Smithsonian Institution
Cold War
The Cold War was not necessarily always cold in temperature, but the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union sure was frigid! Scholars read various passages, view exhibition graphics, and observe an artifact from the...
PBS
Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa man who made history when he reached the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, is the focus of an informative article. Class members read about Norgay's perspective on the way up the mountain, the...
American Museum of Natural History
Bio-Benefits
Kick-start a discussion of the importance of biodiversity with a colorful resource that touts the benefits of maintaining healthy ecosystems. The images stress the interdependence of all the elements of an ecosystem.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using a Coordinate Grid
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad must locate each other using a map's grid to construct a coordinate system using letters and numbers.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Cartesian Oval
This University of St. Andrews page offers an illustration and equation for the Cartesian Ovals, sometimes called the "Ovals of Descartes" for their discoverer, Rene Descartes.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: A Description of the Coordinate Plane
A quick description of the coordinate plane is a great preview for students preparing for a unit on graphing.
MadSci Network
Mad Scientist Network: How Do Planes Fly Upside Down?
Question and answer regarding the physics principles that apply to a plane flying upside down.
Federation of American Scientists
Fas: Intelligence Resource Program: U 2 Spy Plane
Complete history and information page from the development of the U-2 to the present day. Includes great illustrations and helpful tables.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Poland Rebuilds After Plane Crash Decimates Government
The plane crash, in Smolensk, Russia, killing the Polish President, first lady and key figures in the Polish government, has created an enormous gap in the leadership of the country. This article, briefly discusses the country's reaction...
PBS
Freedom: A History of Us: A Plane Flight and a Great Crash
Read a brief description of the attempts to cross the Atlantic in a plane in the 1920s, ending with information about the successful trans-Atlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh.
Other
Plane Writing
This resource contains quotations and information about aviation throughout history.
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Newton's Experiments
A collection of projects that recreated Isaac Newton's experiments as he would have built them in the seventeenth century. The projects include the mechanical advantage possible using three levers, the trajectory of a projectile, air...
Other
Hpedsb: Geometry
This page of Geometry links addresses many of the Geometry expectations in the Ontario K-8 Math curriculum. There are simple sorting exercises for Grade One and Cartesian Graphing tasks for the intermediate grades.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Dwight D. Eisenhower
This site from the National Portrait Gallery explores presidential actions during the Cold War. Click on Dwight D. Eisenhower to see how the Cold War was developing and being handled during his presidency. Find out about the Communist...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Finding the Intersection
In this Cyberchase video, Inez and Digit identify the location of the transformatron using their knowledge of parallel and intersecting lines.
Other
Aerostories: Gary Powers' Misadventure
An excellent resource for learning about the U-2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers that was shot down over Russia in 1960. Contains a very detailed examination of the origins of spy plane missions plus fabulous details that bring...
NBC
Msnbc: Video of 9/11 Plane Hitting Pentagon Is Released
Video slideshow along with brief news article from May, 2006, about the Pentagon releasing the first video images of the attack on the Pentagon.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Two Points Determine a Line
In this video segment [2:10] from Cyberchase, Digit must make a straight line between the two points and then follow the path created.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Two Sightings, Different Information
Jackie and Matt are looking at the same object along two different lines, in this video segment from Cyberchase.
Other
Aviation Internet Group: Aviation Theory
Collection of articles ranging from basic to advanced on aerodynamics theory.
Other
All Star: Airfoils
The basic theories of aeronautics are explained through several airfoil activities and animations. Click on Level 2 or 3 for an easier reading level.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Recortando Geometria
In Spanish. In this site you will find different activities involving geometric plane figures.
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics: Reflection From Mirrors
Included here are illustrations of reflections from a plane mirror, a concave mirror and a convex mirror.
Other
Uscfc: Jack Northrop and the Northrop Corporation
A biographical site about the man responsible for designing the sleek Vega that carried pilots on record-setting flights and for designing planes with a stressed skin over an internal frame.