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This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics
Discuss Earth's tectonic plates at middle school level with an informative presentation. Packed with maps, satellite images, diagrams, and photographs, the slideshow connects with any curriculum focused on plate tectonics. It...
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Changing Crust
In this changing crust learning exercise, students use candy bars, licorice sticks and bubble gum to simulate the 3 types of forces that change the Earth's crust. These include compressional forces, tensional forces and transversal...
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Graham Cracker Plate Tectonics
In this plate tectonics worksheet, students use Graham crackers, frosting, water and a paper plate to simulate tectonic processes such as convergent, divergent and transforming plate boundaries.
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Convergent or Divergent Series
In this convergent or divergent worksheet, students examine a given series and determine if it is absolutely convergent, conditionally convergent or divergent. This two-page worksheet contains seven multi-step problems.
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You Must Know These
In this sequence worksheet, students compute the value of the nth term. They identify a convergent series. This one-page worksheet contains four problems.
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All About Continental Drift
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to continental drift and geography. There are 54 words located in the puzzle.
University of California
Ucmp: Wegener (1880 1930)
Complete biographical information with links to his theories. Contains links to interactives on plate tectonics.
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Vienna: Sequences Convergent or Divergent?
Given a set of eight sequence formulae, determine whether each is convergent or divergent. After completing the exercises, the site returns a score to judge understanding of such sequences.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Sequences and Series
Hotmath provides 20 practice problems relating to sequences and series. Each of the practice problems include a step-by-step guide for solving.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Power Series and Convergence: Power Series Review [Pdf]
This PDF reviews the various power series and explains convergence.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Teoremas De Bolzano Y De Weierstrass
In Spanish. In this interactive unit learn how to understand the concept of hypothesis and thesis and some important applications of the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem.
Other
Pangea: Alfred L. Wegener Biography
Two biographies of Wegener and his work including his theory on how raindrops form.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tool: Quiz on Convergent and Divergent Series
Learners exhibit comprehension of advanced mathematical concepts in Pre-Calculus. The online quiz tests the scholars on convergent and divergent series.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Ring of Fire
Students identify plate boundaries as well as continents, countries, and bodies of water to become familiar with an area known as the "Ring of Fire."
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All Media: Plate Tectonics: Plate Movements
Animated simulations showing the three types of plate movements: divergent, convergent, and lateral plate boundaries.
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot!: Example of Convergent Infinite Series
This site explains the sum of a simple convergent series using a geometric illustration.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Convergent Sequence
This site from MathWorld explains convergent sequences with links to related information. The information is very brief, but examples and formulas are provided.