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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Atomic Interactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the interactions between various combinations of two atoms. Turn on the force arrows to see either the total force acting on the atoms or the individual attractive and repulsive forces. Try the "Adjustable Attraction" atom to see...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How to Pull Something Heavy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students measure and analyze forces that act on vehicles pulling heavy objects while moving at a constant speed on a frictional surface. They study how the cars interact with their environments through forces, and discover which...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Power of Mechanical Advantage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the mechanical advantage offered by pulleys in an interactive and game-like manner. By virtue of the activity's mechatronic presentation, they learn to study a mechanical system not as a static image, but rather as a...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Far Does the Robot Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their multiplication skills using robots with wheels built from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits. They brainstorm distance travelled by the robots without physically measuring distance and then apply their math skills to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Mummified Troll: Devising a Protection Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the parameters of an engineering challenge in which their principal has asked them to devise an invisible security system to cost-effectively protect a treasured mummified troll, while still allowing for...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Eureka! Or Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore material properties in hands-on and visually evident ways via the Archimedes' principle. First, they design and conduct an experiment to calculate densities of various materials and present their findings to the class....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Penny Perfect Properties (Solid Liquid Interactions)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the property dependence between liquid and solid interfaces and determine observable differences in how liquids react to different solid surfaces. They compare copper pennies and plastic "coins" as the two test...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bernoulli's principle relates the pressure of a fluid to its elevation and its speed. Bernoulli's equation can be used to approximate these parameters in water, air or any fluid that has very low viscosity. Students learn about the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Conic Sections: Ellipses

For Students 9th - 10th
Given an equation, the student will use parameter changes to graph an ellipse and to identify the changes in the graph of an ellipse.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Conic Sections: Hyperbolas

For Students 9th - 10th
Given an equation, the student will use parameter changes to graph a hyperbola and to identify the changes in the graph of a hyperbola.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Transformations of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given an exponential or logarithmic function, the student will describe the effects of parameter changes.
Interactive
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Spectroscopic Simulator

For Students 9th - 10th
A simulation of the vibrational/rotational spectrum of a diatomic molecule (for physical chemistry courses). This simulation of an infra-red spectrometer allows students to adjust the experimental and molecular parameters and observe the...
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: What Causes Weather?

For Students 5th - 7th
Determine parameters of weather; including specifically temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind direction and wind speed in this tutorial. During this tutorial, you will relate the jet stream and ocean circulation to the causes of...
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NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Human Impact on Estuaries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will make a model of a pollution spill that occurred at Bangs Lake, a tidal lake within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mississippi, in April 2005, and measure water quality parameters in their model....
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Thomson Reuters

Find Law: Article Iv: Doctrine of the Equality of States

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource discusses Clause 1, Section 3, in Article IV. It outlines the parameters put in place to ensure that as new states entered the union, power was equitably distributed among all.
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PBS

Pbs: Pushing Boundaries: Science Fiction and Feminism: Ursula K. Le Guin

For Students 9th - 10th
In this series of videos from the American Masters film Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, learn how Le Guin and her contemporaries pushed science fiction from a male-dominated genre into a more inclusive form. By redefining the parameters of...
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Missouri State University

Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: Linear Regression Models

For Students 9th - 10th
Four examples which use the linear regression model in real-world applications. The site continues with discussion on how to correctly construct the regression model, how its results can be analyzed, and what can come from it.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Statistics: Introduction to Inferential Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to inferential statistics to find relationships and patterns in datasets.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Creating a Good Survey and Analyzing the Results

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will learn how to develop a sample survey while also using inferential statistics to solve real-world problems.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Families of Functions Using Ti Navigator System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Lesson Concept we use whole-class participation in the Activity Center to cultivate students understanding of how the graph of a basic function can vary through the change of a parameter. The classroom-group environment can...
Interactive
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Modeling an Epidemic

For Students 9th - 10th
In this simulation, statistics of population parameters and infection parameters determine the spread of the epidemic.
Handout
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art: Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
In recent years, the parameters of Islamic art (particularly as defined by museums, commercial art galleries, and private collections) have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. These...
Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Two wave graphs depicting a sine wave and relating the various characteristics (wavelength, amplitude, frequency, and period) of a wave to each other. The site includes an interactive JavaScript form in which the visitor enters one...

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