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NEW Student Lab Activities |
Updates / Frontiers |
Video |
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Why Study Science? |
Little Ol’ Earth (5)
Weird Pasta (7)
What Good Is It? (8)
It’s Just a Pencil (10)
Why Measure? (13)
Get It Together (17)
Have You Seen It? (20) |
The Burning Candle (11)
The Disappearing Sugar Cube (12)
Barefoot Rulers (14)
Books and Marbles (15)
Meters, Meters Everywhere (16)
Making a Graph (18)
Footwear Faire (19)
MicroWorlds (20)
“Heads Up” (R15) |
AIMS Blow Up $ |
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DE How Scientists Work: What Is the Scientific Method?
DE Scientific Method and Measurement
DE How to Use a Microscope |
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Physical Geography |
Shape It Up! (27)
How Much Do You Know? (28)
Hold It! (31)
Just a Big Cupcake (34)
Point to It (37)
Where Am I? (39) |
A Bulging Middle (29)
Seasons Model (33)
The Great Mineral Search (41)
The Coriolis Effect (R39) |
Ding Dong Earth
The Shadow Knows
CG E24 Molded Minerals $
CG F27 Apple Earth $
CG G21 Marvelous Mapping $ |
Running on Garbage |
DE A Spin Around the Solar System
DE Seasons
DE What's Inside the Earth?
DE Exploring Gravity |
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The Moving Crust |
Floating Crust (47)
The Puzzling Earth (48)
The Great Spread (50)
Mountains and Valleys (52)
Is It True? (57) |
It Fits (49)
Where Does It Go? (56)
Ups and Downs (R67) |
Tectonic Snacks
Seafloor Spread
AIMS Drifting Apart $ |
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DE Continents Adrift: |
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes |
Boom! (63)
Volcano Video (64)
Shake Down (68)
Wherezit? (72) |
Locating Volcanoes (67)
And the Winner Is . . . (74)
Locating Earthquakes (76)
Plotting Earthquakes (R87) |
CG F22 Porous Pumice $ |
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DE Earth Science: Volcanoes
DE Natural Phenomena and Other Earth Movements |
EB Tsunami diagram
GO Tsunami |
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Weathering |
Concrete Block (83)
Chalk Dust (84)
Rusty Wool (87)
Dirt (90) |
Ice at Work (86)
Rock Eater (89)
It’s a Dirty Job (R105) |
AIMS Agent Erosion $
AIMS Settling on Sediments $ |
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DE Basics of Geology: Erosion and Weathering |
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Erosion |
WHEREDITGO? (99)
Settle It (100)
Wind or Gravity (103)
Sanding Glaciers (106)
When Did It Happen? (110) |
Gone with the Wind (105)
Slow Motion (109)
River Erosion (R127) |
River Cutters #1
CG E21 Miniature Glacier $
CG F25 Tubular Glaciers $ |
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DE Weathering and Erosion |
EB Ice age: North American ice sheets |
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The Flood |
WHADOYANO? (117)
Who’s Right? (118)
Old Bones (121)
The Way It Was (126) |
WHATZIT? (118)
Model Rocks (125)
Making Fossils (R143) |
Stories in Stone |
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Minerals and Rocks |
Heavenly Rocks (133)
Elements or Minerals (134)
Testing, Testing (137)
Man-made Rock (141)
What Type Is It? (143)
Changes (145) |
Hey! This Is Salty (136)
Crayon Rocks (147)
WHAT-M-I? (R163) |
CG E25 Gullible Gold $
How Hard Is This?
Rock Candy
Rock Cycle
Sands of Time |
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DE Rocks: The Solid Earth Materials #2
DE All about Rocks and Minerals |
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Lab Activities |
NEW Student Lab Activities |
Updates / Frontiers |
Video |
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9
The Body’s Organization |
Some Great Design
People Maps (157)
Tissues (158)
Car Systems (161) |
Things in a Wing (160)
How Many Can You Name? (161)
Growing Eggs (R183) |
Cell in a Bag |
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DE Life Human Biology
DE How Living Things Are Structured |
GO 4 types of tissue |
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The Skeletal/
Muscular System |
Skeletons (171)
Locating the Skeleton (172)
Joints (174)
Bone Characteristics (176)
How Muscles Work (178) |
What a Joint! (175)
Are Ya Git’n Tired Yet? (180)
Blinking (181)
Bones (R203) |
AIMS Boning Up on Structure $ |
The $10-Million-Dollar Man |
DE The Skeletal and Muscular Systems |
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The Nervous System |
The Body’s Communication (187)
How Nerves Work (188)
Pass It Along (191)
Drop It! (193)
Alcohol and the Nervous System (197)
Thinking (199) |
Faster, Faster (190)
Oops! (195)
If I Could Only Remember (201)
Hey, Where Does This Go? (R223) |
Model It – NEURON |
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DE The Nervous System
DE Understanding the Amazing Brain |
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The Sense Organs |
The Senses (207)
Which Eye? (208)
Eye Care (212)
Can You Hear It? (214)
What’s That Taste? (218)
Feather-light Touch (220) |
Now You See It; Now You Don’t (208)
Don’t Drop It! (211)
Hey, Where Am I? (217)
Feelings, Nothin’ More Than Feelings (R243) |
CG E8 Hollow Hand $
CG F9 Cardboard Camera $ |
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DE The Five Senses DE The Structure and Function of the Eye
DE Sound |
EB Human Eye |
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The Integumentary
System |
It’s Only Skin Deep (227)
Outer Coverings (228)
How Much Hair? (231)
Cloggers and Cleaners (233)
What a Burn! (234)
Waste Removal (235) |
Brown Apples (229)
Can You Feel It? (230)
Where’s the Hair? (232)
Bad Breath? (235)
No Sweat (R265) |
Uniquely You
Watching My Fingernails Grow! |
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DE Organ Systems Working Together |
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The Circulatory System |
Circulation (243)
OK, Now Where Do I Go? (244)
Blood Is Thicker Than Water (250)
Tight Squeeze (253)
Hey! I Need Some Protection (255) |
Jump ‘n Matchsticks! (249)
Are You the Right Type? (252)
Salt Survey (254)
Have Some Heart (R285) |
Life in a Blood Vessel
Pump It Up
CG G6 Beads of Blood $ |
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DE The Heart and Circulatory System |
GO Immune system
GO AIDS virus
EB T cells contaminated by AIDS virus |
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The Respiratory System |
Pump It Up (263)
Lung Exhaust (264)
Move It Out! (266)
Soak It Up (270) |
Hold It! (265)
Watch Out! It’s Gonna Pop! (272)
Blow Out (273)
Put It Out (R305) |
Smoking Aerobics |
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DE The Respiratory System |
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Digestion |
Would You Eat Wood? (283)
Super Tube (284)
“STEP 1” (286)
Break It #1 (289)
Break It #2 (291)
The Large Intestine (294)
Tiny Droplets (296) |
How Sweet It Is (287)
Sugar Cube (287)
OK, Break It Up (288)
Food Mover (293)
Frog Dissection (R329) |
How Much Can You Eat?
AIMS By Golly, By Gum $ |
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DE The Digestive System |
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NEW Student Lab Activities |
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Video |
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Nutrition |
What Does It Take? (305)
WHACHYNO? (306)
Classify It (310)
Follow the Directions (315)
What Is It? (318)
Stuffed Animals (320)
Calories (322)
How Many? (324) |
Vitamin C (309)
Identifying Fat in Food (314)
Whazinit? (319)
Good For You? (R355) |
CG G4 Starch Search
AIMS Blue-Ribbon Lunch $
AIMS Fat-Finding Mission $ |
U – Food Pyramid |
DE Nutrition Labels: Our Guides to Healthy Eating
DE Managing Your Health: Weight Control |
EB Food Guide Pyramid
GO Vegetarian food pyramid
GO Anorexia |
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Drugs |
Two-edged Sword (331)
OTCs (332)
Why? Why? Why? (335)
Drugged (338)
Glamour Galore (341) |
Aspirin (334)
Why Smoke? ((336)
Magazine Advertising (337)
Daphnia on Drugs (R377) |
Impaired |
Have You Lost Your Mind? |
DE Steroids: The Hormonal Timebomb
DE Inhalants for Middle Schools
DE The Trouble with Tobacco |
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Safety |
Safety First (349)
Help! I’m Falling (350)
Help! I Can’t Breathe (353)
Which Is Poison? (355)
Egg Drop (358)
Survival (362) |
Paper Accidents (350)
Mapping Accidents (352)
Danger! Poison! (357)
Where Do They Occur? (363)
It Ain’t Safe Out There! (R403) |
SpongeBob™ Safety |
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DE Flash to Bang (Lightning)
DE Severe Weather Safety: Watch for the Warning |
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First Aid |
WHAZITFOR? (373)
WHACHYNO? (374)
Heimlich Maneuver (378)
What’s In My Eye? (382)
2 HOT/2 COLD (386) |
WHATCHUGOT? (377)
Shock: What Do You Do? (380)
Wrap It Up (385)
KATZNDOGZ (R425) |
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U – Updated CPR Techniques |
DE Safety and First Aid
DE First Response: Head, Spinal and Bone Injuries |
GO Heimlich maneuver on oneself |
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Exploring Electricity |
Effect of Electricity on a Compass (395)
Jumping Sawdust (397)
Balloons (398)
DC/AC Current (403)
Electrical Wire (405)
Voltage and Light Bulb Brightness (407)
Cells and Batteries (409)
Circuits (412) |
Salt and Pepper (402)
Insulators/Conductors (406)
Making Circuits (415)
WILITLITE (417)
Series/Parallel Circuits (451) |
Don’t Give Me Static |
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DE Getting to Know Electricity |
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Making and Using Electricity |
Steam Energy (423)
Making Electricity (424)
Measuring Electricity (429)
Electronics Changes Life (431)
Computers (433)
Electric Hazards (436) |
Lemon Power (427)
Meter Reading (430)
Human Brain vs Calculator (435)
Wind Power (R475) |
CG G32 Circuit Tester $
CG H32 Circuit Tester $ |
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DE Measuring and Using Electricity |
EB Small integrated circuit |
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Magnetism |
Floating Magnets (443)
Magnetic Field (444)
Temporary Magnets (447)
Electromagnets (451)
Motors and Generators (453)
Auroras (456) |
Compass Needle in Styrofoam (446)
Magnetic Domains (448)
How Strong Is It? (450)
Electromagnet (R495) |
CG E31 Cork Compass $ |
Can You Make This Easier? |
DE Understanding Magnetism |
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