Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyzing Two Dimensional Motion
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will analyze motion in two dimensions, including projectile and circular motion.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols and Colors: Two Dimensional Shapes
Describes, with illustrations, the basic two-dimensional shapes students will encounter in elementary Math.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Regular 2 D Shapes
This tutorial provides illustrations for regular 2-D shapes as well as a definition for polygons and for regular polygons.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Two Dimensional Air Drop Model
How do Red Cross pilots manage to drop loads of supplies from airplanes on a specific target? This simulation will illustrate this example of projectile motion.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Motion of a Two Stage Rocket
Observe the motion of the two-stage rocket and the corresponding, animated velocity-time graph in these illustrations.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math in the Home
An excellent compilation of activities that engage parents and children in math explorations at home. Detailed lessons covering a wide range of math topics such as fractions, measurements, money, data collection, and math in newspapers....
Science Struck
Science Struck: List of Different Types of Geometric Shapes
A comprehensive list of 2D shapes and 3D solids with everything from a triangle to a dodecahedron. Includes illustrations and short descriptions of attributes for each.
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Shadow Play
Everyone and everything has a shadow. Shadows illustrate how three-dimensional objects can be viewed in two dimensions.