The 'Indiana' steamboat sank in Lake Erie in the mid-1800's. The story of the ship is told through artifacts and maps.
Your problem-solving skills are put to the test in this interactive word problem game on this site. Employ a variety of mathematical skills and strategies including logical reasoning and computation. Multiple choice problems created for students, by students, with immediate feedback and detailed explanations provided for incorrect responses.
This is demonstration of how the law of sines works. It uses Java applets to manipulate the triangle and allows the user to explore what happens to the values of the triangle as the sides are changed.
An easy-to-understand explanation of what it means to either hot- or cold-blooded.
Modern presidential campaigns pale in comparison with the campaigns of 1824 and 1828. Read about the election battles between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
This Applet will assist the user in questions which specify a range of raw scores or z-scores and ask for a probability associated with them.
Given eight functions containing absolute value elements, choose whether each is differentiable or non-differentiable. At the conclusion of the exercises, the site returns a score which helps judge understanding of the topic.
The University of Toronto provides links to poems by Thomas Love Peacock. It also contains biographical information on Peacock.
Google Drawings is Google's least used tool especially as you move into online courses for your students. Find out how to use Google Drawing to promote interaction by creating interactive posters and drawings, collaborative comic strips for digital storytelling and even just a simple interactive whiteboard for your students to collaborate in real time during their online experience.
This resource offers two different topic problems per week for students to solve. A video showing the method to solve each problem is given. After viewing a solution method for solving the problem try one on your own where you can only check if your answer is right or wrong.
Meet some of the animals that live in a zoo. Includes audio narration in ten additional languages with text in English.
Explore what causes seasons on Earth in this interactive adapted from NASA materials that features four cities at different latitudes. Use this resource to view how Earth's axial tilt causes seasons from different perspectives and to develop and use models of sunlight received at Earth's surface. Support materials include: Background Reading, Teaching Tips, and Discussion Questions.
A third Canadian northern territory was created in 1999 when the Northwest Territories was divided, thus forming Nunavut. This article covers its history, symbols, demography, geography, and much more.
Students will connect schoolwork with real work as they explore a virtual representation of a hospital with specific work areas labeled and defined.
Learn about health in Denmark via the World Health Organization's profile page on the country, which includes demographic information about core health indicators as well as general information.
A comprehensive guide to teaching Beverly Cleary's Ramona books. Includes material available as web pages as well as PDF formats. Also provides the words of Cleary herself when discussing characterization, as well as some unforgettable moments from the Ramona books.
This interactive website, ideal for young students and visual learners, addresses the causes and treatments of phenylketonuria through a series of images, animation, and brief explanations. Included is a glossary of terms and links to detailed textbook articles which explain concepts briefly described in the website.