E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Living in the Mill: 3 D Objects
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at a toy store. Those skills include describing the features of pyramids, prisms, cones, cylinders and spheres.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Prisms and Pyramids
On this interactive website students practice various math skills including naming prisms and pyramids, drawing cross sections of prisms and pyramids, and exploring three-dimensional views.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Reflection and Refraction
Reflection and refraction are explained with an experiment that uses a sheet of paper, cardboard, and other common materials.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Prism
This MathWorld site defines many different types of prisms. It gives the formulas for the volume and area of a prism the site has many illustrations [Requires Java.]
York University
York University: Color and Color Vision
York University provides an index page to several other pages on the topic of color and color vision. The pages are part of an online "book." Many graphics and explanations.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Light and Colors
Discover the relationship between light and colors in this brief lesson. Links to related color identification activities, Color Memory Challenge and Identifying Colors Quiz. Immediate feedback given to responses that includes...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Mixing Colors With Light Beams
In this activity students learn how to mix different colors of light to create different colors.
PBS
Nova Teachers: Einstein Revealed: What's Your Wavelength: Classroom Activity
Investigate the wavelength properties of visible light and the scattering effects of the earth's atmosphere on different wavelengths.
Other
Personal Site: Prisms and Antiprisms
This site is a personal site that explains the difference between a prism and an antiprism. Pictures of a heptagonal prism and a heptagonal antiprism help illustrate this difference.
Other
Csg Network: Csg Volume Calculator: Triangular Prism
Use this calculator tool to find the volume in cubic units of a triangular prism.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Rectangular Prism: Lesson 2
This lesson demonstrates how to find a formula for the volume of rectangular prisms. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Rectangular Prism."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism: Lesson 3
This lesson demonstrates how to find a formula for the volume of triangular prisms. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism: Lesson 5
This lesson demonstrates how to find a formula for the volume of triangular prisms. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Types of Solids: Lesson 4
This lesson will define the terms prism, bases, pyramid, cylinder, and cone. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Types of Solids."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Types of Solids: Lesson 2
This lesson will define the terms prism, bases, pyramid, cylinder, and cone. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Types of Solids."
University of Virginia Library
Prism: The Road Not Taken
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and highlight details of sight in blue, time in red, and agency in green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: On Self Knowledge
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Kahlil Gibran's "On Self-Knowledge" and highlight details that are sacred in blue and details that are secular in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Gettysburg Address
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and highlight details that show logos in blue, ethos in red, and pathos green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Notes on the State of Virginia
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" and highlight rhetoric in blue, orientalism in red, and social Darwinism in green. When finished, click save to see how...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: The Sneetches
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches" and highlight things you understand in blue and things you do not understand in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' "My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On" and highlight internal references in blue, external references in red, and references to grace in green. When finished, click...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Text highlighted in blue represents insightful details, red represents things that are difficult to understand,...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "The March of the Flag" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Albert J. Beveridge's "The March of the Flag (1898)." Text highlighted in blue shows benevolence while red shows economic interest in red, and...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Mine Is a Wide Estate" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Still's "Mine is a Wide Estate." Text details that are neutral are blue, non-Appalachian are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see...