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Interactive
Mapping the Brain
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Use this atlas to understand the relationship between brain anatomy and function, and use some of the same imaging techniques neuroscientists use to map the brain.
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Activities
Design Squad Nation Hands-on Activities
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8
These activities are hands-on challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
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Lesson Plan
Can the Media Influence the Fairness of Criminal Trials? Grade Range: 9-12
In this lesson, students will investigate how press coverage of criminal trials has the potential to influence public opinion and the rights of the accused. Using a video case study of a trial in the Philippines, the class will first discuss how a man was characterized in the media following his arrest, and then analyze the coverage of the trial and verdict.
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Video
Twin Prime Conjecture
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Prime numbers bear a mystery. Why do primes tend to pair up? Five and seven, for example, are prime, as are 41 and 43, and 101 and 103. For millennia, mathematicians have wondered: Does this continue no matter how high one counts? As this video and its original song reveal, a mathematician has just given us an answer to this age-old enigma.
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Interactive
Exploring Ancient Egypt
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Want to walk around the Sphinx? Clamber inside the Great Pyramid of Giza and seek out the pharaoh's burial chamber? Visit the magnificent tombs and temples of ancient Thebes? In this multi-layered, highly visual interactive, view 360� panoramas, "walkaround" photos, and other breathtaking imagery shot throughout the Giza Plateau and ancient Thebes.
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Video
A Bat in the Brownies
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Watch as adventure begins when a little brown bat crash lands into a plate of the Wild Kratts' brownies. The gang learns how bats are nothing to be afraid of, and they gain a new appreciation for bat ecology, predators, insects and echolocation.
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