In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations are used to show how the hills around Los Angeles were formed by earthquakes at small thrust faults that extend outward from the larger San Andreas fault.5m 15s

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a geologist digs a trench along the San Andreas Fault to reveal three thousand years of earthquake history. Information from the layers of sediment may help geologists to predict earthquakes.3m 19s

This video segment adapted from NOVA uses historical illustrations, photographs, and animations to explain how seismographs work, the difference between P and S waves, and the Richter scale.

This resource provides a good example of the differences between explicit costs and implicit costs using the ownership of a pizza restaurant as an example.

In this video produced for Teachers' Domain, Chi-An Wang, a mechanical engineering graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes her process when working with New Balance to design a new triathlon shoe.

"Follow Echo the Bat through Arizona and learn about remote sensing and use false-color satellite images to help you find Echo."

This game helps students to understand the concepts of changing supply, changing demand, and equilibrium price, as the price of bags of ice changes after a hurricane has swept through a community.

In this series of short "headlines", each has a direct goal, but each also has an unintended externality or spillover.

This activity presents students with the challenge of saving lives through public policy. A cost-benefit analysis of current programs and potential policies will be used.

This is the official site of the National Portrait Gallery's exhibit entitled "Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places." It contains some information about Wharton's life and career and reproductions of the paintings in the exhibit.

This site gives you a good reproduction of Le Fifre. Also there is information concerning the painting and how it was accepted.

This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines elastic potential energy and explains its origin. Provides an equation for computing elastic potential energy and an opportunity to practice solving problems with an automated problem-solver.

This site is a great place to study the concept of "elasticity" Formulas, examples, and quiz questions are provided.

This site from Georgia State University defines electric potential energy and relates it to the concept of electric potential. Discusses the idea of a reference point or a zero potential location.

Read about where how the electricity to our homes is produced and why it is important to conserve energy. Book includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.

A tutorial on the electromagnetic and visible spectra. Discusses dispersion and how perceptions of white and black are related to the visible light spectrum.

An excellent overview of electron spin, what it means in non-mathematical terms and quantum mechanical terms.

This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying electron behavior.

This lesson plan involves creating and maintaining an online scrapbook in a reader-response format. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.