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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Science Careers: Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairer

For Students 9th - 10th
With so many specialized pieces of equipment used in a multitude of areas, there is a great need for someone with the specialized knowledge to repair these many types of equipment. From repairing cameras to medical equipment to piano...
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Yale University

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments: String Instruments

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about string instruments in this image gallery with descriptions of some of the most common string instruments.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Brass Instruments Work

For Students 9th - 10th
What gives the trumpet its clarion ring and the tuba its gut shaking oompah-pah? And what makes the trombone so jazzy? Al Cannon shows how these answers lie not in the brass the instruments are made of, but in the journey that air takes...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energetic Musical Instruments

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will learn to apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. The students must choose from a variety of...
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Arizona State University

Arizona State University: What Was the Omnitonic Horn?

For Students 9th - 10th
This Arizona State article suggests that the omnitonic horn and valved horns were invented in the same era and for the same reasons. However, further reading points out the differences between the two. The explanation for their invention...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson covers concepts of energy and energy transfer utilizing energy transfer in musical instruments as an example. More specifically, the lesson explains the two different ways in which energy can be transferred between a system...
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Other

Guide to Early Instruments the Crumhorn and Rackett

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the history of the crumhorn and rackett. It also describes briefly how the instruments were crafted.
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Other

Radixnet: Musical Instruments Described

For Students 9th - 10th
Site to all instruments of the renaissance period. Gives a little information on the instruments.
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Other

What Are Historical Keyboard Instruments

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about historical keyboard instruments such as the clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano and organ.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sas Triangle Congruence

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity will help students visualize the construction of congruent triangles and conceptualize properties through measurement and movement of their construction. Students will need access to the TI-84 Plus Family.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering Ohm's Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use voltage and current probes to investigate Ohm's Law. The students collect data and use their graphing calculators to perform data analysis and "discover" Ohm's Law.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sss Triangle Congruence

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will use their TI-84 Plus and Cabri Jr to investigate SSS triangle congruence.
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Other

Historical Musical Instruments: Renaissance Recorders

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents information on early Renaissance recorders and their construction. Includes link to audio and video recordings.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Domain and Range of Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity will allow the students to determine the domain and range of many different graphs presented to them through TI-Navigator using the activity center.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformations of Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses student's knowledge of transformations of exponential functions. Writing exponential functions that model growth and decay are also explored.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Birthday Scatter Plot

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will be able to interpret a scatter plot to see if there is a relationship between the two variables.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Risky Business

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore odds ratios and risk ratios. Framed in the context of a possibly contaminated playground on which children who play show signs of toxic exposure, students...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Relationship Between Radius and Tangent to a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Generalize that a tangent and a radius form a 90-degree angle.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Probability as Relative Frequency

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use simulation to justify the concept of the Law of Large Numbers. They understand that as the sample size increases, the relative frequency of which an event occurs approaches the probability of that event...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Exponential Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of exponential growth, especially in comparison to linear growth. This is done in the context of weekly allowances, in which one group earns a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Election Night With Percent

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students will be working primarily with the concept of % of a number. They will calculate the number of people expected to vote when given the population and % of registered voters along with historical data on percentage of voter...
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Other

The Proactive Coping Inventory (Pci): A Multidimensional Research Instrument

For Students 9th - 10th
Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference of Stress and Anxiety Research Society describing the development of a new psychometric tool, the Proactive Coping Inventory.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using the Cbl 2 & Ti Navigator to Model Sinusoidal Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The teacher will use the CBL 2 and attached probes to generate sinusoidal data. Using TI-Navigator, the teacher will send the data to the students, and the students will try to find a sine curve to model the given data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Constant Rate of Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This StudyCard stack is a teaching activity that demonstrates that the constant rate of change idea is present in many situations outside the mathematics classroom.

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