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High School resources for teachers. Contains videos, worksheets, websites, and activities for students.
In this activity, students will use Google Earth to find the coordinates of some awesome Geologic Formations. Students will have a greater...
Students will dive into the world of balancing using levers and fulcrums. Through a virtual simulation called "Phet Balancing Act," students will...
In this video you will actually get a chance to see how old your ears are. This video does an excellent job explaining the science behind it as...
This is an edited version of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. This video does a great job telling the story of the tsunami from the video of those...
This is a good video that explores the history of the U.S Capitol Building.
Did you and your students know that we all have cancer genes? This video goes through the cell cycle and how cancer cells begin forming and talks...
This is the trailer to the movie the Rosa Parks Story with Angela Bassett. The full movie is a wonderful depiction of the era during the Civil...
This is a great video that can be used as an introduction or a simple review of the characteristics of life.
This is an excellent video that discusses the 10% usage of the brain myth. The video will discuss how the brain functions and the energy required...
In this 3rd through 10th-grade lab, students will observe the formation of salt crystals. Students will also add food coloring to their dissolved...
Vladimir Lenin overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas II and founded the Soviet Union, forever changing the course of Russian politics. But was he a hero...
This is a great video clip to help introduce or further explore the conditions of the Battle of the Bulge during WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World...
This video explains how swallowed air becomes a burp and sometimes a smelly fart. It also describes why those two bodily functions can smell.
When discussing tsunamis it is good to discuss that some tsunamis can reach hundreds of feet high if the conditions are right. In 1958 that is...
I show this video when discussing pyroclastic flows. This is a pyroclastic flow that killed a few people in Japan a couple of years ago. It is a...
Here is a plate tectonic demonstration/lab idea for all grade levels. You can easily use this video when teaching about earthquakes and plate...
This educational video discusses why our bodies need water and answers how much we should drink every day.
This is a great video that shows actual footage and news information for the public about the DooLittle Raids over Japan during WWII. (World War 2...
Here is a story of Stephen Sillett, who discovered that the extremely tall redwood trees actually contain their own ecosystems. Watch this video...
This video answers the misconception that blood is blue when it is in your veins. This video discusses the different hues of red in humans as...
The rumors are partially true that the baldness "gene" comes from your mother's father, but how true is this? Watch this video with your students...