Browse Interactives

Alien Eyes

Explore parallax which causes each of your eyes to produce slightly different images. Then imagine yourself an alien and try to predict which images each of your four eyes see.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

American Robin

Observe robins and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Are you really in danger when you are taking those hairpin turns and death-defying loops on a roller coaster? Discover how amusement park rides use the laws of physics to simulate danger, while keeping the rides safe.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Amusement Park Physics (Non-Flash Version)

Are you really in danger when you are taking those hairpin turns and death-defying loops on a roller coaster? Discover how amusement park rides use the laws of physics to simulate danger, while keeping the rides safe.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Applied Genetic Modification

Explore practical uses of genetic engineering techniques to generate a plant that produces a hepatitis B protein for potential vaccine use. Examine the use of restriction enzymes for cloning and plasmid mapping.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Bald Eagles

Track bald eagle migration. Report your sightings and observations to the bald eagle tracking map.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Carbon Lab

Run this model of the carbon cycle to see how carbon circulates through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans and the earth's crust. Explore ways that human input might change global outcomes in the future.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Cat-Traption

Play an animation that incorporates most types of energy transfers and conversions into a chain reaction. Then rerun the animation and answer questions to test your understanding of how energy can travel and change.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Colliding Cars

Try to predict what will happen in three different bumper car collisions. For each collision, you'll be shown two possible outcomes.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Colored Shadows

Manipulate dual shadows and learn why different types of shadows are cast.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Continents Over Time

You have two minutes to correctly arrange five images showing the positions of the continents during different geologic periods. Can you do it?

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Convergent Boundaries - Colliding Plates

What are convergent boundaries? Examine how collisions of oceanic and continental plates can create volcanoes, island arcs and earthquakes.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Demographics Lab

Use real demographic data and a simulator to understand the factors that control human population growth, recognize the demographic transition in human history, and gain a sense of how population demographics has a very human impact in all areas of our planet.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Design a Roller Coaster

Try your hand at designing a roller coaster using physics concepts that are used to create real coasters. When you're done, your coaster will need to pass an inspection for both safety and fun.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Designing Cancer Drugs: Development of Gleevec

Follow the steps in the development of a cancer drug — from initial research on the targeted disease to the drug’s use in humans. Learn how drug design targets a disease by exploiting the structure of a protein that causes that disease.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Discovering Neutrino Oscillation

Discover neutrino oscillation and try to match real experiments with this simulator. Do electrons oscillate? What happens to the rate of neutrino detection as you move closer and farther from the source?

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Disease Lab

This simulator will let you explore various diseases: Kold, a caricature of the common cold; Impfluenza, which resembles an influenza outbreak; and Red Death, a fast-spreading epidemic with a high mortality rate. What factors influence the spread of these diseases, and what can we do to counter them?

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Divergent Boundaries - Spreading Plates

What happens as boundaries diverge? Watch a continental rift, volcanoes and lakes form as two continental plates move apart.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

DNA

Learn about genetics, genetic engineering, the Human Genome Project and the ethical implications of these new technologies.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

DNA Assessment: Test Your Skills

Test your knowledge of DNA, RNA, genes, genomes, transcription and genetic engineering. Take this 40-question test, review your answers, and print out your assessment.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student