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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Darwin, Evolution, and Faith

For Students 9th - 10th
Can ancient scriptural accounts of the world's creation by God be reconciled with Darwin's new story? This article looks at three responses to this question: Conflict, Contrast, and Convergence.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: The Revolutionary Americas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find relationships among primary and secondary sources of information that identify where information from different sources converges and where it differs.
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University of California

Multimedia Reporting & Convergence: Digital Cameras

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete tutorial on digital cameras. Camera settings, battery types, memory cards and more are presented in a learning format.
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Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Comparison Test

For Students 9th - 10th
Visual Calculus briefly states the comparison test theorem with the proof and exercise solutions as links.
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University of California

Ucmp: Wegener (1880 1930)

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete biographical information with links to his theories. Contains links to interactives on plate tectonics.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: When Continents Collide

For Students 3rd - 8th
Material to begin an exploration of plate tectonics and mountain formation. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on metamorphic rocks and mountain building, and ideas for teaching this...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Thin Lens Equation

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an informative site from Georgia State University. It gives a discussion of the thin lens equation and an illustration of its use in determining the image distance based upon the object distance and the focal length.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Taylor Series

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson details the taylor series with a general description, formulas, and an explanation of its usage in mathematics. Content also includes a focus on the Taylor series as limits of Taylor polynomials, including two examples.
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Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on finding the fossil evidence for lithospheric plate tectonics. Inquiry-based exploration of plate tectonics evidence includes fossil distribution, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Evolutionary Biology: Evolution in Action

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientific article discussing the evolutionary processes involved when an insect species splits into two other distinct species. (Published: February 28, 2011)
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Oklahoma Mesonet

University of Oklahoma: High and Low Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Oklahoma meteorology tutorial explores both high and low pressure systems--how they form and the different forms they take.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Dynamic Earth: Slip, Slide, & Collide

For Students 9th - 10th
Looking for more information about plate tectonics and what happens at plate boundaries? This site gives definitions of all plate boundaries as well as animations to help visualize what is happening.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson you will learn about the theory of plate tectonics and the three types of plate boundaries that are responsible for Earth's geologic features.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Sequences and Series

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Hotmath provides 20 practice problems relating to sequences and series. Each of the practice problems include a step-by-step guide for solving.
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: How to Build a Model Illustrating Sea Floor Spreading

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive website featuring how to build a model that illustrates sea-floor spreading and subduction. It has diagrams and pictures reviewing major geological concepts.
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NASA

Nasa: Alfred Wegener

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent biography of Wegener that includes his breakthrough work and the storm of controversy it created. Finally, Alfred Wegener has gotten the praise and recognition he deserved.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: A Model of Three Faults

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students learn about the different kinds of faults and plate boundaries and where they can be found. They research and report on the faults that are present in their state. They are also asked to develop models of three...
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Evolving Planet: Tertiary

For Students 9th - 10th
Delve into the Tertiary Period portion of the Evolving Planet exhibit, and trace the climate and continental shift during this time. Includes an overview of the period, a collection of images, and a look at the Tertiary Period's...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain shows the relationship between tectonic boundaries and the locations of earthquake events and volcanoes around the world.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Concave and Convex Lenses

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students describe and predict image formation as a consequence of refraction through a thin convex lens.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Area of a Cone

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This question and answer site is about finding the area of a cone when the height and the angle at the convergence point are given. The site goes on to explain how a cone relates to a circle.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Pursuit Curve Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to pursuit curves, in which objects follow seemingly awkward paths due to other objects chasing it. In this lesson (which is technology intensive), students...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Taylor Polynomials

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn to define a Taylor polynomial approximation to a function f of degree n about a point x = a. They also learn to graph convergence of Taylor polynomials. They use Taylor polynomials to approximate function values.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Integral Test

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will demonstrate the use of the integral test to discuss the convergence of an infinite series.

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