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Night lights: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear why bright nighttime lights could be bad for women's health. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Natural hazard risks in the United States: In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students examine specific locations of high risk for various natural hazards, assess why these hazards exist where they do, and investigate what towns and cities are doing to prepare for a natural disaster. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Science); Provided by: National Geographic

Name brands: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a study that showed that people preferred tea brands that shared three letters with their own name. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

My angle on cooling: Effects of distance and inclination: In this Science NetLinks lesson, students discuss what heat is and how it travels. They discover that one way to cool an object in the presence of a heat source is to increase the distance from it or change the angle at which it is faced. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Music & IQ: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about research that examined connections between the study of music and IQ. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mummy's curse: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a scientific investigation that tested the Egyptian legend of the mummy's curse. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

The Mozart effect: The purpose of this lesson is to develop an understanding of why skepticism is important in science. Students will explore what happens when the media and/or the public discover a scientific study and extrapolates the message into “truth” without... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Monkey pay-per-view: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about an experiment in which monkeys were given a carefully measured amount of juice when they looked at, or away from, various pictures. This study may provide information about humans with autism. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mona Lisa's smile: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how the Mona Lisa's smile appears to change depending on where on her face you look. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Modern technology and farming: This lesson from Science NetLinks is an open-ended lesson about agriculture and farming technology. Students have an opportunity to explore five different kinds of farms on a website with interesting visual and audio enhancements. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Modern Leeching: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students will hear about how leeches, popular in medicine in the 1800s, are still used by doctors today, sometimes for safely removing congested blood from a wound. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mass extinction: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a study that may cast doubt on the belief that a giant asteroid wiped out most of life on earth almost 250 million years ago. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mapping mars: This lesson, from Xpeditions, introduces students to some common map projections and representations (e.g. globes or close-ups) and asks them to consider the ways that each representation can be used to show specific features of Mars. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science); Provided by: National Geographic

Make a mission: This Science NetLinks lesson revolves around the MESSENGER spacecraft mission to Mercury (MESSENGER stands for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging). The focus of the lesson is technology, not only how it allows humans to collect scientific... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Lying on email: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a study that explores the challenge of detecting lies and cons over email. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Lying: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks students hear about how people generally see their own lies as being less harmful and more due to situation and not personality, while they are more likely to blame personality if another person lies. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

JFK analysis: In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students will hear atmospheric chemist Ken Rahn describe how he and a ballistics specialist have re-analyzed the data from two major forensic studies of the John F. Kennedy assassination. (Learn more); Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Inventors and innovators: The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to use the Internet to explore the scientific enterprise and the contributions to science of various people. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science); Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Inventing and presenting unit 2: Effective speeches and building the invention: Students read about inventors, propose inventions to solve problems they have identified, and build and test their inventions. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Science); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Inventing and presenting unit 1: Analyzing nonfiction and inventing solutions: Students read about inventors, propose inventions to solve problems they have identified, and build and test their inventions. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Science); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

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