Multi-media lesson in which learners consider the concept of censorship and analyze the merits of censorship versus freedom of information while learning about the protests in Beijing in 1989. Note: Some video content may not load in...

Texas is famous for its cattle ranches, and all those cattle produce a lot of manure. Texans are working on projects to harness the energy in manure in various ways. Dry manure has been and continues to be burned for heating and cooking....

This website offers current, sophisticated, topic-specific environmental research on the political and ethical consequences of not building a sustainable environment. From leading scientists to news about law and politics, the website...

In this problem you will have a tank of fluid get punctured and you will need to find the landing location of the fluid. The tank in which the fluid is housed is pressurized above the value of the atmospheric pressure.

Dodge the tanks by solving division problems correctly.

Model the trajectory of the longest home run ever hit while studying extrema of functions on the TI-89. Another real-world problem in this activity involves minimizing the amount of tin used in a cylindrical tank. Following the worked...

Students determine the molecular weight of a pure gas in a balloon by using gas laws and trapping the gas in a glass bottle. Students watch the instructor demonstrate the lab on day one. On day two and three they practice the lab. On day...

Here's a project for studying compression waves in different soil types. It uses a homemade wave tank for solids, with a frequency generator, amplifier, and loudspeaker as the vibration source. There are lots of interesting possibilities...

Practice solving volume word problems involving objects like fish tanks, truck beds, and refrigerators. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

An July 2007 analysis of the proposed EU Reform Treaty by Ruth Lea, director of the Global Vision think tank and Charles Grant, director of the Centre For European Reform.

Determine the landing location of a stream of water that comes out of a tank that has a hole punched in the side.

Solve division problems to destroy enemy tanks and defend your base! Contents: Division facts to 12

Solve division problems to destroy enemy tanks and defend your base!

The carrying capacity of a trout production unit depends on fish size and water quality factors such as oxygen content, temperature, water flow and volume. Most commercial trout farms in the South use rectangular concrete tanks in...

Homepage of a nonprofit think tank dedicated to climate and air quality policy issues.

The purpose of this fourth task in a series of four is to find the volume of an irregular 3D solid by using Archimedes' Principle. Students must calculate the volume of the displaced water in a rectangular prism tank in order to solve...

The purpose of this third task in a series of four is to find the height of water in a rectangular prism tank when the volume is known. All units are metric. Aligns with 6.G.A.2.

In this activity, students will observe that a change in the temperature of air will determine its place in the atmosphere. Water, which behaves very similarly to air, is used in this demonstration. It flows in fluid currents in a visual...

Minutes after its take off from New York's Kennedy International Airport, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris exploded midair over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, leaving all 230 people aboard dead. The...

A sophisticated and in-depth research document suitable for senior students needing a primary study in the benefits of the Kyoto Protocol to Canada's economic competitiveness. A large Adobe PDF document is clickable and downloadable. The...

Online university physics text called "Hyperphysics". Three sections here: Capacitors, Capacitor Combinations, Charge on Series Capacitors. These are nice clean lessons, good illustrations, many hotwords to assist. A fine online lesson,...

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This site from The Museum of Science includes modern machines that Leonardo da Vinci first designed. Original sketches of Leonardo's machines also included.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational about people in a South American village who needed clean water to drink. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.