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Science Struck: Interesting Facts About Pi

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents many interesting pieces of information from the history of pi.
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Science Struck: Calculating Percent Difference

For Students 5th - 8th
Explains and demonstrates how to calculate the percent difference using a formula.
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Science Struck: Easy Methods to Calculate Percent Change

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Explains and demonstrates how to calculate the percent change using a formula.
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Science Struck: Real Life Examples of a Parabola

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what a parabola is and the vocabulary used to describe one and gives several examples of parabolas in real life.
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Science Struck: The 6 Chief Levels of Organization in Ecology

For Students 5th - 8th
Describes six levels of organization in the biological world - individual species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere.
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Science Struck: Facts About Hailstorms

For Students 4th - 6th
Discusses the cause of a hailstorm, the impact, and some famous hailstorms.
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Science Struck: A to Z List of European Countries and Their Capitals

For Students 4th - 6th
Presents a map and an alphabetical list of all the European countries and their capital cities.
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Science Struck: List of European Capital Cities With Countries

For Students 4th - 6th
Discusses the geography of Europe and presents a table of 51 European countries and their capitals and a second table of 12 autonomous regions and their capitals.
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Science Struck: Thermal Energy Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what thermal energy is, describes some different types, and presents facts about each type.
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Science Struck: Chemical Potential Energy: Definition and Examples

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what potential energy and chemical potential energy are and gives examples of the latter.
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Science Struck: Difference Between Kinetic and Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what kinetic and potential energy are and how they differ.
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Science Struck: Facts About the Rainforest for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
Presents interesting information about rainforests and the importance of preserving them.
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Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Energy Pyramid and Its Importance

For Students 4th - 7th
Explains the roles of consumers, producers, and detrivores or decomposers and how energy flows through the different levels of the energy pyramid of a tropical rainforest.
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Science Struck: Landforms in Tropical Rainforests

For Students 4th - 6th
Describes five types of landforms found in a tropical rainforest.
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Science Struck: Symbiotic Relationships in the Rainforest

For Students 4th - 7th
Explains what mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are.
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Science Struck: Hydrogen Bomb Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the history of the hydrogen bomb, how it works, countries that have the hydrogen bomb, efforts to prevent its misuse, and interesting facts about it.
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Science Struck: Pros and Cons of Nuclear Weapons

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the pros and cons of nuclear weapons and provides a list of facts about them.
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Science Struck: Facts About the Sahara Desert

For Students 4th - 7th
Discusses the physical geography of the Sahara Desert, the climate, its landforms, the plants and animals that live there, and some of the people who live there or visit.
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Science Struck: A Bird's Eye View of the Desert Food Chain

For Students 4th - 6th
Describes how a food chain works in a desert and how the Mojave desert food chain works in particular.
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Science Struck: Plants and Animals of the Tropical Rainforest Biome

For Students 4th - 7th
Describes the layers of a rainforest, adaptations plants have made, and animals that live there.
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Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Food Web

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explains what a food web is, the complexity of one in a rainforest, and how energy flows through a food web.
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Science Struck: Cross Sectional Area of a Cylinder

For Students 6th - 9th
Presents the formula and an example showing how to find the cross-sectional area of a cylinder. In this case, it is the same as the surface area for the circular faces.
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Science Struck: History of the Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
The modern periodic table has evolved over a long period of time as new discoveries have been made. Learn about the contributions made by different scientists to its development.
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Science Struck: Layers of the Atmosphere in Order

For Students 6th - 8th
Describes each of the five layers of the atmosphere from the troposphere, which is closest to the Earth, up to the outermost one, the exosphere.