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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 4.8 Hardy Weinberg

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the conditions required for the Hardy-Weinberg model in evolution.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Definition of Climax Community With Examples

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how a climatic community is the end product of ecological succession and describes the process by which this happens. Provides several examples of climax communities.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Early Tetrapod Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview filmed for the PBS series "Evolution," scientists Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin describe the discovery and significance of some of their key fossil finds.
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Website
Edutopia

Edutopia: Room to Learn: Mystery Science Theatre

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read and see examples of how one physics teacher turns his classroom into a student-centered, project-based and fun place to be.
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Mechanics Problems: Force and Linear Kinematics Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Minnesota site provides a series of contextually rich problems pertaining to force, Newton's second law of motion, and linear kinematics.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Graph of Supply and Demand Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows both a supply and demand schedule, and constructs a graph using this schedule. It continues on to discuss equilibrium, and then shows a new equilibrium after there has been a change in supply.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Shifting a Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows both a supply and demand schedule, and constructs a graph using this schedule. It continues on to discuss equilibrium, and then shows a new equilibrium after there has been a change in supply.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: The Center of Population in the United States, 1790 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1904 of the eastern United States showing the westward progression of the centers of population from 1790 to 1900. "The centre of population is defined as 'the point at which equilibrium would be reached were the country taken...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Maat

For Students 9th - 10th
Maat is a goddess personifying truth, justice and moral integrity. Her statue was often offered by the kings to the major gods as a symbol of equilibrium and, thus, their authority to reign.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Balancing Balls on Air

For Students 1st - 5th
Investigate how the force of moving air from a blow dryer interacts with the force of gravity to keep a ping-pong ball perfectly balanced in midair.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA uses a colorful graphic to illustrate why objects reach terminal velocity. Provides equation for the terminal velocity of an object. Graphic is accompanied by a simple explanation.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Rates of Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is part 4 of a 4 part series to include the nature of chemical reactions, reaction types, and balancing chemical equations.
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Website
University of Virginia

Uva Physics: Using Vectors to Describe Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Background information on vectors and their use in describing motion in two dimensions. A comparison of Aristotle's and Galileo's perspectives on force and motion is given.
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Handout
Other

Vapor Pressure & Msds

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the relationship between Material Safety Data Sheets and the substance's vapor pressure.
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Handout
Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Thermodynamics and Heat: Second Law of Thermodynamics

For Students 6th - 8th
Explains the second law of thermodynamics.
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Website
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Learning Center: Rigid Bodies and Rotational Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
From the companion web site for the Contemporary College Physics web site. The collection of pages indexed from this page lead to a variety of useful resources pertinent to Chapter 9 (Rigid Bodies and Rotational Motion) of the book. Such...
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Article
eSchool Today

E School Today: Unbalanced Forces

For Students 4th - 8th
Discover unbalanced forces.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Center of Mass

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This site from the Illinois Institute of Technology provides a lab activity in which students determine the location of the center of mass of an irregularly shaped object. Observations are related to the balancing point of the object....
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Center of Gravity Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Illinois Institute of Technologysite provides a lab activity in which learners find the center of gravity of a box which has nonuniform weight distribution. Complete with directions and discussion questions; answers provided.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Model of Monopolistic Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
This site uses an example of "pushcarts on the beach" to demonstrate a monopolistically competitive market structure and how as more firms enter the market, price, quantity, and deadweight loss are all effected.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Interpreting the Aggregate Demand/aggregate Supply Model

For Students 9th - 10th
In order for a macroeconomic model to be useful, it needs to show what determines total supply or total demand for the economy and how total demand and total supply interact at the macroeconomic level. This model is called the aggregate...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Law of Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
If the price of something goes up, companies are willing (and able) to produce more of it.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Law of Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
If the price of something goes up, people are going to buy less of it.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how the concepts of supply and demand can be applied to the economy as a whole. Includes examples of an aggregate demand curve and an aggregate supply curve, and review questions at the end.

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