Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Great Circles and Straight Lines
Using maps, students explore the concept of distances along great circles and straight lines. Airline flight paths are used as an example.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Traveling on Good Circles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this high-level math lesson has students delve into the topic of Great Circles on a sphere (specifically, the Earth), in order to find the shortest distances between locations. Students will...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Colonial Literature: The Great Awakening
This lesson focuses on Johnathan Edwards and The Great Awakening, a movement to revival the Puritan religion. It features information about the Great Awakening and why in wasn't successful and a link to the sermon "Sinners in the Hands...
Other
Hoover Online!: Circular No. 4
A detailed description of three major attempts made by Herbert Hoover and his administration to get money back into circulation and stem the tide of the Great Depression. Read about the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Circle Graph Analysis and Creation
This site, which is provided for by WNET, gives a great way to practice using circle graphs through these exercises. One is analyzing a pie graph from the Census Bureau and the other creating pie charts using government data.
Other
Fallacy Files: Begging the Question
Discusses the error in logic behind the fallacy of Begging the Question (also known as Circular Argument, Circular Reasoning, Circulus in Probando, Petitio Principii, or Vicious Circle). Although a great deal of information about the...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Diameter
This site shows what a diameter is, how to find one on a circle or a sphere, and provides the formula to find diameter of a circle or "the great circle of a sphere.
Curated OER
Web Math: Find Out Things About Circles
WebMath offers a great site for students to practice finding the diameter, area and circumference of a circle.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: M. C. Escher
This resource provides a very informative biography as well as a gallery with 15 pictures of great Escher art.
Other
University of Evansville: Art Studio Chalkboard
This site from the University of Evansville is a great place for the aspiring artist to visit. Receive free professional advice and tips on basic drawing techniques. The site focuses on perspective drawing and shading.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Utah
Who "led the group of Mormon pilgrims seeking freedom from religious persecution into the Great Salt Lake Valley?" Come to this website and find out!
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Simple Harmonic Motion
Wikipedia offers great information on simple harmonic motion, including an image, formulas, and hyperlinked terms.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Analytic Geometry: Polar Coordinates
This site from The Math Forum provides great information on polar coordinates. You can access this information either by clicking on the coordinates link or just scrolling down, it is the first one listed on the page. Includes several...
Other
Trigonometry: A Quick Review
This site is a personal site from David Eisenberg and it contains brief but great review information for trigonometry. This particular site focuses on sine and cosine inlcuding a small circle graph. Clicking on the index link provides...
Other
Warrensburg Schools: Decomposers or Destroyers
This site from Warrensburg Schools gives a great overview of decomposers, and asks each student to pick an animal to research and complete the "challenge."
Other
Personal Site: Sine and Cosine Do "The Wave"
This personal site provides a great animation of how the sine and cosine waves are formed. It connects the unit circle with the sine and cosine graph.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bees Are Master Pollinators
The study of biomimicry and sustainable design promises great benefits in design application. It affords means by which to promote cost-effective, resourceful, non-polluting avenues for new enterprise. These "blueprints" have existed...
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Polygons Problems
Here are four problems about the area of a regular polygon. Start by finding the area of a hexagon inscribed in a circle of radius 10, and end by proving that as the number of sides of the polygon increases, the area of the polygon...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Assyrians
Ancient Assyrians were inhabitants of one the world's earliest civilizations, Mesopotamia, which began to emerge around 3500 B . C . The Assyrians invented the world's first written language and the 360-degree circle, established...
Other
Joseph Bruchac Home Page: Joseph Bruchac
This site is Joseph Bruchac's homepage. It provides links to his biography, a listing of his major works, and other online resources for the author. It also provides links to several of his poems to open or download on mp3.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gallery: Earth From Space
These satellite images of Earth shows some astonishing things about our planet and our relationship with it.