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National Highway Traffic Safety: Social Cognition

For Students 9th - 10th
This page discusses social cognition related to traffic safety strategies and youth characteristics. Some topics discussed are attribution, social schemata, and scripts.
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A Passion for Jazz

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is dedicated to all topics related to jazz music, such as jazz history and jazz theory.
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Handout
Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Qualia

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive discussion of "qualia," the sense-data that inform perception. Considers the different meanings of the term and relates them to epistemological questions about mental states, theories of representation, and introspection....
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Vision Learning

Vision Learning: Physics: Waves and Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on waves and wave motion. Discussion includes wave theories, wave basics, and wave speed. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Handout
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Erwin Schrodinger Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography from the The Nobel Foundation overviews the life and scientific worlk of Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian scientist who was honored for his work with atomic theory. Read about his education and personal life, and view links...
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Primary
CommonLit

Common Lit: "On Tragedy" by Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this chapter from "Poetics", Aristotle seeks to define "tragedy" as it relates to literature and human emotion. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary notes are provided. This site offers links to paired texts, questions and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Gas Properties

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial describes how a gas can be compressed and identifies three factors that affect gas pressure. Students will describe the effects...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Excited States and Photons

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are able to explore the effects of energy on excitation of atoms through simulations, then relate this information to photons at atoms' absorption and emission of light. Multiple-choice and short answer questions are found...
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Article
Boston University

Boston University: The Paideia Project: Kant, the Body, and Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the significance of Kant's interest in cosmology and Newtonian mechanics. Relates Kant's beliefs about how mind and body interacted to his more influential epistemology. Article has a historical perspective and is quite readable.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: What's the Fastest Way to Cool a Soda?

For Students 9th - 10th
When you are craving an ice cold drink of soda, the last thing you want is to be stuck with a bunch of soda cans at room temperature. This fun science experiment sends you on a discovery to find the fastest way to cool soda with...
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Other

Nevada Seismological Laboratory: Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an in-depth explanation of the causes of earthquakes as they relate to plate tectonics, and also has many nice and easy to read pictures, maps, and diagrams of plate tectonics and earthquakes.
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Imperial College London: Brownian Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
An advanced level description of the nature of Brownian motion. Brownian motion, a model formulated to predict matters involving uncertain elements, is related to medical imaging, fractals, robotics, aerosol particles, and stock market...
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Simultaneous Events Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation showing how relative motion affects event order in special relativity. Manipulate the relative speed of two simultaneous events and observe the results.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Michelson Morley Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Georgia State University is where the proof all starts. One must understand this experiment to have any confidence in relativity. Here's the experimental setup and a summary of the data.
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Article
Scientific American

Scientific American: Einstein's Hot Time

For Students 11th - 12th
This article, published by Scientific American (September 2002), re-publishes a short paper by Albert Einstein which "explains" relativity to the layman the pretty girl/hot stove abstract.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Making the Connection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graph theory is a visual way to represent relationships between objects. One of the simplest uses of graph theory is a family tree that shows how different people are related. Another application is social networks like Facebook, where a...

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