Curated OER
Puberty/Adolescence, Day 3: "Am I Normal?"
"Am I normal?" Bring this topical discussion to your health or teen issues class, who might be struggling with their developing identities. Learners discuss relationships, including acquaintences, friendships, girlfriends, boyfriends,...
Curated OER
REFLECTIONS OF SCIENCE
Students discover the different types of mirrors, their properties and some of their applications. They have already been introduced to some of the properties of light and have already experienced some of the different types of mirrors...
Curated OER
Implicit Differentiation
Students implicitly differentiate functions . In this implicitly differentiating functions lesson, students take the derivative of functions that cannot be solved for a variable. Students find the derivative of an equation for a...
Curated OER
Basin & Range Faulting
High schoolers identify that the crust of the earth is constantly moving and that with the exception of faults accompanied by earthquakes, this rate of movement is far too slow to notice. Then they print a copy of cross-section map A and...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Normal Vector
At this site from Math World you can find out various normal vector formulas, including normal vectors of planes, surfaces, tangent vectors, and three dimensional surfaces. This site also explains how the unit normal vector is derived.
University of Manchester
Umist: Mathematical Formula Tables
This site has links to tables of mathematical formulas. To view them, the student must download the formulas in pdf format.
Other
Math Help: Trying to Pull a Boulder Up a Hill
A practical application of the use of the components of vectors with force. Example and general form are both given.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What Do Food Labels Really Say?
An overview of food labeling history and importance, how to read food labels, basic components of a food label, and a comparison of different foods.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Rome's Influence
A lesson plan which has young scholars understanding the impact that Rome had on history, from things as diverse as city planning to our everyday vocabulary.