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Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot!: Napoleon's Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
Site that describes in detail Napoleon's theorem. To understand this site be sure you understand what the centroid of an object is. The site describes polygons in terms of the roots of unity of a function. The page gives an interactive...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Triangle Explorer

For Students 9th - 10th
This applet gives you practice finding the area of a triangle. Great place for students to "discover" how you find the area of a triangle. Directions are just a click away. [Requires Java.]
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Quia

Quia: Fact or Opinion?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a 30 question quiz on separating fact from opinion. Students read the statement and select fact or opinion. Java plugin is required.
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Other

Building Houses With Side Views

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this resource, 2-D views and 3-D figures are explored. Students build houses consisting of cubes using the given top, front, and right views. [Requires Java.]
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Other

Freidenthal Instituut: Guess the View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are given a 3-D view of an object and then given a 2-D view of the object. Students must choose which of 6 views is being displayed from a list. This applet consists of 20 practice problems. [Requires Java.]
Graphic
Other

3 D Object Viewer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use this applet to explore different 3-D objects. Different objects can be chosen, rotated, and viewed from a variety of sides. [Requires Java.]
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Other

Coloring 3 D Sides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use the colored portion of the 2-D drawings to color the correct face of the 3-D model. This applet consists of 20 problems. [Requires Java.]
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Other

Coloring 2 D Sides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners use the colored portion of the 3-D object to color the correct side of the 2-D drawing. This applet consists of 20 problems. [Requires Java.]
Handout
Other

University of Arkansas: Kinetic Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
A little background and a great Java applet that allows you to see the distribution of particles by their velocity.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Matching: Literary Devices

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This matching game has students match examples of literary devices (yellow boxes) with the terms (blue boxes). There are multiples of each, but each set is matched to a specific box. Java is required.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Capitalization: Rags to Riches

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is a capitalization and punctuation game for early readers. Students win gold stars for selecting the correct answers. The game is available in Java or HTML versions.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Concentration: Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This game asks students to match literary devices (similes, metaphors, personification, slang/dialect and allusions) with their examples while remembering where they are located behind covered squares. Java is required.
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Foucault's Disk

For Students 9th - 10th
Leon Foucault, a French physicist much better known for his pendulum demonstrating the rotation of the Earth, also created in 1855 a device that illustrated how eddy currents work. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (Ft Icr)

For Students 9th - 10th
FT-ICR is a powerful type of mass spectrometry, co-invented by the Magnet Lab's Alan Marshall, particularly suited to identifying heavy molecules. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Galvanometer

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial illustrates how a galvanometer, an instrument that detects and measures small amounts of current in an electrical circuit, works. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Guitar Pickup

For Students 9th - 10th
Keith Richards and Eric Clapton owe their fame and fortune (in part) to electromagnetic induction. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Emf in Inductors

For Students 9th - 10th
Electromotive Force (EMF) and its sidekick, back EMF, are interesting electromagnetic phenomena that aren't really forces at all. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Electromagnetic Deflection in a Cathode Ray Tube, Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Many people interact with cathode ray tubes for part, if not most, of the day without having a clue how they work. Here's the inside scoop. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Electromagnetic Deflection in a Cathode Ray Tube, I

For Students 9th - 10th
Discovering how cathode rays behave in a magnetic field was a big step forward for scientists trying to understand the mysterious phenomenon. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Faraday's Ice Pail

For Students 9th - 10th
Out of a humble ice pail the great experimentalist Michael Faraday created a device to demonstrate key principles of attraction, repulsion and electrostatic induction. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Faraday Motor

For Students 9th - 10th
Just a year after electromagnetism was discovered, the great scientific thinker Michael Faraday figured out how to turn it into motion. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Electrostatic Generator

For Students 9th - 10th
Though simple by today's standards, the early electrostatic generators were a great milestone in humankind's understanding of electricity, allowing scientists to produce electricity so they could study it. (Java tutorial)
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Electromagnetic Induction

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1831, Michael Faraday carried out numerous experiments to prove that electricity could be generated from magnetism. He not only demonstrated electromagnetic induction, but also developed a good conception of the processes involved....
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Electricity Meter

For Students 9th - 10th
When electricity became available to the masses, utilities needed meters to record customer usage. This early 20th century model resembles many in use today. (Java tutorial)

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