These materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, who fought for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
This lesson plan deals with conditional probability and the probability of simultaneous events. Problems included in this lesson tend to have solutions that are counterintuitive. This presents an opportunity to investigate more deeply the mathematical and probability concepts involved. Many resources are available to teachers and students at this website.
This Stanford University encyclopedia entry discusses Confucius (551-479 BCE), who, according to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
Includes two maps of the state as well as several topographic maps of cities in Connecticut and one historic map of New Haven in 1920.
Read about how the Denver Zoo helps to protect animals in Botswana in Africa. Includes audio narration in English, Chinese, Spanish, Setswana, and Turkish, with text in English.
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of conservation of energy.
See how this principle translates in to fluids and the Bernoulli equation as well as into electric circuits and the voltage law and finally into heat and thermodynamics through the first law of thermodynamics.
The conservation of momentum is technically explained along with a diagram.
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of conservation of momentum.
This StudyCard stack is a teaching activity that demonstrates that the constant rate of change idea is present in many situations outside the mathematics classroom.
Article provides direct links to Brancusi's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
This resource features text of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
The complete text of the Nevada Constitution. The Nevada constitution of July 4, 1864 forbid slavery and allowed for President Lincoln to proclaim that the State of Nevada was admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states.
Read the text of Article II of the Constitution, the four sections of which lay out the powers and duties of the executive branch of the federal government.
In this activity, students will investigate the construction of circles that pass through a given number of points. They will also investigate the number of points needed to generate a unique circle in a plane.
Given a circle, students will construct a diameter of the circle. They will use the following theorem: In the same circle, if one chord is a perpendicular bisector of another chord, then the first chord is a diameter.
An online version of "flashcards" for students to use in learning the contracted forms of phrases. Students can see the word or contraction, flip the page to the other side, or discard the flashcard altogether.
What is anger and why does it affect people differently? Here's a brochure from the American Psychological Association to answer some basic questions on anger.
Site provides exercises for graphing on the coordinate plane including distance formula, midpoint formula, graphs of equations, and graphing using a calculator.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, states are balancing public health through stay-at-home orders and crowd limits with concern for jobs and the economy. Alabama was among the last states to issue a stay-at-home order on April 3rd and among the first to begin easing restrictions four weeks later. Since reopening, new coronavirus cases in Alabama have been trending upward, suggesting that premature state reopenings can have big public health consequences. [4:48]