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Visionlearning: Interactive Animations
A collection of interactive animations of various topics to help visualize scientific concepts.
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Visionlearning: Statistics: Introduction to Inferential Statistics
An introduction to inferential statistics to find relationships and patterns in datasets.
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Visionlearning: Ideas in Science: Theories, Hypotheses, and Laws
Learning module looking at scientific explanations. Discussion covers theories and how they develop, some well-known theories and their origins, and how theories are revised and refined. Also, covers hypotheses and laws. The three...
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Visionlearning: Structure of Plant Cells
An interactive plant cell that presents labels and definitions of the different cell parts when selected.
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Vision Learning: States of Matter
Did you know the ancient Greeks first identified the three states of matter? Read about how the molecules differ in solids, liquids, gases, and plasma. View photographs and watch how the molecules move in each state. If you're really...
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Visionlearning: General Science: Density
Instructional module focusing on density as a physical property of matter. Discussion incorporates historical references as well as formulas. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Visionlearning: General Science: The Scientific Method
Instructional module focusing on the scientific method as a process of investigation into the natural world rather than a linear collection of facts. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Visionlearning: General Science: Unit Conversion: Dimensional Analysis
Instructional module focusing on the importance of unit conversion in science. Discussion includes unit consistency and dimensional analysis. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Vision Learning: Physics: Waves and Wave Motion
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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Visionlearning: Biology: Charles Darwin Ii: Natural Selection
Instructional module focusing on Charles Darwin's explanation of natural selection as the mechanism for evolution. Discusses how this force of natural selection promotes changes in species over time. Site also includes an interactive...
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Visionlearning: Biology: Charles Darwin Iii: Descent With Modification
Instructional module focusing on Charles Darwin's theory of Descent with Modification. Discusses how slight changes from parent to offspring create variation and potentially create new species over time. Site also includes an interactive...
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Visionlearning: Biology: Genetics Ii: Mendel and Multiple Genetic Traits
Instructional module focusing on Gregor Mendel's scientific legacy and analysis of multiple genetic traits. Discussion includes Mendel's work on his second law, the Law of Independent Assortment, which states that different traits are...
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Visionlearning: Biology: Taxonomy I: What's in a Name
Instructional module focusing on biological classification. Discussion includes Carolus Linnaeus' taxonomic classification system for organizing and classifying living things. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links...
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Visionlearning: Biology: Taxonomy Ii: Ruling Names of Giants
Instructional module focusing on binomial nomenclature. Discussion includes Carolus Linnaeus' taxonomic classification system for naming all species. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Visionlearning: Chemistry: The Nature of the Chemical Bond
This site talks about ionic, polar covalent, and non-polar covalent bonding.
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Visionlearning: Early Ideas About Matter: From Democritus to Dalton
Site that deals with the basics of matter. An interactive animation goes through experiments conducted in the 19th Century to help come up with scientific laws. With each section there are questions for comprehension.
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Visionlearning: Earth Science: Plate Tectonics I: Geologic Revolution
Instructional module focusing on the development of plate tectonic theory. Discussion includes the evidence of Pangaea, and the processes of seafloor topography and seafloor spreading. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and...
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Visionlearning: Physics: Light Ii: Electromagnetism
Instructional module focusing on light and electromagnetism. Discussion includes historical discoveries that led to the understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to...
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Visionlearning: Physics: Light I: Particle or Wave
Instructional module focusing on light. Discussion includes historical development of particle versus wave theories and the scientific studies leading to the understanding of light waves today. Site also includes an interactive practice...
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Visionlearning: General Science: Metric System: Metric and Scientific Notation
Instructional module focusing on the metric system. Discussion includes the historical development of the system and an explanation of base units. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Visionlearning: Earth Science: The Nitrogen Cycle: Of Microbes and Men
Instructional module focusing on the nitrogen cycle. Discussion includes the requirement of nitrogen by all organisms, the five processes in the nitrogen cycle, and how humans impact this cycle. The site also includes an interactive...
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Visionlearning: Earth Science: The Hydrologic Cycle: Water's Journey
Instructional module focusing on the hydrological cycle. Discussion includes the movement of water through the different reservoirs on earth and its impact on climate and weather patterns. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz...
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Visionlearning: Atmosphere and Oceans: The Origin of the Modern Atmosphere
An explanation of how the Earth's atmosphere has changed over time. Evidence that helped scientists understand these changes is presented.
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Visionlearning: Atomic and Ionic Structure of First 12 Elements
Analyze the electron configuration of the of the first twelve elements on the Periodic Table.