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Morningside College: Keyword Searching: Advanced Search Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about how to use advanced techniques when searching for information online. Covers the use of wildcard symbols, truncation, proximity searching, and how to combine tools.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Alpha: Dodecahedron

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation investigates vertex truncation of a dodecahedron.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Alpha: Octahedron

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation explores edge truncation of an octahedron and cube edges.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Alpha: Tetrahedron Edges

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation explores edge truncation of a tetrahedron.
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Drawing the Football

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the shape, symmetry and surface structure of a football (or soccer ball, depending on your nationality) to see how this understanding can help one draw these sorts of complex shapes.
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Ck 12: Geometry: Surface Area and Volume of Cones

For Students 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use a formula and given information to find the surface area of cones and truncated cones.
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Shapes Platonic and Archimedean Solids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The 'Platonic solids' are three-dimensional shapes formed by putting together identical regular faces. Every corner and every edge is identical to every other corner and edge. There are five such 'solids': the tetrahedron, cube,...
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Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These quick tips will work with almost any search engine. Do the assignments to practice the techniques that are presented.
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Wes Tech Vision: Cross Platform Computing

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores some of the vocabulary terms associated with "cross platform computing" and highlight several of the software and hardware solutions which permit files and software applications to be shared between computers with...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Alpha: Cube Octahedron Vertices

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation investigates a cube and a regular octahedron.

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