Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Horizontal and Vertical Distances on the Cartesian Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place aquatic animals at locations on a Cartesian graph with cardinal directions. Then, they determine both the vertical and horizontal distances between points. The...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Big Is Our Universe?

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Using the Pythagorean Theorem on the Cartesian Graph

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place animals at the correct points on a Cartesian graph representing the cardinal directions. Then, they use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the distances between...
Website
Smithsonian Institution

Freer | Sackler Galleries: Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires

For Students 9th - 10th
Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route. Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as...
Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Point Charge Potential

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Georgia State University explains the concept of electric potential about a point charge or combination of severat point charges. An interactive JavaScript form allows the visitor to investigate the effect of distance...
eBook
Other

Atoms in Motion: Molecular Dynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
These programs are classical 2-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations. Such simulations compute the motions of atoms by summing (integrating) all of the forces that the atoms exert on each other. These forces arise from changes in...