Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sir Models
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how diseases, epidemics, etc. are tracked by health organizations. Using the SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model, students track the number of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Processes on Complex Networks
Building on their understanding of graphs, students are introduced to random processes on networks. They walk through an illustrative example to see how a random process can be used to represent the spread of an infectious disease, such...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Curb the Epidemic!
Using a website simulation tool, students build on their understanding of random processes on networks to interact with the graph of a social network of individuals and simulate the spread of a disease. They decide which two individuals...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Real Origin of the Franchise
In this video lesson, Sir Harold Evans describes the remarkable story of Martha Matilda Harper, a beauty salon owner who invented franchising, one of the most successful business models today. [5:49]
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856 1940)
This site provides a brief biography of the english physicist J.J. Thomson.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Battle of Naseby, June 14, 1645
A map of the Battle of Naseby on 14 June, 1645, near Broad Moore in Northamptonshire, England during the First English Civil War (1642-1646). The battle, between the Royalist army under King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model...