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In-Line Inertia
Students practice calculating the moment of inertia when discussing a skater and the position in which it is best to spin. After class discussion, students practice calculating inertia on their own.
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Electrical Engineers for a Day
Learners build a robot out of a 3-¿¿ inch floppy disk drive, two floppy disks, and some other miscellaneous supplies. They apply information they gather about electrical circuits from a web-based circuit design program.
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Recognizing 4 major photojournalism techniques to improve quality and interest in pictures
High schoolers learn four basic techniques that enable them to not only tell the story, but also to make the viewer wonder what might have been left out of the photo.
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The Golden Rule of Reciprocity
Students compare and contrast versions of the "Golden Rule of Reciprocity" as it is stated in several major world religions. They write their own version of the rule.
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Do Suspected Enemies Have Rights?
Students investigate the history of Japanese immigration. They complete an online Webquest, explore various websites, answer discussion questions, and locate and read newspaper articles about enemy compatants.
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ESOL Transportation and Travel
Students identify safe driving practices and discuss new vocabulary to go along with it. They compare and contrast safe driving practices in the U.S. and the students' native countries.
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Ice Ain't Easy
Students are told that objects in contact with one another reach an equilibrium temperature. A hot object placed in a cool liquid always cool off. It never happens that the object gets hotter and cool liquid gets colder. Students predict...
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The Trig to Soccer
Students analyze angles applied to a penalty kick in a soccer game. Based on dimensions of the goal, and the penalty area, students determine where the better chance of scoring lies.
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Running with Momentum
Pupils discuss the conservation of momentum in a collision between two bumper cars and an explosion between a bullet and the rifle's kickback, as well as collisions occurring in 2 dimensions and how they are all expressed mathematically.
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Elastic Racquet
Students discover the science behind a tennis racket by looking at a simple toy that works in a similar way. After looking at the related mathematical equations, students experiment with the simple toy to find the spring constant k by...
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Breaking Energy
Students experiment with the amount of work required to break a piece of wood by hanging masses from a string attached to a thin dowel of wood. At the completion of activity, students calculate if a fast moving hand could break the dowel.
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Bouncing Basketballs
Pupils discover how the coefficient of restitution is applied to sports by measuring the bounciness of a ball. After examining the mathematical equation that applies to coefficient of restitution, students go to the gym, measure the COR...
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Vocabulary Review: Completing Sentences
For this vocabulary worksheet, learners check the word that will correctly complete a sentence, 7 sentences. Students choose from 4 words.
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Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this crossword puzzle instructional activity, students use the clues about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the words from the word box to complete the crossword puzzle.
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Definition of "Family" in Zoning Law and Building Codes
Site offers guidelines to writing a definition of Family for the purposes of zoning laws. Gives constitutionally permissible standards.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: 10: Keynes' Law and Say's Law in Aggregate Demand/supply Model
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Identify the neoclassical zone, the intermediate zone, and the Keynesian zone in the AD/AS model and Use an AD/AS model as a diagnostic test to understand the current...
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City of Vancouver: Urban Planning Department
The Planning Department of Vancouver is responsible for advising the municipal government on present and future development plans. There is information here about zoning, urban planning, heritage buildings, livability issues, etc.
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Free Advice: Legal: Restrictions on Real Property Ownership Imposed by Law
This article provides information about restrictions of government on real property such as zoning restrictions and public easements.
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Ergonomics4 Schools: The Learning Zone: Product Evaluation
A product is a term for any item that has been manufactured and is useful to you. You are a consumer when you buy it or use it. Evaluation of the product means that its suitability and safety for use by consumers are checked out. All...
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North Dakota Game and Fish Department: Small Game Hunting Guide
A detailed guide of regulations for hunting various small game in North Dakota. Covers seasons, hunting methods, animal identification, federal laws, poacher reporting, and much more. Each type of small game is accompanied by a map...
CZBrats
Cz Brat: 1955 Treaty: The National Guard in Ascendance
This page is part of the Web of "CZ Brats," a site about the Panama Canal and Canal Zone. The article is about the temporary shift in power in Panama from the civilian aristocracy to the National Police, which occurred immediately after...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Hadamar Trial
Article about the first trial in the US zone in Germany for massed atrocities. In the Hadamar Trial, those responsible for the euthanization center at Hadamar were tried for the killing of foreign prisoners, because laws did not yet...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch.10: Aggregate Demand/supply Model: Critical Thinking Questions
This section provides 18 study questions that require critical thinking skills over the content from Chapter 10: The Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Second Amendment
Check out this interactive timeline on the history of the second amendment.