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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

Why is Sleep Important? - WebQuestThis WebQuest is a great way for students to review the importance of sleep. The first website in this WebQuest focuses on the biology of sleep and how it happens. During the second website, they will be looking at how much sleep different age groups need and what can happen if they do not get enough sleep. The final website talks about sleep debt and the consequences of it. What is included?~ Editable worksheet with 12 questions ~ Teacher Key ~ Teacher instruct

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

This is a fun and engaging way to help students learn about how scientists learning about cells. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide was created for the documentary Secret Life of Cells from The Kunt and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. This documentary describes how scientists are currently researching cells, their discoveries, and how their discoveries are impacting cancer research. The last question asks students to write at least a paragraph explai

Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator - TED Talk Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn about how procrastination affects our lives. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide was created for the TED Talk Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator by Tim Urban. This video describes how procrastination happens and the long-term problems of procrastination. It uses a fun analogy using a money and panic monster to help people u

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

DNA: The Secret of Life - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn how scientists were able to determine the structure of DNA. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the first episode entitled The Secret of Life of the PBS documentary series DNA. This documentary, explains how Watson and Crick were able to discover the structure of DNA. It also talks about the other scientist who were working on this same project i

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

DNA: The Human Race - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn about the Human Genome Project. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the second episode entitled The Human Race of the PBS documentary series DNA. This documentary describes how Alec Jeffrey was first able to determine that every person's DNA is unique. Then it moves into a discussion about Fred Sanger's research into the DNA sequence for a simple vir

Save time and money by buy all five video guides for the PBS documentary series DNA. Great for supplemental material, four sub days, or distance learning. What is included?The Secret of Life~ Editable video guide for students including 16 questions (11 fill in the blank, 4 short answer, 1 paragraph) ~ Teacher key ~ Link to documentary on YouTube (53 min) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DDenDpiSU) ~ Teacher instructions and suggestions Playing God~ Editable video guide for students including

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

Building Atoms LabThis is a great resource to help students understand how protons, neutrons, and electrons come together to form atoms. In this lab, students will use colored beads representing the subatomic particles in order to visualize an atom. Once students have had their model checked by the teacher, they can then draw their model on the lab handout. The second part of the lab has students investigate how isomers are different from each other. They will once again model and then draw the

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

Evidence for Origin Theories ActivityThis is a great resource to help students learn what evidence can be used to support the theory of evolution and theory of creation. In this product, students will use cards to organize what pieces of evidence can be used to support each theory. They will then write down their answers onto a worksheet and answer two post activity questions. Evidence that this activity covers includes: RNA world, irreducible complexity, fossil record, vistigual structures, mic

DNA: Playing God - Video GuideThis is a fun and engaging way to help students learn how scientists discovered how to genetically engineer organisms. Great for supplemental material, a sub day, or distance learning. This video guide created for the second episode entitled Playing God of the PBS documentary series DNA. This documentary describes how Boyer first discovered the process involved in genetically engineering organisms. Later on it discusses how scientists came together to self regulat

Take Home Lab - Transverse Waves & Wave Properties of LightThis is a fun and engaging way to help students understand how to conduct a lab while learning about transverse waves and how rainbows can be created from light. Great for distance learning. This take home lab was built for students to do entirely at home with little to no help from a teacher or adult. However, the lab could be used as an independent inquiry lab in class. The supplies needed for this lab are ones that most if not all st

Chemistry Naming ActivityThis is a great resource to help students learn the rules to naming molecules and compounds. In this product, students will use cards to build the names for ionic and covalent compounds. There are various metal and non-metal element names and symbols, 1-10 prefixes, suffixes, and numbers 1-9. These can be use to create the chemical names and formulas for this activity. The activity entails students determining whether a compound is an ionic or covalent bond and then usin

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