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Scotland.com
Basic facts and travel information about Scotland. Information is available about business, community, travel, culture, news, sports, and shopping.
Other
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy
KAIROS, a quarterly online journal, explores the effect various technologies have in the classroom, as well as other large-scale issues relating to education.
Other
Wpi: Exponential Growth and Decay
This site explains exponential growth and decay and how it applies to the real world with its use in bacterial populations.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Negative Exponents
This site provides students practice with the concept of negative exponents. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Algebra Expressions With Exponents
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students learn to evaluate powers with variable bases. Students can watch a video tutorial, explore guided notes and attempt practice problems.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Otto Stern Biographical
This is a brief biography on the life and scientific work of Otto Stern, a physicist honored with the Nobel Prize in physics for his "development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stressed and Strained
Learners are introduced to the concepts of stress and strain with examples that illustrate the characteristics and importance of these forces in our everyday lives. They explore the factors that affect stress, why engineers need to know...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: 4.8 Extended Topic: The Four Basic Forces: An Introduction
By the end of this section, you will be able to understand the four basic forces that underlie the processes in nature: gravitational, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, strong nuclear forces.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Evaluate Numerical, Variable Expressions With Powers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students evaluate numerical and variable expressions involving powers. Students can watch a video tutorial, explore guided notes and attempt practice...
Cool Math
Coolmath: Pre Calculus Logarithms
This CoolMath resource provides guided practice logarithm problems that can be tested on a calculator.
Math2
Math 2: Exponential Identities and Logarithms
Exponential identities and logarithms that are commonly used are listed on this page.
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works: How Helium Balloons Work
This article explains how helium is able to keep balloons afloat in the air. Compares them to how hot air balloons work. Includes a video, and some activities to try for testing the principles being discussed.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Basic Log Rules / Explanding Logarithmic Expressions
Purplemath gives both a formal and informal discussion of log rules with exercises. Examples include expanding, simplifying, and evaluating logarithms. Changing the base of a logarithm is also discussed with examples.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Harada House
Property involved in 1916-1918 constitutional test of an alien land law; at issue was the rights of the children of a Japanese immigrant.