Science

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[|Curriculum Units and Lesson Plans] from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Chemistry:

 * Tom Lehrer [|Elements Song]

Online [|Clips]:
> > Attract numerous bird species to your backyard by adding elements to your backyard wildlife habitat. > The Department of Natural Resources Wild Acres Program can help you plan your backyard wildlife habitat. > Alba Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company based in Baltimore. They recently moved to the region to work with the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Alba has raised $30 million in a Series A financing and has completed the first human trial for a drug to treat Celiac Disease. According to the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research, one out of every 133 Americans suffers from celiac disease. People with Celiac Disease have an autoimmune reaction to Wheat, Rye, Barley and Oats. Currently there is no cure for Celiac Disease and the only treatment is to stay on a Gluten Free diet. Dr. Paterson joins us from their new labs in Baltimore to discuss the status of their clinical trials, and also talk about the business of working with a university. > Attracting butterflies to your backyard is simple when the right elements are added. > Canada geese return to the fields along the Chesapeake Bay to feed in the fall. Winter forage for geese is provided on private lands by Eastern Shore farmers with the help of state funding. > Outdoors Maryland weaves the stories of Marylanders who struggle with constant change in "the natural order" as the state's resources are pressured by an ever-increasing growth in population. > As spring approaches, the Stoyer family prepares for the sap gathering process, a family tradition that has been theirs for generations. The Stoyers are one in only 16 licensed maple syrup producers in Maryland. These dairy farmers use the profits from their maple syrup to help pay for feed for their cattle. > Integrating messaging has become a vital part of conducting any business. From getting email on the run to communicating directly with employees and clients, the job of keeping communication flowing is growing more complicated as technology increases
 * [|A Pad for Frogs]Learn simple steps to build a frog pond in your backyard. ||
 * [|Backyard Wildlife Habitat] Creating a backyard wildlife habitat is a small step people can take to help species displaced by development.
 * [|Branching Out]
 * [|Call of the Wild]
 * [|Developing a Treatment for Celiac Disease]
 * [|Gardening for Butterflies]
 * [|Journey of the Longnecks]
 * [|Kiss the Fish]
 * [|Tapping the Mountain Sap]
 * [|What Can Your Messaging Technology Do for You?]

Science Experiments [|Tutorials How-Tos]:
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 * [|Expand Ivory Soap]
 * [|Make Multi Colored Carnations]
 * [|Make a Cloud in a Bottle]
 * [|Make a Naked Egg]
 * [|Make a Simple Weather Barometer]
 * [|Make a Soda Bottle Volcano]
 * [|Make an Egg Go Through a Bottle]
 * [|Squeeze an Egg Without Breaking It]
 * [|Balance Chemical Equations Using FunBasedLearning.com]
 * [|Build 3D Models of Animal and Plant Cells]
 * [|Change the Color of a Celery Stalk]
 * [|Create a Battery from a Lemon]
 * [|Create a Rainbow]
 * [|Explain Photosynthesis]
 * [|Find a Snail]
 * [|Get Kids Interested in Science by Crushing a Can With Air Pressure]
 * [|Get a Hard Boiled Egg out of a Bottle]
 * [|Grow Crystals]
 * [|Make "Plastic" out of Milk]
 * [|Make Exploding Paste]
 * [|Make Fog in a Bottle]
 * [|Make Ice Cream With Snow]
 * [|Make a Baking Soda and Vinegar Rocket]
 * [|Make a Cartesian Diver with a Ketchup Packet]
 * [|Make a Crystal Garden]
 * [|Make a Substance That Alternates Between Solid and Liquid]
 * [|Make a Water Rocket]
 * [|Make a Waterbottle Cap Pop off With Air Pressure]
 * [|Make a Waterscope]
 * [|Make an Alka Seltzer Bomb]
 * [|Start a Fire Using Carrots]
 * [|Test Insect Responses to Color]
 * [|Find the Age of a Cut Down Tree (for Younger Kids)]
 * [|Make 2 Different Kinds of Volcanoes]
 * [|Make a Plastic Bag Explode!]
 * [|Make a Tornado in a Bottle]
 * [|React the Disaster of Pompay]

Science [|Tutorials and How-Tos]:

 * [|Calculate Center of Gravity]
 * [|Calculate the Distance from Lightning]
 * [|Make a Lava Lamp with Household Ingredients]
 * [|Measure the Height of a Tree]
 * [|Assess Statistical Significance]
 * [|Build a Potato Launcher]
 * [|Calculate Escape Velocity]
 * [|Calculate Stability of a Model Rocket]
 * [|Calculate Your Power and Horse Power]
 * [|Choose the Right Telescope]
 * [|Conduct Scientific Research]
 * [|Conduct a True Experiment]
 * [|Construct an Electromagnetic Linear Accelerator (Linear Homopolar) or Rail Gun]
 * [|Create a Control Chart]
 * [|Defend Evolution Against Creationism]
 * [|Do Temperature Conversions Easily!]
 * [|Estimate Celsius Temperatures in Fahrenheit]
 * [|Find the Number of Neutrons in an Atom]
 * [|Help Prevent Damage to Our Oceans]
 * [|Light a Bunsen Burner]
 * [|Make Arrow and Spearheads out of Slate]
 * [|Make Copper Sulphate]
 * [|Make Oxygen and Hydrogen from Water Using Electrolysis]
 * [|Make Sodium from Salt]
 * [|Make a Clinometer]
 * [|Make a Vitamin C Indicator]
 * [|Make a Water Still]
 * [|Make the Sky in a Room]
 * [|Name a Hydrocarbon Chain Using the IUPAC Method]
 * [|Perform Young's Double Slit Experiment]
 * [|Quickly Convert Temperature from Centigrade to Fahrenheit]
 * [|Quickly Convert Temperature from Fahrenheit to Centigrade]
 * [|Re Create the Hindenburg Explosion (on a Tiny Scale)]
 * [|Recognize the Name of an Atom]
 * [|Remember the Order of the 9 Planets in Our Solar System]
 * [|See How Big the Universe Is]
 * [|Survive and Thrive in Your First Organic Chemistry Class]
 * [|Tell the Difference Between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes]
 * [|Understand Classical Physics]
 * [|Use a Punnett Square to Do a Monohybrid Cross]
 * [|Write a Hypothesis]
 * [|Write an Electron Configuration for an Atom of Any Element]
 * [|Build a Steam Power Model]
 * [|Compute an Earth Moon Spacecraft Trajectory]
 * [|Create Zero Gravity on Earth]

Space:
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 * [|Space Adventures]

Weather:

 * [|National Hurricane Survival Test]
 * [|Weather Underground]

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