Curated OER
Aquatic Insects: Water Quality Index & Diversity Index
Pupils search stream beds to study the life cycle and adaptations of stream insects. They explore creeks and streams to see the diversity index of creeks or streams and to find the water qualit index.
Curated OER
The Rumblin' Road
Students determine the distance to a lightning strike. They complete a number of examples that determine the distance to a thunderstorm or lightning strike. They focus on safety during a thunderstorm.
Curated OER
Using Authentic Texts to Teach Vocabulary
Students read an article identifying any new vocabulary words they are unfamiliar with. Using the text, they discover antonyms, synonyms and word families. They answer comprehension questions and review the vocabulary to end the lesson.
Curated OER
Parched! No Water, No Town
Students discuss the benefits of water conservation. Given a data sheet, they document their water usage over a specified period. Water usage data is graphed and analyzed. Students discuss ways in which they can conserve water.
Curated OER
Planting the Seed
Learners plant their seeds and collect and organize their own materials for planting. They also set up their planters with wicks, fertilizer, potting mix, and seeds. Finally, students write their names on planter markers with a ball...
Curated OER
What's on Your Plate?
Young scholars demonstrate the path of food in the body. In this biology lesson, students conduct an experiment to determine how large the the digestive system is. They name the different organs involved in the digestive process.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Wilmington: Graphs of Functions
Defining the graph of a function, vertical line test, characteristics of graphs, approximating relative extrema, and even and odd functions are covered with examples that include charts and graphs.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Finding Extreme Values
In this activity, students can use symbolic algebra and graphing to find the extreme values for a polynomial function.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Project: Extreme Makeover, Webpage Edition
Finding webpages that are jQuery and then modifying them.
Other
Quick Math: Quadratic Equations
Complete step-by-step investigation of quadratic functions, allowing the user to input the function. Each step, from solving f(x) = 0 to graphing and finding extreme points, is covered in depth, via links for each step (requires...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Absolute Minima & Maxima (Closed Intervals)
Find absolute minimum/maximum points of continuous functions over closed intervals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Absolute Minima & Maxima (Entire Domain)
Find absolute minimum/maximum points of continuous functions over their entire domain.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Maclaurin Series
This page provides the Maclaurin Series for math, which is derived from the Taylor Series. Also provides an extremely helpful list of Maclaurin Series for many common functions along with a useful search engine.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wwics: Congressional Oversight: Rules of the Road Less Traveled
This extremely well-written article is a thorough description of the powers, responsibilities and inherent problems of the current congressional oversight system. It is easily read and well organized. (Oct. 24, 2004)
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Procedimiento Para Analizar Una Funcion
Use this unit to learn and practice the general procedure for representing curves in the form y=f(x). It provides a more advanced look at polynomial and rational functions with interactive graphs.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Fore Brain or Prosencephalon
This site from Bartleby.com contains an intense, in-depth article from Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body on the fore-brain or prosencephalon. The article discusses the thalamus throughout and touches on its functions as a whole.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Absolute Extrema
This activity involves finding the absolute extrema on a closed interval of a function.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Lewis and Clark Barter With Native Americans
In this lesson you will define the term barter and give examples of bartering in several different areas. Find out how this system took shape and was useful to Lewis and Clark. This site is extremely informative and contains extension...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Happened to Your Eye?
This is a virtual lab that investigates the effects of damage to eye muscles and nerves on the motion of the eyes. This lab is extremely realistic. This activity can be done as a whole class or as a demonstration.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Extremum Test
With this site one may understand how to test a point in a function for a relative minimum, maximum, saddle point, or none of these, by taking derivatives of the function. Explains and performs what is known as the "Extremum Test."
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Minimum
This site from Mathworld.com defines the minimum of a function and set.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Basics of Proportions
This tutorial from WyzAnt on proportions describes in detail the functions of proportions and includes several examples to demonstrate how to solve proportions. The tutorial is concluded with an interactive worksheet that allows for...
Other
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Inside Cancer
Multimedia guide to cancer provided by Dolan DNA Learning Center. The site is extremely comprehensive and is divided into four main segments:Hallmarks of Cancer,Causes and Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment, and Pathways to Cancer. The...