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This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics
Discuss Earth's tectonic plates at middle school level with an informative presentation. Packed with maps, satellite images, diagrams, and photographs, the slideshow connects with any curriculum focused on plate tectonics. It...
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Changing Crust
For this changing crust worksheet, students use candy bars, licorice sticks and bubble gum to simulate the 3 types of forces that change the Earth's crust. These include compressional forces, tensional forces and transversal forces. The...
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Graham Cracker Plate Tectonics
In this plate tectonics worksheet, students use Graham crackers, frosting, water and a paper plate to simulate tectonic processes such as convergent, divergent and transforming plate boundaries.
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Convergent or Divergent Series
For this convergent or divergent worksheet, students examine a given series and determine if it is absolutely convergent, conditionally convergent or divergent. This two-page worksheet contains seven multi-step problems.
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Walking With a Line
Students create various design drawings using parallel, oblique, and divergent lines and the medium of black paper and colored gel pens.
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Worksheet 15: Integrals
In this integral worksheet, students identify improper integrals as convergent or divergent. They compute the area and volume of regions bounded by a graph. This two-page worksheet contains approximately twenty-five problems. This is...
University of California
Ucmp: Wegener (1880 1930)
Complete biographical information with links to his theories. Contains links to interactives on plate tectonics.
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Vienna: Sequences Convergent or Divergent?
Given a set of eight sequence formulae, determine whether each is convergent or divergent. After completing the exercises, the site returns a score to judge understanding of such sequences.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Sequences and Series
Hotmath provides 20 practice problems relating to sequences and series. Each of the practice problems include a step-by-step guide for solving.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Volcano Formation
Explanation of the factors that result in the formation of volcanoes, some basic but helpful animations and photographs.
Other
Pangea: Alfred L. Wegener Biography
Two biographies of Wegener and his work including his theory on how raindrops form.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tool: Quiz on Convergent and Divergent Series
Learners exhibit comprehension of advanced mathematical concepts in Pre-Calculus. The online quiz tests the scholars on convergent and divergent series.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Ring of Fire
Students identify plate boundaries as well as continents, countries, and bodies of water to become familiar with an area known as the "Ring of Fire."
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Divergent Series
This page discusses divergent series, providing links to more detailed information about various aspects of divergent series.
Other
Interactive Real Analysis: Sequence of Numbers
This is a short lesson from the Seton Hall University explaining increasing and decreasing sequences.