TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Balancing Act
Students are given the opportunity to visualize and interact with concepts they have already learned, specifically algebraic equations and solving for unknown variables. Students construct a balancing seesaw system (LEGO Balance Scale)...
Science Museum of Minnesota
Thinking Fountain: The Balance
An easy-to-make, easy-to-use balance that is a great introduction for the elementary student.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Weighing Scale
Definition and explanation of a weighing scale. Includes balances, spring scales, hydraulic scales, and electronic scales.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Balance When Adding and Subtracting
An interactive scale shows you how to deal with numbers and variables when solving simple algebraic equations.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train Chow Time
Feed the hungry dinosaurs but make sure they are getting the right amount! Click and drag food to the scale until it's balanced.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hydrogen Oxygen Reaction Lab
This lab exercise exposes students to a potentially new alternative energy source-hydrogen gas. Student teams are given a hydrogen generator and an oxygen generator. They balance the chemical equation for the combustion of hydrogen gas...
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.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Scale Box With Scales
This box is for keeping a scale and weights. It contains a sliding rule of two levels, carved and divided to contain balances.
Starfall
Starfall: Weight
In this interactive, students weigh a rabbit, frog, and kangaroo by adding blocks to the scales until they are exactly even.
SMART Technologies
Smart: May the Forces of Push and Pull Be With You!
Read, brainstorm, drag objects, erase to reveal answers, and move weights on a balance scale to learn about forces, mass, gravity, weight, and balance in this activity created by SMART.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Mass and Weight: What's the Difference?
Explanation of the differences between mass and weight.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Basics of Equations
This tutorial from WyzAnt contains a walk-through of the basics of solving algebraic equations. Examples are given and the tutorial ends with an interactive worksheet that contains an answer key.
Curated OER
Diagram
A very descriptive site about sound balancing, including diagrams and illustrations to help you understand what sound balancing is.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mechanics Mania
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called "mechanics." The study of mechanics is...
Other
Louvre Museum: A Closer Look at the Titeux Dancer
Media-rich module examines a terracotta figurine that embodies many characteristics of classical Greek sculpture. Expert commentary accompanied by animated overlays demonstrate details of the composition that give it harmony, balance,...
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: Messenger: Planet Mass Comparison
Compare the masses of planets in this interactive animation. Simply pile a number of Earths on one side of the scale, to balance with the mass of one Jupiter. Then try this with all the planets.
Curated OER
Congressional Scales, a True Balance
This is a large site from American Treasures covering primary source documents from the early 1800s through the Civil War and on to Western Expansion.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Libra
A balance, a pair of scales. The principal parts of this instrument were: 1. The beam. 2. The two scales, called in Latin lances. The beam was made without a tongue, being held by a ring or other appendage, fixed in the centre. The...
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