Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rigid Body System
In this activity students experiment with simulating hair with rigid line segments. They use the controls to change the number of hairs as well as the number and length of segments in each hair. Click and drag to the head to move it.
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Khan Academy: Hookes Law: Simulation
This seven-problem quiz/practice helps students understand what Hooke's law is and how to use it in hair simulation.
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Khan Academy: Spring Mass System With Support Springs
In this activity, students practice changing the parameters in the simulation below. What sort of hairstyles can you make?
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Khan Academy: Spring Mass System
This activity gives students practice simulating hair using a chain of springs.
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Khan Academy: Start Here! Overview of Modeling Grass With Parabolas
This is an overview of modeling grass with parabolas. In this topic we're going to explore how realistic blades of grass are modeled using parabolic arcs. It include two lessons: Lesson 1: Modeling grass with parabolas (Grades 5+) and...
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Khan Academy: Step 4 (2 D Spring Mass System)
This program simulates a particle connected to an anchor by a damped spring in two dimensions. Try changing the initial settings.
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Khan Academy: Step 3 (Damped Spring Mass System)
This program simulates a particle connected to an anchor by a damped spring. Can you make a realistic looking spring? Try changing the value of k and the amount of damping. Press "Restart" each time you change a value. How does the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Step 2 (Spring Mass System)
This program simulates a particle connected to an anchor by a spring. Try changing the value of the k variable. Press "Restart" after changing the value. How does the length of the spring change as k increases? How does the speed of the...
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Khan Academy: Design Challenge: Animating Grass
In this activity, students will Animate grass using the controls provided. It will show a single blade and a patch of grass.
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Khan Academy: String Art Construction
Create a parabola by adding strings between two control arms.
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Khan Academy: Water Simulation
Using the interactive tool, see what kind of looks you can create using this particle simulator. Can you make the particles look like water?
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Life
Run the classic game of life, learning about probabilities, chaos and simulation. This activity allows the user to run a randomly generated world or test out various patterns.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Racing Game With Two Dice
Simulate a game where "N" players roll two dice, and the lucky player has an advantage for reaching the finish.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Rabbits and Wolves
Experiment with a simple ecosystem consisting of grass, rabbits, and wolves, learning about probabilities, chaos, and simulation.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Statistics and Probability
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in statistics and probability.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: What Are Some Patterns in How Things Stick Together or Push Apart?
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will start to develop their own computer simulation models of how attraction and repulsion between charged objects work.
Donald Clark
Learning and the Environment
This article, both in text and charts, explains the six criteria, divided into two groups, that compose a learning environment.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Use a Simulation
Get independent practice using a simulation. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Debate on Ratification
Students become one of the famous men who argued for or against ratification of the Constitution. They research and present their argumets to the class, who will then vote whether or not to ratify the new Constitution.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: The u.s. Constitution Power Grab Game
Politicians like power, but who actually gets to use their powers in different situations? Take this quiz to sort out the checks and balances that are used on the various power plays.
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Monty Hall Simulation
The simulation investigates the Monty Hall problem.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Fire
Use this applet to demonstrate the spread of a forest fire. The applet takes into consideration the probability that a tree adjacent to a burning tree will catch fire, and it shows how much of a sample forest will burn. Repeat the fire...
Other
Problem Solving/negotiation
This site is an advertisement, but it has some good information regarding the negotiation process, e.g., seven steps that are common to all negotiations.
NASA
Nasa: Welcome to the Planets the Voyagers 1 & 2
This web page contains information and images on the pretesting, space simulation, and launch of Voyager I and Voyager II.