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Save time and money by buy all three video guides for the PBS documentary series The Mystery of Matter. Great for supplemental material, three sub days, or distance learning. What is included?Out of Thin Air~ Editable video guide for students including 17 questions (13 fill in the blank, 3 short answer, 1 paragraph) ~ Teacher key ~ Link to documentary on YouTube (56 min) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Gt5IOjAuc) ~ Teacher instructions and suggestions Unruly Elements~ Editable video guide

The Mystery of Matter: Into the Atom - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand the elements. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the third and final episode entitled Into the Atom of the PBS documentary series The Mystery of Matter. This documentary looks at the story of how scientists were able to combine and split atoms leading to the discovery of nuclear physics. The la

The Mystery of Matter: Unruly Elements - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists learned that elements can be grouped together by their properties. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the second episode entitled Unruly Elements of the PBS documentary series The Mystery of Matter. This documentary tells the story of how Mendeleev created the Periodic Table of Elements and Marie Curie's discov

Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand the theory of quantum mechanics. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the third episode entitled Quantum Leap of the NOVA documentary Fabric of the Cosmos. This documentary delves into the story of how scientists were able discover the theory of quantum mechanics, what quantum mechanics means, and

Save time and money by buy all four video guides for the NOVA documentary series Fabric of the Cosmos. Great for supplemental material, four sub days, or distance learning. What is included?What is Space?~ Editable video guide for students including 25 questions (21 fill in the blank, 3 short answer, 1 paragraph) ~ Teacher key ~ Link to documentary on YouTube (56 min) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSqWfu8aupI) ~ Teacher instructions and suggestions The Illusion of Time~ Editable video guide

Ecosystems WebQuestThis WebQuest is a great way for students to review the different types of ecosystems and how humans are impacting them. The first website in this WebQuest focuses on what is an ecosystem, what are the different types of ecosystems, and how organisms interact in an ecosystem. During the second website, they will be looking into biomes and human impacts on ecosystems. What is included?~ Editable worksheet with 10 questions ~ Suggestion for early finishers ~ Teacher Key ~ Teache

Ancient Computer - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn animals with bioluminescence and biofluorescence. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide was created for the documentary Ancient Computer produced by NOVA and National Geographic. In this documentary, a team of scientists explain the discovery of creatures that produce their own light through the mechanisms of bioluminescence and biofluorescence. It also shows how rese

Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand something that we are all familiar with but has surprising properties. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the second episode entitled The Illusion of Time of the NOVA documentary Fabric of the Cosmos. This documentary delves into how we normally think of time verse Einstein's discovery of

The Mystery of Matter: Out of Thin Air - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand the elements. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the first episode entitled Out of Thin Air of the PBS documentary series The Mystery of Matter. This documentary delves into the story of how scientists came to understand what elements are and how they interact with each other. The last questi

This is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand our place in the Universe. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the NOVA documentary on the how space exploration has changed from the time of Galileo. This documentary guide focuses on discoveries that different astronomers have made and the telescopes and spacecraft that have made these discoveries possible. The last question is one where studen

This is an easy way to help your students stay on top of any assignments, activities, or assessments they missed while they were absent. These forms are great for when students are absent and you need to communicate with them when they come back what they missed and when they need to turn it in by. They also help you to avoid questions like "What did I miss?", "Did we do anything when I was gone?", and "Do I have to make up everything I missed?". There are three different editable handouts inclu

Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand the idea of multiverses. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the forth and final episode entitled Universe or Multiverse of the NOVA documentary series Fabric of the Cosmos. This documentary delves into the story of how scientists came to understand that there are likely more universes b

Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space? - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand what makes up the space in which the universe resides. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the first episode entitled What is Space? of the NOVA documentary Fabric of the Cosmos. This documentary delves into the story of how scientists were able to make discoveries about space, what they found,

This is a fun and engaging way to help students visualize two dimensional motion. This is a project that is intended to help students learn how object move in two dimensions, real life scientists and engineers are able to create new inventions with limited resources, and to work in groups. What is included?~ Hand out for students that introduces the project and give a break down what is expected in this project. ~ Worksheet for determining groups ~ Worksheet for sketch of catapult ~ Grading rubr

This is a fun and engaging way to help student visualize how humans hear and see. This is a worksheet to be give to students after they have been introduced to the anatomy of the ear and eye. The students will be asked to color and label the diagrams as well as explain how the different parts are used by the body to allow humans to perceive sound and light. What is included?~ Printable worksheet with diagrams ~ Teacher instructions and suggestions What types of files are included?~ PDF

Ancient Computer - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn about the Antikythera mechanism. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide was created for the NOVA documentary Ancient Computer. In this documentary, a team of scientists explain their journey that lead to our present understanding of the Antikythera mechanism. It was found at the site of a ship wreck, and after much debate and studying, scientists now believe it to be a

First Flower - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn how scientists are using fossils and present day plants to discover what the first flower could have looked like. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide was created for the documentary First Flower produced by NOVA. In this documentary, a team of scientists talk about a fossil found in China that is believed to be one of the oldest known fossils of a flowering plant. They

Back to the Moon - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn how scientists are planning to go back to the Moon. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide was created for the documentary Back to the Moon produced by NOVA. In this documentary, a team of scientists explain what scientists have learned about the Moon since the last manned mission in the early 1970s. It also explains how scientists are planning to go back in the near f

This is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand the natural processes of our Earth. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the History Channel documentary on the Ring of Fire is intended to help students learn important facts about the natural processes that cause volcanoes to form and earthquakes to happen and how scientists research and learn new things about what makes up the Earth. The last

This is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how scientists come to understand objects in our Solar System and how our Solar System was formed. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the NOVA documentary on the how space exploration is conducted through the use of spacecraft. This documentary guide focuses on discoveries that astronomers have made through the use of the New Horizons spacecraft and how they were able to guide i