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Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: The Virtual Ecosystem
What does competition for food do to a population? Experience what happens to a rabbit population with limited resources in this virtual ecosystem. At the end of the exercise, there are questions relating to concepts reviewed.
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Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: The Virtual Field
A virtual lab that explores how offspring inherit different traits from their parents. Investigate these traits both in animals and plants. Understand that variations in offspring can lead to traits that allow survival. Lab includes...
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Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: The Virtual Greenhouse
A virtual greenhouse to study how plants adapt to live in different environments. Students will "plant" three different types of plants that thrive with different amounts of sunlight. Lab includes questions that could be saved and graded...
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Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Variations and Adaptations
Experiment with variations in grass to see which size grows best with different amounts of water. Understand that grass that can live in different levels and change to its environment has a better chance of surviving. Also, experiment...
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Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Making Heat
In this activity, students perform a reaction with different concentrations of reactants and monitor the temperature of the reaction. Activity contains procedure, analysis questions, and graph template. Students can save their answers...
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3 D Cells
A brief animation and a more detailed navigation of a cell and it's structure can be found here. Each part is labeled and some are animated.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Newton's Cradle
Adjust the mass of one of the balls to see how the other objects are affected in the animated Newton's Cradle.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Mass Hung on a Spring
Experiment to see how air resistance affects the periodic motion of a mass on a spring.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Mass Connected to 2 Springs
Observe how friction affects a mass connected to two springs that are on opposite sides of the mass. Create a graph while the friction is on or off.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Forces and Systems
See how motion is converted and the energy associated with the motion is used to do work.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Motion Conversion
View the conversion of linear motion to rotational motion.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Pendulum, Slider, and Spring
Observe the motion of this animated system to represent an analogy for molecular mechanics of atoms and molecules.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: A Suspended Rope
Adjust the elasticity and mass of a rope suspended between two points to see how it will be affected by gravity.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Weight Balance on a Pulley
Watch how the placement of two weights attached to a chain on different sides of a pulley affect the movement of the system. You can adjust the heaviness of the weights.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Bunimovich Stadium
Watch as two particles move through a confined area. The emphasis is on their motion in a straight line until they encounter a barrier and are reflected off in a different direction.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Linkages
View several examples demonstrating that rotational motion may be transformed into straight-line motion.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Conservation of Momentum
View a simulation that shows the reaction to a cart on wheels carrying a swinging pendulum.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Friction and Movement
Explore how friction between a surface and tires affects the movement of a bicycle.
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Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Convert Rotational Movement to Waves
View a simulation that converts rotational motion into waves.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Overshot Water Wheel
View a simulation of water moving over the top of a water wheel and causing it to move demonstrating the conversion of energy.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Undershot Water Wheel
View a simulation of water flowing under a wheel that causes the wheel to rotate. Energy from the water is transferred to the wheel.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Nodding Donkey (Pump Jack)
View a simulation of the mechanics that make an oil pump do its job.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Cycloid
View the example that shows how a cycloid is created.
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The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Hypocycloid
View a hypocycloid being created in this simulation.