CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Dilation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces dilations and how to find scale factors. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...
PBS
Pbs: Nova: A Sense of Scale
Students can use this interactive tool to explore a Mandelbrot set of fractals. As they increase magnification up to 250,000,000 times, they keep returning to an image similar to the one they started with.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How Big Is Our Universe?
This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Alberta Airphoto Collection, 1922 1956
The Alberta Airphoto Collection consists of around 30,000 public domain images from the University of Calgary Library's collection of airphotos. The images cover urban areas at various scales and years between 1924 and 1952. These...
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.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Raptor Scale
This picture shows a size scale of different types of raptors as they stand next to an average sized human being. The raptors include the Velociraptor, Deinonychus and Utahraptor.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Scale Weight
The scale weight was used to weigh an amount of approximately 500 grams. It is engraved with the name of "Al-Qasim Ibn 'Ubaid Allah 'Aydi Muslim Ibn Al-'Arraf(Al-qasim Ibn ?aba?d Allah ?aydi Muslim Ibn Al-?araf)" and the date of 117...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Scale Weight of Green Glass
A scale weight of green glass is in the form of a circle with a round base. It was used as a standard for measuring different weights.
Curated OER
Scaled Quail, Male
Discover interesting facts and listen to the sounds of the Scaled Quail on this effective site. Cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, and reproduction are the topics discussed.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Scaled Quail
Discover interesting facts and listen to the sounds of the Scaled Quail on this effective site. Cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, and reproduction are the topics discussed.
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Scaled Quail, Female
Discover interesting facts and listen to the sounds of the Scaled Quail on this effective site. Cool facts, description, range, habitat, food, and reproduction are the topics discussed.
Other
Kidstorm: Hurricanes
Get the facts on hurricanes with this detailed information page. This page includes photos, charts and satellite images.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Plas Tic
This is a multimedia educational resource. Some of the topics are: volume and space, computer imaging, techniques for drawing and painting and proportion and scale in art. It is divided into four different levels.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lab 2: What's a Watershed?
Students build a physical model to simulate watershed features, then use Google Earth software to tie the model to a real place. By exploring several layers of map-based images and data, students learn the complexity of a watershed and...
Other
University of Wisconsin Green Bay: Faults and Earthquakes
This site is primarily set up as an outline and is loaded with graphs, maps, and images. It covers a variety of earthquake-related topics, such as what causes earthquakes, fault lines and structures, seismology, a historical look at...
Other
Pelagic Shark Research: Biology of Sharks
This page is an excellent resource with horn shark information. Numerous images of the horn shark are featured.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Stained Glass: History and Technique
During the Gothic period and the Renaissance (1100s-1500s) stained glass was one of the foremost techniques of painting practiced in Europe. It may seem surprising to call stained glass a form of painting, but in fact it is. Look closely...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Engineer a Satellite
In this lesson, learners will construct a scale model of a satellite by researching what scientific instrument to put on it and how to power it.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Geologic Time
This is a nice explanation of geologic time and Earth's major eras. Although this site is designed for younger students, it is mostly text with few images.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Dilation in the Coordinate Plane
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept explores graphing a dilation given a description of the dilation. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Made in America: The High Cost of Fashion
Investigate data on changes over time in where our apparel is made and how much we spend on it in these images from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and graph the data. They also look for...
Curated OER
University of Oregon: Temperature Scales
This site from the University of Oregon provides information on the three temperature scales in use today--Farenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Historical information is given on the discovery of the scales along with information on the...
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Web Gallery of Art: Man Scaling Fish
An image of "Man Scaling Fish", created by Quiringh Van Brekelenkam from 1660-65 (Oil on panel, 21 x 19 cm).