Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Instruments
Use this site to learn all about the instruments that are used to measure things related to weather.
NASA
Nasa: Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch
This lesson plan allows students to learn about the layers of the atmosphere and to learn how to graph real atmospheric data.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Layman's Guide to How a Sling Psychrometer Works
A sling psychrometer is used to measure humidity levels. Read about its history, how it works, its design, and how to use it. Includes a relative humidity table.
Other
Elms Environmental Education Center: How to Use a Clinometer
Offers instructions in how to use a clinometer, an instrument used by foresters for measuring angles in order to determine the height of a tree. The mathematics behind a clinometer is also explained.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Devices Used to Measure Angles
Looks at the many devices used to measure angles in academic settings and in real-world settings.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Measurement
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will explore different instruments used for measuring length, time, temperature and weight. Non standard units of measurement (unifix cubes) are also included. Activotes are...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Drawing and Measuring an Angle
Students learn to use drawing and measurement tools to measure angles. They explore and review types of angles as their measurements are altered.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Measures of Central Tendency
Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency in data analysis. Each can be used to identify central tendency. Box-and-whiskers plots are a visual representation of collected data involving medians.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Classifying a Triangles by Their Angle Measure Using Cabri Jr
This activity uses Cabri Jr to classify triangles according to their angle measure. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Measuring Angles in a Quadrilateral
In this activity, use an interactive, and investigative approach to determining the sum of the interior angles of a quadrilateral. They use Cabri Jr. to draw, measure, and calculate the characteristics of the angles of quadrilaterals.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Geoboard App
Students use the Geoboard App to measure arcs, line segments, area, and perimeter, as well as rotate, reflect, and translate objects.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Do You Measure Up? (With the Ti 10)
In this activity, students measure weight, height, and length with the help of a balance, scales, rulers, yardstick, and tape measures. They use their TI-10 to find proportions and to round off answers to whole numbers.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Coming Clean About Showering Time
In this activity using the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Coming clean about showering time," students will find the measures of central angles and arcs of a circle. They will use circumference, radius, concentric circles and degrees in a circle...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Phosphate Analysis
One method of measuring phosphate concentration is by using a Colorimeter. This instrument measures the amount of light transmitted through a sample at a given wavelength.The amount of light absorbed is mathematically related to the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Calculating the Area of a Triangle Using Heron's Formula
Students will measure the lengths of the sides of three different triangles and apply Heron's Formula to calculate the area in acres. The measurements for this activity may be done outside or, using a specified scale, completed inside....
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Extension: Parallel Lines and the Sum of the Angles
Students construct a line parallel to the base of a triangle and measure the angles formed. They use the construction to prove that the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Collecting Data in Geometry
This activity is designed for students to make conjectures about triangles. Students will create three lists to represent the measures of the angles of the triangle. The entire class list will then be sent to each student for analysis,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Can a Clock Part Measure Gravity?
In this activity students will learn how to make a simple pendulum. Students' will use a motion detector to measure the period of a pendulum and calculate its acceleration.They will also understand the effect that gravity has on the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Properties of Reflections
I use this activity in the beginning of the school year when introducing terminology such as angles, lines, segments, measures, perpendicular etc. The original material is from the SIMMS Integrated Mathematics using Technology, I have...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Only Half There?
In this activity, students use measuring tools and calculators to make half-sized drawings of themselves.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Nitrate
Student uses the Nitrate Ion-Selective Probe to measure the Nitrate ions concentration in water samples. In another method, student converts nitrate ions to nitrite and uses the Colorimeter to measure nitrite and calculate the nitrate...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal With Cabri Jr.
Using Cabri Jr, the students (with the teachers help) will create parallel lines cut by a transversal, measure angles, and compare the relationships of the angles formed using features of the Cabri Jr.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Cabri Geometry Tour
In this activity, students use the Cabri software to mark points, draw lines, construct parallel and perpendicular lines, angles, bisectors, and triangles. They learn how to use the tool to measure angles.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity Forestry
Forest industry professionals make measurements in their work using tools including the Clinometer and the Biltmore Stick. These tools are based on the concepts of similar triangles and trigonometric ratios in a right triangle. This...