February 3rd, 2023
High School Resource
This web-based practice allows students to:
- see how a heart works
- manipulate an interactive and perform a heart transplant
- learn interesting facts about the heart
- learn how an artificial person could be created
Using this resource is an engaging approach allowing students to learn about the parts of the heart as well as how a heart transplant takes place. This can be used as a review of a previous lesson or as an instructional approach for an introductory lesson.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.LS.1.1, S.MS.LS.1.3, MST4.I.LE.1.2, and more!
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February 1st, 2023
Middle School Resource
How do you think oxygen gets from the air into the parts of your body that need it? How many steps do you think it takes? In this activity, students will trace the path oxygen takes from breathing to running, jumping, lifting, or anything else they need to do!
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January 30th, 2023
Elementary School Resource
In this activity, the nurse/teacher will observe each child locating his or her heart and describing it as a pump.
Related NY State Academic Standards: HPF.HE, HPF.HE.E.1.1.A, HPF.HE.E.1.1.B, and more!
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January 27th, 2023
High School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on Malcom X speaking on the Black Nationalist Movement.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.8.9, SS.8.9.a.1, SS.E.1, and more!
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January 25th, 2023
Middle School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on how Barack Obama’s childhood helped to make him who he is today.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.5.6.a.1, SS.7.5.b.1, SS.8.9.a.3, and more!
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January 23rd, 2023
Elementary School Resource
This resource, from History.com’s archives, focuses on how Black History Month was first started.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.SSP.3.2.5, SS.SSP.3.3.3, SS.SSP.4.2.5, and more!
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January 20th, 2023
High School Resource
This simulation will allow students to generate electricity with a bar magnet. They will discover the physics behind the phenomena by exploring magnets and how you can use them to make a bulb light.
Using this simulation, students will:
- Identify equipment and conditions that produce induction.
- Compare and contrast how both a light bulb and voltmeter can be used to show characteristics of the induced current.
- Predict how the current will change when the conditions are varied.
- Explain practical applications of Faraday’s Law.
- Explain what causes the induction.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.PS.1.4, MST4.I.PS5.2, and MST4.C.P.4.1
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January 18th, 2023
Middle School Resource
In this experiment, you’ll learn that compass needles are little magnets that are free to rotate. Compasses allow us to observe the direction of a magnetic field. Normally, they respond to the earth’s magnetic field, orienting themselves parallel to magnetic field lines. If we create a magnetic field that is stronger than the field of the earth – for example, by using electric currents – a compass needle will orient itself parallel to the new field.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.PS.2.2, S.MS.LS.2.3, MST4.I.PS4.4, and more!
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January 16th, 2023
Elementary School Resource
This experiment shows how your doorbell works. A coil of wire with current flowing through it forms an electromagnet that acts very much like a bar magnet. The coil will magnetize an iron nail and attract it in a remarkably vigorous way.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.3.PS.2.1, S.3.PS.2.2, S.4.PS.3.2, and more!
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January 13th, 2023
High School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on the Freedom March lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.11.4.a.2, SS.11.10.a, SS.E.1, and more!
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