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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
The site for Robert Smithson has everything you wanted to know about the Spiral Jetty and other works by Smithson.
PBS
Pbs Nova Online: Spin a Spiral Galaxy
PBS site provides various views of spiral galaxies. (Quick Time required) With this technology, you can manipulate the image to spin it around and look at it from various angles.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Critic: Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson
Information on the sculpture Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson. Includes an image of the sculpture, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the artist as well as a link to "Do More", a place to save or...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Spiraling Out
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson gives students further insight into the various spirals that can be graphed using polar equations. While the lesson assumes that students already have some background with polar...
Libre Text
Libre Text: Ekman Spiral and Transports
This article defines the basis of wind-driven circulation, including the Ekman spiral and transports.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Political Storms 1968 1980: Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
E-book page on the final era of the Vietnam War in which the Pentagon Papers were released, protest and conflict over the war increased at home and Nixon's Vietnamization began. Questions for discussion, glossary and link to primary...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spin a Spiral Galaxy
This interactive activity from NOVA Online lets you spin a spiral galaxy, including our own Milky Way. It demonstrates that what you can learn from visible light observations of a galaxy is largely determined by the angle from which you...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Spiral Galaxy as Never Seen Before
From ABC News in Science, this article covers information related to a photo of the largest spiral galaxy ever captured in a picture. The photo is taken of the Pinwheel galaxy.
NASA
Nasa: Spiral Galaxy
This Spiral Galaxy image is part of a series of photographs taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The picture is accompanied by a textual overview of a spiral galaxy with specific attention given to the details of the picture.
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Bi Directional Spiraled Poems
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage middle schoolers in writing twist poems. Examples of ideas for these types of poems are provided. Variations of twist poems are listed as a way to...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Dark Matter: How Does It Explain a Star's Speed?
Video describes how stars move in a spiral galaxy and how their speeds can be explained by accounting for dark matter. [3:17] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Find Center of Milky Way Galaxy Using Globular Star Clusters
The Milky Way is the edgewise view of our home galaxy, a disk made up of billions of stars. The Sun resides on one of the spiral arms of the disk, 30,000 light-years from the thick hub of the galaxy. The actual center, with a black hole...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Fraser Spiral Illusion, False Spiral
This optical illusion image is known as a Fraser spiral illusion, or false spiral. The black arcs appear to form a spiral when in fact they are a series of concentric circles.
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Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty"
View Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" provided by Art in Context Center for Communications.
Curated OER
A View on Cities: Hong Kong: Spiral Incense Sticks at Man Mo Temple
Spiral Incense sticks at Man Mo Temple (Hong Kong)
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Plant Spiral
The beauty of nature is seen clearly in this photo of a plant which forms a near perfect spiral as it curls up on itself. Its shape is highlighted even more by the black background which serves as a good contrast.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Spiral Shell
This image is of a beautiful spiral shaped shell.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: M81 Spiral Galaxy
An amazing photo of the M81 spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Golden Ratio Spiral
This image shows the golden ratio spiral with colors used to show the different sections.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: At a Snail's Pace for the Ti 73 Explorer
It is hard to imagine a way to mathematically describe a spiral. Spirals are commonly seen in nature. There are a number of different types of spirals. Some interesting examples include the spiral arrangements of scales in pine cones,...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Nature, the Golden Ratio, and Fibonacci, Too
Looks at how spirals form in nature when cells reproduce in a flower, for example. An interactive lets students try entering different values to see if they can make a spiral pattern with no gaps. The correct figure would be the Golden...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Trawling for an Intersection
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is designed to draw a connection between polar and parametric equations, as well as to expose students to the Trawler Problem (involving a fast boat chasing a slower boat which...
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University of Cambridge Cosmology: Galaxies
This site from the University of Cambridge allows you to view information on spiral, elliptical, and Milky Way galaxies, as well as galaxy clusters. Provides basic facts about each one.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Structure of a Hurricane
This site has general information on the structure of a hurricane. There are links to the eye, eye wall, spiral rain bands, and the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Danger Potential Scale.
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