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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Biologica: Web Lab, Mendel's Peas

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site see an online visual of meiosis, fertilization, and inheritance and play a game.
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Website
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Permutation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWorld page gives information about permutations. Its real merit lies in the fact that there are examples for a clear understanding at various parts of the site and many links to learn detailed information about various aspects...
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Website
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Combination

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWorld page gives an explanation of combinations as they pertain to probability. Offers links to more complete information about various topics related to combinations.
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Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Calculus Ii: Applications of Integrals

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource examines applications of integration. Topics investigated are arc length, surface area, center of mass, hydrostatic pressure, and probability density functions. Class notes, definitions, and examples with detailed solutions...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Density Curve of the Normal Distribution

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept expands upon the previous by discussing further the normal distribution and the probabilities associated with it by looking at the normal density curve.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Teachers: Celebrate the 100th Day of School!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic has put together 100th day math ideas from several different teachers. Includes "zero, my hero", probability, sorting, measuring, estimating, counting, weighing, money, and other ideas for celebrating the 100th day.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Puzzling Pangaea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this instructional activity learners will work collaboratively to research information in order to prove or disprove if a super continent ever existed. Students will create a model of Pangaea to show how their research findings...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Advanced Monty Hall

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose one of N doors to experimentally determine the odds of winning the grand prize behind one of the doors, as in the TV program "Let's Make a Deal."
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Bowl Em 'Over

For Students 9th - 10th
Does he have a chance? In this math challenge, estimate Helix's chances of winning the bowling tournament.
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Activity
Other

Teachers first.com: 50 Ideas for the 100th Day of School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Great ideas for "100th Day" activities. Most of these would be a good challenge for upper elementary school students if you want to include them in your 100th Day celebration. Activities include counting, measuring, weighing, sorting,...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Odds Fair Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a follow up to flip chart on odds. Students will play a game in pairs with a pair of dice and record the products. Usually, the student who chooses the even products wins. They will use the odds...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Davisson Germer

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulate the original experiment that proved that electrons can behave as waves. Watch electrons diffract off a crystal of atoms, interfering with themselves to create peaks and troughs of probability. Java required.
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Unit Plan
Towson University

Towson University: Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Misplaced modifiers can cause both confusion and laughter on the part of a reader. You probably want to avoid either response, so use this site to learn what misplaced and dangling modifiers are, as well as how to avoid them in your...
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Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: The Science Behind the News: Secrets of the Mummy

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the study of oxygen isotopes in the teeth of Oetzi, the 5,200 year mummy found in the Tyrolean Alps, as a way of identifying where the man had probably lived. Includes map of location of the body upon death.
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Website
Other

Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion website to the film by the same name. Tells of the little known invasio. of Finland by Russia in the winter of 1939 that probably changed the course of WW II.
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Website
National Institutes of Health

Nih: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Three great ways YOU can eliminate waste and protect your environment!Waste, and how we choose to handle it, affects our world's environment-that's YOUR environment. The environment is everything around you...
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Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Odds

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of odds as a specific way to express probabilities. An example is given and clearly explained.
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Handout
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Mendels' Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Palomar College provides a good background on exactly what Mendel did. Vocabulary links throughout make this a very good introduction article for genetics.
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eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State U.: Multivariate Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features an online textbook with very in-depth information about multivariable statistics. (NOTE: In the archived version, some images do not appear. However, many of them are multiple-choice questions for students, and if you...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mendel's Laws of Genetic Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity, adapted from the Dolan DNA Learning Center, uses Punnett squares to illustrate Mendel's laws of inheritance and how a particular gene combination results in a 3-to-1 ratio of dominant-to-recessive traits.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Importance of Birds

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] You are probably familiar with birds as food. Around the world, people consume chicken, turkey, and even more exotic birds, like ostriches. Can you think of other...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Random Variables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Video presentation on the probability of independent events, covering related topics: multiplication rule, random variable, and mean and standard deviation. [28:41]
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: Jacob Broom 1752 1810

For Students 9th - 10th
Broom was born in 1752 at Wilmington, DE., the eldest son of a blacksmith who prospered in farming. The youth was educated at home and probably at the local Old Academy. Although he followed his father into farming and also studied...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes the Language of Chance

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Questions are randomly created to quiz learners on the language of chance. Hints and solutions are included.