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Students will play the role of the audio engineer who monitors and adjusts the audio levels for a production. This animated interactive job exploration experience connects schoolwork with real work...
Activities
Engage your students in these well-loved interactives from Knowitall.org's signature series Artopia, GullahNet, Hobby Shop, Kids Work! and RiverVenture.
Our NASA Science Simulations provide interactive learning experiences on an assortment of topics.
All of these interactives are non-Flash and have been re-purposed to work on mobile devices (Tested on iPad and Samsung Galaxy tablets).
Interactive
Grades
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The Student will play the role of the producer planning and coordinating the various parts of television production. This animated interactive job exploration experience connects schoolwork with real...
Interactive
Grades
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The Lighting Designer creates the stage lighting for the performance. Students will play the role of a lighting designer to understand that the lighting designer creates stage lighting for...
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A Playwright writes a play that is performed by actors on a stage. Students will understand the components that make up a script including characters, background, setting, acts, and scenes. This...
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Students will connect schoolwork with real work as they explore a virtual representation of a theater with specific work areas labeled and defined. The diagram is a proscenium theater, a traditional...
Interactive
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- Pre K
- Kindergarten
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Students will connect schoolwork with real work as they explore a virtual representation of a television station with specific work areas labeled and defined. Hover your mouse over room to take a look...
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- Pre K
- Kindergarten
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Students will connect schoolwork with real work as they explore a virtual representation of a hospital with specific work areas labeled and defined. There are many areas in a hospital. Some areas are...
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At a lateral plate boundary, plates slide past each other. The San Andreas fault in California is an example of a transform plate boundary, where the Pacific Plate slides past the North American Plate...
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At a convergent plate boundary, lithospheric plates move toward each other. The west margin of the South American continent, where the oceanic Nazca Plate is pushed toward and beneath the continental...
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At a divergent plate boundary lithospheric plates move away from each other. As the two sides move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is...
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Because hurricane movements can be unpredictable, NASA has launched various efforts to improve hurricane tracking. NASA research aircraft equipped with sensors and other instruments have take to the...
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Move your mouse over the hurricane parts in the simulation for a description.
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To understand sound, you first need to understand matter. Everything is made up of matter. Learn more in the simulation above.
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The speed at which sound travels from one place to another depends upon the medium and how closely packed the molecules are in the matter. Learn more about how sound travels from the simulation.
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A wave is energy in motion or energy moving from point to point. To describe the traits of a wave, there are a few terms you need to know. Choose a term in the activity to display its description in...
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Learn the common causes of household odors.
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As you take a deep sniff, the odor particles in the air flow back to the top of your nose. Learn more about the sense of smell in the simulation.
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The Sun is a natural source of visible light waves. Our eyes see the reflection of the sunlight off the objects around us. Check out the simulation to learn more about scattering light.
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In the activity, choose a color to find out why objects appear in a particular color.
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The Earth is surrounded by a thin envelope of gases called the atmosphere. More than 500 active volcanoes erupt around the world affecting the Earth's atmosphere and global climate.
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These brain teasers can help you develop your creative thinking, an important skill for inventors. Try out the brain teaser game.
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Use the arrows to scroll the timeline to discover inventions. Click on an event for more details.
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Play a science word jumble game. Scramble the word jumbles by dragging each letter into the appropriate box.
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Watch the simulation to learn the parts of an airplane.
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RiverVenture
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