Hi, what do you want to do?
Texas A&M University
E education/tamu.edu
"The eEducation group, located in the College of Education at Texas A&M University," centers most of its activities "around web-based curriculum development and professional development for teachers and administrators" in Texas and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: California Public Media Education Service
Public media stations across California have banded together to package a comprehensive set of broadcast and digital resources for teachers, students, and families for at-home learning. Drawing on our most popular offerings to teachers...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Cornell Office of Distance Learning
This is the home page for the office of distance learning at Cornell University. A course catalog and several other distance learning related links are provided on this site.
Other
Sprk: Time, Speed, and Distance:teacher Guide [Pdf]
Students will use Sphero to show that there is a linear relationship between time, speed, and distance. They will program Sphero to move at a particular speed for a particular amount of time, and then measure how far it has gone.They...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Light at a Distance: Distance and Light Intensity
In this activity, students can use a light sensor to record the light intensity at various distances from a bulb. They will compare the data to an inverse square and a power law model.
Other
Montana State University: Extended University
Located at Montana State University-Bozeman, find professional development, non-credit courses, video conferencing, and outreach to extend learning.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Interaction at a Distance [Pdf]
An experiment where students investigate the strength of magnets. This site includes a lesson plan with both teacher and student information for completing the experiment.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: It's Outta Here!
This activity uses the graphing calculator and the CBR(tm) to determine how far a baseball will travel and if it would be a homerun at a Major League baseball game. This activity uses differential equations to determine the distance...
PBS
The Math of Bicycles: Wheel Figure This Out (Grades 4 7)
Several good activities here. Look particularly at Wheel Figure It Out (which is the opening page) and Gearing Up. There are answers to the very good questions at the bottom of each.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Time Laps
In this activity, you will create a picture of time and speed as they relate to changes in the weight of a radio controlled race car. This picture will be a graph - a mathematical model- that allows to you predict the speed of your radio...
Other
University of Phoenix
At the University of Phoenix, you can earn your bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree any way you want to on campus, online, or in certain areas using a combination of both, which we call FlexNet. The University of Phoenix has grown to...
Other
Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 4 Percentages: Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Students will use Sphero to explore percentages using speed and color. The speed experiments are quantitative and the color experiments are qualitative. They will program the Sphero to move at 100% speed for a particular amount of time,...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish & Poi
In ancient Hawaii, chiefs managed the economy by creating a land division system, the Ahupua'a, which divided the islands into pie slice shapes. Each Ahupua'a covered the three main regions of the islands: the mountains, the valleys, and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Motherland: Lesson Plan: Family Planning
Engaging youth in discussions about family planning is difficult for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the general discomfort adolescents have talking with adults about sex. Sometimes it can be easier to talk about...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Mexico, 1872
A map from 1872 of Mexico, showing states and state capitals, major cities, towns, and ports, railroads, lakes and rivers, mountain systems, terrain, and coastal features. Steamship routes to major ports are shown, with distances marked...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1858
A map from 1858 of North America showing the boundaries at the time for Russian America (Alaska), Greenland, British America or New Britain, Canada East and Canada West, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Southern China, 1912
A map from 1912 of the southern China provinces at the end of the ruling Qing Dynasty.The map shows the political divisions at the time, province capitals and major cities, ports, railways, rivers, coastal features and islands of the...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Central America, 1914
A map from 1914 of Central America showing political boundaries at the time, capitals and major cities, railroads, steamship routes with distances between major ports given in nautical miles, submarine telegraph cables, mountain systems...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Panama Canal, 1920
A map from 1920 of the Panama Canal showing the Canal Zone boundaries, the channel route from Colon to the city of Panama, railroad route, lakes, reservoirs, locks, and towns along the canal. A chart at the top of the map shows the...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fax
A torch. In the annexed woodcut, the female figure is copied from a fictile vase. The winged figure on the left hand, asleep and leaning on a torch, is from a funeral monument at Rome. The other winged figure represents Cupid as Lethaus...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1858
Map of Africa in 1858, prior to the extensive European colonization of the continent established at the Berlin Conference of 1885. This map shows the European possessions of the Cape Colony, Natal, and Orange River Free State, and the...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Australia, 1885
A map of Australia in 1885 showing the states and territories of Australia at the time, including Nuyts Land, De Witt Land and Tasman Land in Western Australia, Arnhem land, Alexandra Land in North Australia, Queensland, South Australia,...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northern China, 1912
A map from 1912 of the northern Chinese provinces at the end of the ruling Qing Dynasty. The map shows the political boundaries of the time, foreign possessions, provincial capitals, major cities, ports, railways, steamship routes with...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Mexico, 1885
A map from 1885 of Mexico showing the states and state capitals, major cities and towns, existing and proposed railroads, steamship routes with distances and travel times between major ports given, mountain systems, rivers, lakes, and...