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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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It's not your average summer camp...not only are these kids having fun, they are learning. The South Carolina State Museum offers camps that focus on STEAM- science, technology, engineering, art, and...
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Team "Making It Grow" tags along with The University of South Carolina's Director of The AC Moore Herbarium Dr. John Nelson and his Spring Flora Botany Class. They tour the native plants along the...
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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.