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Brainspire: To What Degree Is Technology and Social Change Related?

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discussing the impact of technology on different aspects of society. Looks at education, humanitarian needs, prevention of corruption, modernization, global technological shifts, Ogburn's theory of social change, the...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Piaget's Theory: One Cup of Water Is Less Than One Cup of Water

For Students 9th - 10th
In this human behavior science fair project, the student will learn about Piaget's developmental stages and the Theory of Conservation. The student will investigate the age at which children understand the equality of numbers and mass....
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Plate Tectonics: The Origin of Plate Tectonic Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Alfred Wegner's ideas relating to continental drift and seafloor spreading which are both evidence to the concept of plate tectonics.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Einstein "Relativity: The Special and General Theory"

For Students 9th - 10th
This page presents the actual text of Albert Einstein's book "Relativity: The Special and General Theory." Just click on the chapter titles to read the text.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
How are spacetime, dark matter and gravity related? In celebration of the centennial of Einstein's theory of general relativity, this video breaks it down. [3:04]
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom:einstein Theory of Special Relativity: Length Contraction

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the peculiar aspects of Einstein's theory of special relativity is that the length of objects moving at relativistic speeds undergoes a contraction along the dimension of motion. These animations depict this phenomena of length...
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Relativity Metric Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graphical visualization of how the relative motion of two events affects their spatial and temporal separation in special relativity.
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Special Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
A historical approach to special relativity, giving all the events and names in the history of discovery of special relativity. Many links to these individuals.
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: General Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
A somewhat labored but thorough explanation of general relativity, beginning with Aristotle. Many links to the personalities connected to the article.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: That's My Theory!

For Students 9th - 10th
Become a game show contestant in this online activity from A Science Odyssey and ask a series of questions to a panel of mystery scientists, using the answers to determine which scientist is Einstein.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: It's All Relative

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the 4th dimensions and the theory of relativity.There is no absolute, or "same," time and space. This means time and space are different for everyone! How you experience events in time and space depends on two important...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Graph Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an introduction and overview of graph theory. In addition to introducing the basic terms, there are related links to classic problems in graph theory such as the traveling salesman problem and Dijkstra's algorithm.
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Libre Text

Libre Text: Collision Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a summary of collision theory and its relation to reaction rate. It includes links to higher-level explanations.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive tutorial students explore special relativity and quantum mechanics. Learn basic tenets of the theory of special relativity and the relationship between mass and energy. Also discover the evidence for the particle...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto Libraries: Glossary of Literary Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A glossary of definitions for terms related to literary theory. Click each word in the glossary list and a definition with examples appears.
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Other

Topological Quantum Field Theory Club: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit the Topological Quantum Field Theory club's website. Find out about their organization and visit links to club events and other related topics.
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Other

Basic Music Theory: Bar or Measure

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is extremely valuable in that it describes topics in easy-to-understand language. Relatively easy to follow. Just use the hypertext links.
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Beginnings of Set Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of St. Andrews offers a wonderful introduction to set theory that makes the topic interesting and understandable. Includes numerous links to related philosophers, mathematicians, and topics.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Using Graph Theory to Analyze Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze dramatic works using graph theory. They gather data, record it in Microsoft Excel and use Cytoscape (a free, downloadable application) to generate graphs that visually illustrate the key characters (nodes) and...
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Special Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper Model

For Students 9th - 10th
A representation of Minkowski spacetime diagrams using graph paper that is rotated, showing the world lines of three stationary observers with light clocks.
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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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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1900 1909

For Students 9th - 10th
Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity and his theory on the quantum nature of light, which he identified as both a particle and a wave. With ever new appliances, electricity begins to transform everyday life.
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Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Time O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.

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