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Curated OER

Fuel and Air Relationships

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners use EngineSim and information found on the World Wide Web to complete the activity on the relationship between the atmosphere and jet fuel. They discover how much air is required to pass through a jet engine.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wing Specifications

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders use FoilSim to fulfill the specifications of a given airfoil (wing) and plot and interpret graphs.
Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Expression Exchange

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive simulation that teaches about equivalent, evaluating, and simplifying expressions through games and exercises building coin expressions. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts,...
Activity
Math Slice

Math Slice

For Students 9th - 10th
More than three dozen math games, exercises and tools help students sharpen their math skills in engaging, interactive exercises. There are also a few literacy games available from this page.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Least Squares Regression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Create your own scatter plot or use real-world data and try to fit a line to it. Explore how individual data points affect the correlation coefficient and best-fit line.
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NASA

Klass: Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System (KLASS) program is an exciting way to bring the space shuttle program into your classroom. If you are looking for creative ways to develop STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)...
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NASA

Nasa Smartskies: Line Up With Math: Math Based Decisions in Air Traffic Control

For Students 9th - 10th
In association with NASA, LineUp With Math presents problem sets which 'enable students to explore and apply decision-making and reasoning skills, specifically to resolve distance-rate-time conflicts in air traffic control'. An...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Simulations Can You Design an Experiment?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders will be able to design and conduct their own simulation to determine the probability of an event.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Area Builder

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Create shapes using colorful blocks, and explore the relationship between perimeter and area. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.a Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Archery

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Use our interactivity to simulate picking up a bow and some arrows and trying to hit the target a few times. Can you work out the best settings for the sight? This activity gives an opportunity to gather and collate data, and to test...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Graphing Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The Math Forum provides chat areas, simulations, JAVAapplets, problems, answers, puzzles, quizzes and tutoring! Links are also provided for additional information.
Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Projectile Motion With Angry Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze the path of a bird's flight as it attempts to obliterate pigs in the well-known game, Angry Birds. Comes with lab activities, a video, and a simulation. The latter requires software called Tracker, which is free to download.
Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Vector Addition Model

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Java applet simulation explores vector addition of two vectors in two dimensions. Given the magnitude and direction, students must determine the vector components.
Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Circular Well Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This downloadable java simulation models the 2D energy eigenstates of a particle trapped in a very deep two-dimensional circular well.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Scalar Field Gradient Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate scalar and vector fields though a downloadable java simulation. The simulation explores the gradient of a scalar field using a numerical approximation to the partial derivatives.
Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Minkowski Diagram Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation examining simultaneity and causality in special relativity by manipulating the space and time coordinates of one or two events.
Unit Plan
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Binomial Distribution Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable mathematics java simulation explores the binomial probability distribution model. The probability and number of trials can be changed to see the effect on the distribution model.
Activity
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Uniform Spherical Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The java simulation demonstrates methods for picking a random point on a sphere. Both the incorrect method of a uniform random distribution as well as the correct weighted distribution are shown.
Activity
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Random Number Generator Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This downloadable java simulation is an interactive linear congruent random number generator model. Students use paper and pencil to calculate the first few terms and then use the generator to check their calculations.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Harmonics and Fourier Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The downloadable interactive java simulation displays the sum of harmonics through a Fourier series to yield a new wave.
Activity
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Special Functions Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This downloadable java simulation shows a variety of special functions. Functions included are Legendre polynomials, Chebyshev polynomials, and Bessel functions.
Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Lorenz Attractor Periodic Orbits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation of a Lorenz attractor which is shaped like a butterfly. Manipulate the image and observe from all sides as the orbits about two fixed points are drawn.
Activity
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiple Coin Toss Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore flipping multiple coins through this downloadable java simulation. The complete results of the tossing experiment is shown on a graph of the cumulative probability of heads.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Trig Tour

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Take a tour of trigonometry using degrees or radians! Look for patterns in the values and on the graph when you change the value of theta. Compare the graphs of sine, cosine, and tangent.

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