Browse Interactives

Problem: Cystic Fibrosis

Explore the concept of genetic inheritance. Learn how to calculate the probability that cystic fibrosis will be inherited using the Punnett square.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Observe various migratory species (hummingbirds, butterflies, etc.) and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Rock Cycle Assessment: Test Your Skills

Test your knowledge of rocks and the rock cycle. Take this 15-question test, review your correct and incorrect answers, and print out your assessment.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

The Rock Cycle Diagram

Put your knowledge of rock types and geologic processes together to identify the different parts of the rock cycle. Answer a series of questions to complete the rock cycle diagram.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

The Rock Cycle

Learn how to distinguish between types of rocks and discover how rocks change over time.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Shrinking a Landfill

Shrink a community landfill by 10 percent with a budget of $50,000. Review each type of waste (food, glass, paper, etc.) and see how much reduction you can get for your money.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Start Your Rock Collection

Click on a rock in the landscape to learn more about it. Then add it to your collection.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Stellar Spectra

When the light of a star passes through a spectrograph, elements of that star reveal a specific signature. Compare the spectra of four elements and a star to identify which elements you can detect in the star's atmospere.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Storm Chaser

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado warning. Do you have what it takes to be a storm chaser?

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration

Join the celebration by creating paper butterflies that will migrate to their counterparts in Mexico for the winter. Children in Mexico who live beside the monarch's winter sanctuaries send them north in the spring.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Teacher

Tracing the Path

Draw arrows connecting the sources of energy to the receivers of energy. Remember that some sources of energy have more than one receiver and some receivers of energy have more than one source.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Transform the Rock

There are five processes that can change rocks over time. Pick the process that has changed each rock from one type to another and then identify the process that cycles each rock from magma to rock and back to magma.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Tulip Gardens

Track tulip growth as the season changes from winter to spring. See how temperature, rainfall and sunshine affect growth and help scientists look for patterns of climate change.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Virtual Particle Lab: Compressibility of Air

Explore the particle model of matter. Run the simulations and see if you can predict the results.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Virtual Particle Lab: Dissolving

Explore what happens when one substance dissolves into another. Run the simulations and see if you can predict the results.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Volcanoes

Today, there are many active volcanoes worldwide. Is there anything we can do to predict how and when they will erupt?

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Weather

Try your hand at tornado chasing and discover how wind chill works.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

What's Inside the Earth?

What’s inside the earth? Examine the earth’s distinct layers (crust, mantle and core) and find out.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Where Is the Player?

Examine how multiple light sources produce shadows of differing darkness and length. Move a player (with four light sources) around the field until your image matches the five other images on the page so you can identify where the player is on the field.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Where Should You Build?

Plans are underway for three large building projects near Milehigh Volcano. You must examine soil samples at each site, decide whether or not it’s safe to build and then go to the press conference to report your findings

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student