Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: 100 or Bust
In this activity, students explore the operations of addition and subtraction. They use estimation, a place value chart, and a calculator to place seven randomly generated numbers in the ones and tens position in a place-value chart to...
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Texas Instruments: Circulation
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary and physiology of the circulatory system.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Programming and the Inequalz App
This activity uses the Inequality Graphing Application to take some of the frustration out of linear programming.It allows students to concentrate on the important part of the lesson, so they can learn the basic concepts with greater depth.
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Texas Instruments: Absolute Values
This set contains questions about graphs of V - shaped absolute value functions. Students are asked to determine maximum and minimum values, state whether the graph is opening up or down, and solve absolute value inequalities.
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Texas Instruments: Maximizing the Area of a Rectangle
This activity is adapted from one of the TI books. Students measure lengths and widths of rectangles and record for the class to see. Each group's rectangle has the same perimeter, but different areas. After a discussion, students make...
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Texas Instruments: Discovering Integer Rules (Multiplying/dividing)
Students will determine rules for integer operations using the calculator.
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Texas Instruments: Freezing and Melting of Water
Freezing temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from liquid to solid, and melting temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from a solid to a liquid, are characteristic physical properties. In this...
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Texas Instruments: Enzyme Action: Testing Catalase Activity
Students can use an O2 Gas Sensor to measure the amount of O2 produced when H2O2 is broken down by the enzyme catalase at different concentrations, pH values, and temperatures. They will also measure the enzyme's initial reaction rates.
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Texas Instruments: Crawling Around: Parametric Plots
In this activity, students' will record the x- and y-coordinates of a rod moving in a figure-eight pattern. They will then use the recorded motion information to separately model the x- and y-motion as a function of time. They will plot...
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The Mudcat Cafe: Blocks, Bells, Box Drums and Mallets
Have you ever wondered how to make homemade musical instruments? Use this site to find out how to construct sandpaper blocks and mallets.
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The Brass Crest Cornet
Ignore the ads and find excellent info on the cornet. Provides a physical description, tone, its role in the brass band, cornet vs. trumpet, and the soprano cornet.
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Gibson Home Page
The is Gibson's official web site. They are a major manufacturer of guitars, basses and amps as well as other instruments.
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Fender Musical Instruments
This is Fender's official website. They are a guitar, bass and amp manufacturing company.
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Ti:me the Technology Institute for Music Educators
This site is dedicated to TI:ME, an organization whose mission is to assist music educators in using technology in their classrooms. Features include resources for music education for voice and instrument.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Still Life With Musical Instruments
An image of "Still-life with Musical Instruments", created by Evaristo Baschenis, c. 1650 (Oil on canvas, 115 x 160 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Still Life With Musical Instruments and Fruit
An image of "Still-Life with Musical Instruments and Fruit", created by Cristoforo Munariz (Oil on canvas).
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Web Gallery of Art: Still Life of Musical Instruments
An image of "Still-Life of Musical Instruments", created by Pieter De Ringz (Oil on canvas).
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Univ. Of West Georgia: Analyzing the Leadership Behavior of School Principals
This academic document describes various methods of measuring a principal's leadership behavior. The authors developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Roland Eotvos
Vasarosnamenyi Baro Eotvos Lorand, better known as Roland Eotvos or Lorand Eotvos throughout much of the world, was a Hungarian physicist who is most recognized for his extensive experimental work involving gravity, but who also made...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Runaway Train: Investigating Speed With Photo Gates
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between the speed of a wooden toy car at the bottom of an incline and the height at which it is released. They observe how the photogate-based speedometer instrument "clocks"...
Curated OER
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Music in the Renaissance: Regal
16th Century Regal, a keyboard instrument made in Germany.
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Eternal Egypt: One Pair of Castanets
One pair of castanets, or musical instruments, made of ivory and in the shape of human hands, depicts bearded Asiatics.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Star Light, Star Bright
This online exploration provides an opportunity to identify the different properties of waves and the relationship that exists between energy, wavelength, and frequency. Correlate images from the Hubble Telescope to the wavelength,...
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Vocalist International Singers
This site is for those serious about vocal training and those who are interested in bettering their voice. Includes helpful hints from people struggling with their vocal studies and progression.