Links+to+Awesome+Hook+ideas+(especially+for+middle+school)

__**Brain Pop Movies with Tim & Mob**y__: Link to free, short videos on tons of topics
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==**__Optical Illusions__:** Great for teaching into observations, inciting your students' scientific curiosity, compelling them to ask and answer questions, foster the organic development of inquiry skills, or for throwing in a quick and captivating Do Now task into a lesson==

[|dragon.pdf] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [|http://www.skidmore.edu/~hfoley/Perc6.htm#ch6demo6] [] [] [] [] [] [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVfcyVCdNA (Bill Nye)] [|http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/sze_shepardTerrors/index.html] [|http://www.indiana.edu.~ensiweb/lessons.html]

**__Earth Visualizations:__** Cool, real-world images of everything including earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, the break-up of Pangaea and Earth's magnetic polarity.
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