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The ASPIRE Lab is now one of the most innovative and interactive science education websites available on the Internet. You will find not only fun interactive labs, but well designed and produced curriculum content, created by teachers for teachers. The powerful combination of inquiry-based content, along with interactive, hands-on labs provides a powerful visualization tool for you and your students to use. Best of all, the ASPIRE Lab is free!
A special note about the Machines lab - The machines lab is working on most systems running Firefox 3.0. Safari is not loading in the lessons properly if you are on a Macintosh machine, so if your lab is Mac based please use a Firefox browser. If your lab is not displaying quite right, push the 'lift' or 'pull' button to re-initialize the applet. Thank you for your patience and we are continuing to fix this as soon as we can.
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Bread Board project |
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A basic black box breadboard project. This project will create a programmable LED or series of LEDs which can then be programmed to change color. Basic electronics, programming and concepts about persistence of vision are covered in this lab |
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Cosmic Zoom |
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Zoom in from the far reaches of the galaxy by powers of ten. |
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Gas Particles in Motion |
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Relating volume, temperature, and pressure. A classic ASPIRE lab re-written for Flash. |
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Kinetic Energy |
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Relating mass, speed and energy. A classic lab re-written for Flash |
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Lunar Phases |
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Learn about the lunar phases. |
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Lunar Phases (espaņol) |
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Aprenda sobre las fases lunares. |
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Our Atmosphere |
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Learn about the atmosphere. |
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Scientific Method |
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The scientific method and its application to astronomy |
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Seismic Waves |
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How do scientists know what the core of the Earth looks like? Learn more about seismic waves and find out. |
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Shoot the stars |
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How do scientists know if stars are moving towards us or away from us? Use Doppler in this virtual lab to shoot stars and see what happens |
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Star Life Cycle |
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Learn the full life cycle of a star. |
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Sun Angle |
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Why doesn't it get warm at the North Pole like it does at the equator, even though it has 24-hour days? |
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Tides |
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Learn about the Earth's tides. |
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Wave Basics |
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Learning the basics of waves... amplitude, wavelength, and frequency. |
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