In this activity, Students can use the graphing calculator to solve a differential equation. The resulting function is a logistic curve that gives the number of people infected with the flu "t" days after winter break.

Students model the growth of a population and compare ideal growth with a population whose growth is limited. They use technology to find exponential and logistic regression equations and use them to plot models.

This resource provides information about the uses and effectiveness of the email system. Includes information about writing emails, logistics, courtesies, and perspectives.

In this task, students are shown a table of population data for the city of London and are asked to explore whether a linear, quadratic, or exponential function would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. They are next...

An interview with Sandra Olsen, a zooarchaeologist studying the history of horses in Kazakhstan. Discover what zooarchaeologists work on in the interview.

This site from Richland Community College contains specific examples of where logarithmic and exponential formulas are used, including: exponential growth and decay, Gaussian, logistics growth, and logarithmic.

Interview with paleontologist Mark Norell provides insights into his research interests, his career preparation, and his ideas about a range of paleontology-related topics.

The presidency of Bil Clinton was marked by great success and also a scandal leading to impeachment. Understand the logistics of his presidency by reading the following summary, answering critical thinking questions, using the...

This lesson ties the preceding lessons together and brings young scholars back to the grand challenge question on MRI safety. During this lesson, students focus on the logistics of magnetic resonance imaging as well as the MRI hardware....

This brief, developed for the Center on Student Progress Monitoring by Kathleen McLane, explains factors that you must consider before implementing student progress monitoring in your school. Three main issues are discussed, including:...

This interactive site offers students resource for learning about composers, their works, the logistics of orchestra seating, the functions of different instruments, and the like.

An article by Alexender Wenk who is Head Of Logistics at Stadler Rail. The focus is on business management approaches and how we need to incorporate systems thinking in order to successfully deal with all the complexities and challenges...

An index of all major manned missions into space. A great resource and starting point.

This resource describes the occupations pertaining to aircraft mechanics. Learn about the work environment and expected salary.

This resource provides information on the salaries, working conditions and job prospects for diesel technicians who work on heavy transportation and equipment.

Meet the Function Family! Each member of the family has examples of their graphs and descriptions of the types of real-world situation that produce those graphs.

The Port of Baltimore is extensively covered with interviews, stories, interactive opportunities, and details about specific careers associated with the large harbor's transportation system that supports much of Maryland.

Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.

In this lesson plan, middle schoolers learn about the necessity of managing the herd size and grazing rights of the cattle in East Africa. [6.01]

Resource describes jobs in the maritime industry, ways to get training for various career paths in the industry, and employment opportunities. Links to Maritime Museum websites are included.

Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering the environment size (similar...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize limiting factors to the population growth and understand how the factors influence the growth in poplution.

In this activity, the students will predict the national debt by using logistic growth. The students will find the current national debt and use it to make their predictions.

Before pilots ever step behind the controls of a real jet they've already logged thousands of virtual air miles. It might not qualify you to fly a real jumbo jet, but you too, can learn the logistics of aviation by experimenting with the...