Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: NOAA Tides and Currents, managed by the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), is the portal to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's vast collection of oceanographic and meteorological data (historical and real-time), predictions, and nowcasts and forecasts. The site has several online tools that can be used to choose the data type, navigate to a station, and retrieve the data.... 412 USGS Real-Time Water Data for the Nation Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has collected water-resources data at approximately 1.5 million sites across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Guam. The types of data collected are varied, but generally fit into the broad categories of surface water and ground water.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Health Science, Law & Public Safety Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource consists of a searchable database that provides information about 116 chemical elements. Available data includes: atomic number, atomic weight, boiling point, crystal structure , date discovered, melting point, molar mass, number of electrons, number of isotopes, number of protons, specific gravity, and chemical symbol.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Health Science Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This database allows the user to retreive information for more than 25,000 hazardous chemicals or 'generic' entries based on a keyword search. Potential keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS, EINECS, Beilstein and Merck).... 415 NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource provides a searchable database of physical constants, International System of Units (SI), and uncertainty of measurement. The physical constants can be searched for by name or category.... Career Fields: Engineering & Science Technologies, Health Science Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource offers a bank of over 6000 digital resources for the teaching of biology. The searchable collection includes black and white diagrams, color diagrams, and photos.... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Standards First 417 Tides and Currents: Tides and Currents Education Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This content resource describes the tremendous forces that cause the world’s tides. Additionally, this resource provides lesson plans that focus on the forces that cause and affect tides and the effects that lunar cycles have on living organisms.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: The primary component of this content resource is an online activity in which students "drag" moons to their correct places in lunar cycles. There are calendars that include illustrations of the phases of the moon for most days, and the challenge is for students to complete the calendars by filling them with the correct moon phases... 419 The Mystery of the Maladjusted Material: Principles in Expansion and Contraction Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This content resource is an activity that deals with the behavior of substances when heated and cooled. A review of the topic of expansion and contraction provides students with instruction that most materials expand when heat is added and contract when heat is removed.... 420 Coral Reef Connections Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This content resource allows students to explore various biotic relationships in a coral reef ecosystem. The resource is an interactive animation in which students “swim” through a coral reef.... |