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This website presents stories spanning five disciplines, all designed to spark student interest by introducing them to the human involvement in important scientific endeavors and…
  
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This is the home page of The National Academies Press (NAP), created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy…
  
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This teaching module, part of the University of Chicago Internet Project, explores astronomy from the cultural context of past societies and their observations of the heavens. What…
  
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This interactive tutorial promotes understanding of why Earth's rotation makes it appear as though stars are orbiting the Earth. The simulation features Polaris (the North Star) as…
  
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This page from CERES (Center for Educational Resources Project) features 25 classroom-ready lessons for K-12, developed by a team of master teachers, NASA researchers, and university…
  
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This resource collection was developed to communicate the importance of basic research and the power of theoretical physics to general audiences. It features a variety of interactive…
  
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This page from CERES (Center for Educational Resources Project) features a module for middle school on the topic of orbital motion. It was developed by a team of teachers, NASA…
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This nonprofit web consortium features the latest discoveries by scientists at more than 60 leading research universities in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. Launched in 2009, the…
  
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This animated Shockwave activity explores pendulum motion by displaying the patterns traced by the tip of an ideal pendulum. Swing it back and forth from different heights and change…
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This is an extensive set of short downloadable video segments that may be embedded free of cost into educational presentations. Of special interest to physical science and physics…
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