Space.com
Space.com: "Nasa Spin Offs: Bringing Space Down to Earth"
This article from January 26, 2005, offers a video and a list of many common items used daily that exist because of NASA innovations. These include Cat Scans and MRIs, more precise and safer breast imaging, artificial limbs using...
Read Works
Read Works: Hurricanes: Spinning Storms
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about hurricanes and how to stay safe during a hurricane. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Spin It!
Students in kindergarten are required to match quantities with corresponding numerals from 0 to 20. It is best to teach numbers to quantities in "chunks." This lesson focuses on reinforcing counting quantities 0 to 9.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Spinning Hoop Model
A model of a bead traveling along a spinning hoop. The hoop's velocity and the bead's initial angle can be modified, and the results are displayed on an accompanying chart.
PBS
Pbs Nova Online: Spin a Spiral Galaxy
PBS site provides various views of spiral galaxies. (Quick Time required) With this technology, you can manipulate the image to spin it around and look at it from various angles.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo Spinning Yarns, Telling Tales About Textiles
A great resource for introducing different types of textiles and weavings to your students. A good amount of background information is included as well as a few simple learning activities.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What's the Spin?
Students discover properties of rotations using the TI-89 and CABRI Geometry II by rotating a triangle around a point and through a specified angle. They will discover the definition of a rotation. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Climate Literacy
Clean: Going for a Spin Making a Model Steam Turbine
Students explore how various energy sources can be used to cause a turbine to rotate and then generate electricity with a magnet.
Other
Business Insider: Fake Trees With Spinning Leaves Could Harness Wind Power
Let's make some energy! Check out this wind turbine that NewWind has developed for creating small-scale sources of energy.
Virginia Tech
Spinning the Web: Setting Up World Wide Web Servers
Provides helpful information to anyone wanting to set up a WWW server. Also gives good general information as to how WWW servers operate.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Spin Off of Project: Recursive Art
A practice project applying recursive algorithms.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Stern Gerlach Experiment
An interactive simulation that teaches about quantum mechanics, spin, and quantum measurement through a classic Stern-Gerlach Experiment. By observing the spin of atoms as an intrinsic angular momentum, students learn to measure to reach...
Other
James Hargreaves
The life and work of James Hargreaves, the inventor of the spinning jenny that revolutionized the English textile industry and brought on the Industrial Revolution.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build
Do you like to build and create new things? Check out this collection of 48 different engineering activities providing opportunities for creative building using things around the house. These include activities like spinning, rubber band...
Curated OER
Hyper Physics: Electron Spin
An excellent overview of electron spin, what it means in non-mathematical terms and quantum mechanical terms.
Curated OER
Hyper Physics: Electron Spin
An excellent overview of electron spin, what it means in non-mathematical terms and quantum mechanical terms.
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