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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Atomic Theory and Structure: Quantum Numbers and Orbitals

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanation of advanced atomic theory using The Schrodinger equation.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Atomic Theory: Wave Particle Duality and the Electron

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of advanced atomic theory based on developed concepts from earlier scientific experimentation.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Temperature, Kinetic Theory, and the Gas Laws: Glossary

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a glossary of terms and definitions used in Chapter 13: Temperature, Kinetic Theory, and the Gas Laws from the AP Physics online text.
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Other

Teaching and Learning Resources: Learning Theories

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Presents a table comparing three major learning theories - behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Lists major theorists for each, the role of the teacher, key ideas, how learning happens, the place of educational technology,...
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Education.com

Education.com: Information Processing Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explains and compares the three types of memory in the information processing model, which are sensory, working, and long-term memory. Implications for teaching are also outlined.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Ideal Gas Law

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to state the ideal gas law in terms of molecules and in terms of moles; use the ideal gas law to calculate pressure change, temperature change, volume change, or the number of molecules or...
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Learning Wave Communications

Learning Wave: Commutative and Associative Properties of Multiplication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides information about the commutative and associative properties of multiplication.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Natural Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Review this site for the definition of "natural law" based on varying theories with respect to morality in determining the authority of legal norms. Contents of the writing cover Two Kinds of Natural Law, Conceptual Naturalism,...
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Two migration theories are on the table for consideration. Weigh the evidence of each one in this article by Donald Johanson of Lucy fame.
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Other

Project Foundry: Project Based Learning Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Choosing an end product for PBL can be challenging due to the sheer number of possibilities. To encourage high-level products, it is beneficial to know students' interests and learning styles. The following product grid categorizes...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molecular Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th
An advanced explanation of the valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory describes specific molecular models involving digonal, trigonal, tetrahedral, and octahedral coordination, as well as central atoms with five bonds....
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Indiana University

Ensi: Introduction to Evolution Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit plan presented by the Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes is one way to introduce evolution. The authors have created a Pre-test about what evolution is/is not to address misconceptions. There are handouts and...
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York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: The Vectors of Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
This site goes into detail about Spearman's two factor theory. From the classic paper "The Vectors of Mind" by L. L. Thurstone (1934) Address of the president before the American Psychological Association, Chicago meeting, September, 1933.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Science, Optics & You: Albert Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), one of the most famous physicists of the last century, best known for his theory of relativity.
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Other

Univ. Of Mississippi: Critical Approaches to Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are nine common critical approaches to the study of literature based on X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Literature: An Introductionto Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.
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Other

Sacred Sites: Easter Island

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed report on one of the world's most famous, yet least visited archaeological sites, Easter Island. This site covers many of the theories surrounding the island, ancient and recent history and has some great pictures.
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Thomas Bayes

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on Thomas Bayes, mathematician who worked on the theory of probability.
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Other

Simply Psychology: Language Acquisition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides an overview of the theories of language acquisition put forward by B.F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky. Includes two videos.
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A&E Television

History.com: What Was the Scopes Trial Really About?

For Students 9th - 10th
The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal. The trial featured two of the...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Personality Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on the psychology of personality gives information on the two traditional models, discusses the "N" and "S" personality types, and briefly mentions criticisms leveled at the two models.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: James Clerk Maxwell

For Students 9th - 10th
James Clerk Maxwell was one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. His theoretical work on electromagnetism and light largely determined the direction that physics would take in the early twentieth century. Indeed,...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Euclid's Theorems

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MathWorld.com provides a description of the theorems of Euclid and his theories of prime and composite numbers.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do We Dream?

For Students 9th - 10th
Amy Adkins reveals the top seven reasons why we might dream. [5:38]
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Other

Lebensraum: Living Space for the German Race

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides a discussion of the concept of "Lebensraum," or "living space" for the German people. This was one of Hitler's main justifications for his military conquests.

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