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Purdue University: A Basic Overview of Aquaculture [Pdf]
A vocational discussion of aquaculture that includes a history of the field, its environmental impact, use of water, and the like. (Published in 1900.)
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Pu: Reducing Barriers for Farmers With Disabilities
This site contains information on a program to assist persons with disabilities in adapting to careers in agriculture.
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Purdue University: An Explanation of Cricket
This is a good introduction to cricket with brief sections on equipment, umpire signals, forms of cricket, statistics, and examples of "good performances."
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Purdue University: History of Horticulture: Quiver and Arrows of the Ice Man
See a picture of a quiver and arrows found with the Ice Man in the southern Alps.
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Purdue University: History of Horticultue: Knife Handle and Sheath of Ice Man
Check out the picture of a wooden knife handle found with the Ice Man in the Alps.
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Purdue University: Vapor Pressure Lowering
A good explanation of vapor pressure depression.
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Purdue University: Boiling Point Elevation
A good explanation of boiling point elevation.
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Purdue University: Quantum Numbers & Electron Configurations
This site from the Purdue University provides quantum numbers explained in detail and shown how they specify the atomic orbital of each electron and their energy levels. Electronic configurations are explained. Learning exercises with...
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Purdue University: Orbital Shells
This site from the Purdue University provides an overview of atomic orbitals and how quantum numbers specify these orbitals. Includes a model that can be rotated and examined in 3D. Includes learning exercises and answers.
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Purdue University: The Aufbau Principle
At this site from Purdue University, Electron Configurations, the Aufbau Principle, Degenerate Orbitals, and Hund's Rule are detailed. Includes learning exercises and answers.
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Purdue University: San Francisco Bay Area Earthquakes
Students use geologic fault maps of the San Francisco Bay Area to find relationships between tectonic plate fault lines and landscape features, topographic features, and epicenters of past earthquakes.
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Purdue University: Thermal Convection
Students build a model representing the properties of Earth's mantle, illustrating how thermal energy creates movement in a fluid.
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Purdue University: An S and P Wave Travel Time Simulation
A classroom simulation modeling how earthquake waves travel through Earth at different speeds. A graph is constructed to demonstrate the relationship between the distance and time of travel of seismic waves, and then used to locate the...
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Purdue: Department of Chemistry: States of Matter
Educational site highlights the three states of matter as well as provides microscopic views.
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Purdue Univ: Gases, Liquids, and Solids
This site has a brief description of the differences in particles in a gas, liquid, and solid. Animated microscopic pictures demonstrate the molecular movement in each state. Information is then summarized in an easy-to-read chart.
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Gas Laws
This chemistry tutorial explains the gas laws (e.g., Boyle's Law) with applications.
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Chem Ed: Chemical Reactions
Because atoms are neither created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction, the total mass of products in a reaction must be the same as the total mass of the reactants.
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Genetic Enhancement and Plant Breeding
This is a paper written by Donald Dunick on genetic enhancements and hoe they relate to plant breeding and genetic vulnerability.
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Purdue University: Cannabis Sativa L.
This article on Cannabis sativa is organized into fourteen brief sections, each presenting factual information about the Cannabis Sativa plant. Here, read about its uses, as well as its chemical makeup, physical description, and...
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Purdue University: History of Horticulture: The Iceman
Reconstructed figure of the Iceman showing use of plant material for clothing.
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Purdue University: History of Horticulture: Flint Sharpening Tool
See a picture of a tool the Ice Man used to sharpen flint.
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Purdue University: History of Horticulture: Birch Bark Containers
A picture of birch bark containers the Ice Man used to carry embers for starting fires.
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Purdue University: History of Horticulture: Medicinal Birch Fungus
Take a peek at medical practices of the Ice Man in this picture of a plant fungus attached to a leather strap.
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Motif of the Collector/ Historical Appropriation in Ondaatje's Novels
The author of this article discusses Michael Ondaatje's "activity of collecting and transforming particular seeds and scraps of the past in a fragmented and fictional form," and how this is reflected in "Coming Through Slaughter" and...