A guide to support parents as they work with their students with area, surface area, and volume problems.

Activity to show student how rockets reach high altitudes.

This site from the Virtual Sun gives a detailed account of the geographical region once inhabited by the Maya People. It describes the landscape, climate, and altitude.

Describes the role that the eustachian tube plays in maintaining pressure in the middle ear, during flight in an airplane or other changes in altitude and pressure. Tells why your ears pop more on the descent than on the ascent of a flight.

A calculator that computes air density if altitude, temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure are known.

The David Clark Company outlines the history of their "Crew Protective Equipment". Good images and information on their suits is available here. Information is available on the following equipment.Anti-G Suits used by allied fighter...

This site contains a wealth of problems that deal with the basic definitions of medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors or the defining characteristics of the different types of triangles. There are also...

Use this calculator to find the unknown angles in a right triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem. Once you know the sides you can calculate the perimeter, semiperimeter, area, and the altitudes.

Use this calculator to find the sides, perimeter, area, semiperimeter, and altitude of an isosceles triangle.

In this rocket experiment, students will investigate the question, "Which amount of water will cause the rocket to stay in the air the longest?" Students will compare how long the rocket was in the air with how much water was in the...

This lesson shows the parts of the atmosphere and their size (thickness) relative to the size of the Earth. It includes background information, lesson outline, links to standards and assessments.

Explores triangles and related vocabulary through examples and a video lesson.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers boiling point.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about climates. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the pressure and density of the atmosphere varies.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the pressure and density of the atmosphere varies.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key processes that determine the type of climate. Includes several questions to check for understanding.

In this lesson plan, 6th graders will develop and use models to exemplify the properties of the atmosphere and the relative scale in relation to the size of Earth.

This site from MathWorld provides a diagram of a triangle with its orthocenter labeled. The site details how to find the orthocenter with links to the key terms. The site details many other interesting properties of the triangle...

Site from NASA contains a collection of 91 questions pertaining to the Earth's atmosphere, magnetic field, ionosphere, rotation and origin of life.

Excellent resource for "paper-plate" activities that help simplify various astronomy topics. Learn how to build a "Moon Finder" and "Planet Pointer," and create a paper-plate model that explains the Transit of Venus.

This lesson presents the idea that the area of any right triangle is exactly half of a certain rectangle, and contains varied exercises for learners.

Dr. Math offers a way to calculate the altitude of a triangle using only the lengths of the sides of the triangle. He briefly explains how this was used by the Egyptians long ago.

This site from the Virtual Sun gives a detailed account of the geographical region once inhabited by the Maya People. It describes the landscape, climate, and altitude.