theories & Laws
Nice description of the difference between a scientific law and a scientific theory. Especially enlightening discussion of why theories /can't/ become laws.
Eureka Science Videos- YouTube
Classic animations describing various scientific principles such as acceleration, temperature, friction, etc.
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
Videos showing properties & such of all the elements (at least eventually).
Unit Plan: Teaching the Nature of Science
Some "Nature of Science" activities. Worth a look (prolly not worth a unit).
THIRST presentation
A nice presentation on the water crisis. Nice design & use of text and images.
Periodic Table of Videos - YouTube
People from Nottingham put together these videos of elements. Eventually they plan to have one for each element in the periodic table.
Hydrogen Atom Scale Model
A scale model of a hydrogen atom where the electron is made as big as 1 pixel. Does a great job of showing how much empty space matter is really made up of.
How Much Halloween Candy Can You Get in a Pillowcase?
Research for a sweet cause.
Seed: The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds
A typographic history of the earth. Good visualization of how recently life developed.
Twitter / WillyB
High school science teacher. Currently teaching 9th grade Integrated Science in Connecticut.
Cassiopeia Project
Free HD science videos available for download, remixing, or reuse. Looks like good stuff. Will have to spend some time going through these.
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