Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Huygens, Christiaan
This ScienceWorld site provides a short biographical sketch of Christiaan Huygens and describes his most notable scientific discoveries and contributions. Links are provided throughout for additional information as well.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Probability and Statistics
Mini lessons are provided for learning concepts in the world of probability and statistics. Topics include counting and probability, permutations, combinations, independent and dependent events, and distributions. Links to online...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Curious George: Ramp N Roll Experiment
Identify simple principles of physical science and engineering by exploring ramps and things that roll. Predict which items will slide or roll down a ramp and test your predictions.
Curated OER
Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor
Good biography of Frederick Taylor, author of "The Principles of Scientific Management." Includes links to other sites and great pictures.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Daniel Bernoulli
This site from ScienceWorld provides a brief biography of Daniel Bernoulli's major scientific accomplishments, including Bernoulli's principle, vibrating strings, ocean tides, and the kinetic theory of gases. Links are included to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Waves: The Three Color Mystery
Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Magnet Muscles (Lesson Plan)
A teacher lesson plan which includes a station lab; students navigate through four stations with separate activities on magnetic principles. Easily adaptable as a student project.
Ohio State University
Betha Chemistry Tutorial
This site resource offers tutorials on the gas laws, balancing chemical equations, and quantum mechanics.
Other
Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Isaac Newton
This site from Fordham University links to excerpts of Newton's major works. Please scroll down to find the section on Newton titled "The Creation of Classical Physics." You will be able to actually read some of Newton's work! Read...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Income: Which 'Wood' You Choose?
A key turning point in a nation's economic development is when it starts to use its resources for long term versus short term purposes. A natural resource example is trees: should people use wood for cooking food or building homes?...
Brown University
John Carter Brown Library: Atlantic Materia Medica
Exhibit of scientific treatises and natural histories dating from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries demonstrates the impact of trans-Atlantic trade and travel on medical practice and principles.
Other
Middle Tennessee State University: Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page offers many learning strategies for success. The website is based on a college course - it has a wide variety of online learning resources such as study skills course objective, notes, and practice tests/games.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Dihybrid Problem Set
This site is provided by the University of Arizona and it gives great information on the subject. Good collection of dihybrid crosses which exemplify the issue of independent assortment. Work these once you think you've mastered th concept.
Other
Tip: Drive Reduction Theory
This site from the Theory Into Practice Websit provides scientific explanation of the drive reduction theory proposed by American psychologist Clark Hull. Good example and list of main principles.
Curated OER
Science World: Daniel Bernoulli (1700 1782)
This site from ScienceWorld provides a brief biography of Daniel Bernoulli's major scientific accomplishments, including Bernoulli's principle, vibrating strings, ocean tides, and the kinetic theory of gases. Links are included to...
Curated OER
The Ironworkers' Noontime
An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of...
Curated OER
Christine Frederick
An essay that urges women to bring the principles of scientific management found within industrial America into the home and housework.