"This web-resource, which is aimed at UK science students, shows how surface and deep Earth processes produce the rocks we stand on, and use to build our homes."

This site is great for lesson plans, worksheets, and lab activities for junior high science.

This peer reviewed article studies whether or not people who are diagnosed with cancer ussually die from cancer or from other causes.

This peer reviewed article studies the relationship between women who have a history of migraine headaches in relation to developing preeclampsia or gestrational hypertension during pregnancy. The study included 172 women with preeclampsia and 254 with gestrational hypertension. The control included 505 women with no history of hypertension before pregnancy. The study concluded that women who had a history of migraines may be at a higher risk for developing hypertension during pregnancy.

This site has fully developed activities, handouts, and even a test covering sunrise and sunset direction, moon face, phases of the moon, eclipses, and seasonal changes.

Descriptions of the major biomes

A lab meant more for High School (and college) students. Involves working with a scientist mentor to help determine which environment harbors the most antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Would be fantastic for a Linked Learning activity to help connect Industry to the classroom.

This is a lab that involves creating custom "Lava Lites." There is also some background information on Lava lites as well. Suitable for the middle school age group.

Lesson Plans Inc. is a high school science education resource. Science curriculums for middle school & elementary school science teachers are also included. Lesson Plans Inc. offers life & physical science teachers curriculum that is aligned to state & national standards. With different learning styles as our focus, our educational curriculums optimizes the learning aptitudes of science students. Student centered lesson plans create a fun learning environment for science classes!

A collection of biology worksheets and other helpful teaching materials authored or compiled by Cheryl Massengale.

This animation displays one year of Outgoing Long-wave Radiation (OLR) Terra-CERES data (March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001) with a 14-day boxcar average. Endpoints have the average re-weighted for the smaller amount of data. The data are 2.5 degree resolution.

This animation displays one year of Reflected Solar Radiation (RSR) Terra-CERES data (March 1, 2000 to May 25, 2001) with a 14-day boxcar average. Endpoints have the average re-weighted for the smaller amount of data. The data are 2.5 degree resolution.

This animation is a montage of short clips taken from animations the SVS has created over the past 15 years.

At the end of this lesson you can, by means of the information on a Internet site, answer some questions about French in Belgium and Brussels.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad replaces a piece of track to get the Madre Bonita Express to the Mother's Day harvest.

In July 1839, captive West Africans rebelled and took over the Spanish slaveship Amistad . They ordered the owners to Africa but, instead, the Amistad was taken on a meandering course, finally waylaid by a U.S. Navy brig. The Africans were charged with the murder of the captain and jailed in New ...

On February 15, 1898, an explosion ripped through the American battleship Maine , anchored in Havana harbor, sinking the ship and killing 260 sailors. Americans responded with outrage, assuming that Spain, which controlled Cuba as a colony, had sunk the ship. Two months later, the slogan "Remember ...

In 1909, the predominantly immigrant and female workers in New York City's garment industry staged a series of job walkouts that led to a massive general strike involving more than 20,000 workers. Fifteen-year-old shirtwaist worker Clara Lemlich, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, emerged as a key organizer ...

The 1883 adoption of four standard time zones did not come easily. Many Americans, particularly those who continued to mark the passage of time by the natural rhythms of the sun, resisted the efforts of railroad officials and scientists to impose standard time on the nation. William F. Allen, the first ...

Students will be introduced to the definition mode of writing. Students will learn to define a particular subject by responding in an editorial format. Students will first compose an editorial graphic organizer, which will aid in composing a completed editorial using the writing process.