A free web based math / scientific calculator specially designed for the education environment. It operates in a very similar way to the popular school calculators and so does not need re-learning. The calculator can be blown up to full screen size, making it a useful teaching tool in a classroom setting with a projector. Functions: sin, cos, tan, sin-1, cos-1,tan-1 square root, log10, loge, power of ten, squared, ex Constants: pi, e, root 2 This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.

Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration in the "Arena of Pain". Use the green arrow to move the ball. Add more walls to the arena to make the game more difficult. Try to make a goal as fast as you can.

This hands-on demonstration illustrates how GPS can be used to measure the inflation and deflation of a volcano. Volcanoes may inflate when magma rises closer to the surface and deflate when the pressure dissipates or after an eruption.

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When heat energy is transferred from a warm to a cold object, one cools down and the other warms up, but the total energy remains the same. This model allows you to watch this process and explore how to determine the final temperature.

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The poles of the Earth's magnetic field are not precisely aligned with the geographic north and south poles and, in fact, vary continuously. This activity introduces to students the Earth's magnetic field and how to measure the Magnetic Declination and Inclination at home with nothing but a smartphone. Every modern smartphone has an inbuilt 3-component magnetometer that it uses for efficient navigation. Using a free app called "Physics Toolbox Magnetometer", the smartphone magnetometer measurements can be accessed in real-time and measured. The activity involves taking measurements of the 3-components of the Earth's Magnetic field (Bx, By, and Bz) as a function of angle with respect to the Geographic North. By analyzing the data, one can obtain the Magnetic Declination, Inclination, and Magnetic Intensity (total magnetic field) of Earth's Magnetic field at the experimentation venue.

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Medical Interpreting Resources:Youtube Channel with the 12 medical interpreting videos with and without subtitles and a Medical Interpreting Book on Pressbooks  

Play a game and find out about a Nobel Prize awarded discovery or work! In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion. Are you able to do that? If not, maybe you should read the introduction to blood typing before you start, otherwise you will put the patients' lives in danger!

This is a problem-based learning adventure game that engages the player in the role of scientist, historian, and detective. At the beginning, the student is presented with a problem that must be solved. During the mission, students conduct field and laboratory investigations with the aid of the MedMyst characters. This mission can be played within one class period (approximately 30 to 45 minutes) and the knowledge gained from this mission will help students understand how infectious diseases are spread. This mission covers vectors, malaria, history of malaria, and immune system. Each mission is a self-contained problem and may be played without reliance on the other missions. Also available in Spanish.

Insert channels in a membrane and see what happens. See how different types of channels allow particles to move through the membrane.

Insert channels in a membrane and see what happens. See how different types of channels allow particles to move through the membrane.

A one page assignment that uses online tutorials to give students a first exposure to the components of a cell and membrane.

Explore what happens when a force is exerted on a metallic material. There are many different types of materials. Each material has a particular molecular structure, which is responsible for the material's mechanical properties. The molecular structure of each material affects how it responds to an applied force at the macroscopic level.

How do microwaves heat up your coffee? Adjust the frequency and amplitude of microwaves. Watch water molecules rotating and bouncing around. View the microwave field as a wave, a single line of vectors, or the entire field.

How do microwaves heat up your coffee? Adjust the frequency and amplitude of microwaves. Watch water molecules rotating and bouncing around. View the microwave field as a wave, a single line of vectors, or the entire field.

The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This field trip is a virtual version of the first field trip that is typically a component of a semester-long project for an upper-level undergraduate Stratigraphy, Structure, Tectonics (SST) class at James Madison University. The standard project includes a full-day, on-location field excursion, during which students visit sedimentary rocks and lithologies of the Valley and Ridge Geologic Province in central Virginia. Students primarily collect data on stratigraphic and sedimentological features, while also noting structural features. Students use the data they collect on the field trip to write a synthesis report that includes stratigraphic interpretations, basin analyses, and a tectonic summary of the region that encompasses events in the early to middle Paleozoic.
The objectives of this virtual field trip exercise are similar to the standard on-location trip: synthesize stratigraphic and structural field data to determine depositional environments, interpret flow regimes and possible depositional basins, and deduce tectonic settings. However, instead of personally collecting the data in the field, students are provided with a web-based Google Earth virtual field trip that covers the standard field locations. The web GE presentation allows students to virtually investigate the field data at each location via text descriptions, outcrop and sample images, and at some sites, 360˚ Street View imagery. Field data includes lithologic, mineralogic, and textural data, orientation measurements, and annotated outcrop photos and interpretations.

Note that this is the first field trip in a series of 4 virtual field trip that encompass the Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse project. The project components include:
Field Trip 1: This field trip
Field Trip 2: Virtual Field Trip to the Blue Ridge Province
Field Trip 3: Rt. 211/259 transect
Field Trip 4: Rt. 33 transect

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The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This field trip is a virtual version of the third field trip that is typically a component of a semester-long project for an upper-level undergraduate Stratigraphy, Structure, Tectonics (SST) class at James Madison University. The standard project includes a full-day, on-location field excursion, during which students visit sedimentary rocks and lithologies of the Valley and Ridge Geologic Province along Rts. 211 and 259 in western Virginia. Students primarily collect data on stratigraphic and structural features, while also considering depositional and tectonic environments. Students use the data they collect on the field trip to draft cross-sections that transect the region and then write a synthesis report that includes stratigraphic and structural interpretations, and a tectonic summary of the region that encompasses events during the last ~1.2 billion years.
The objectives of this virtual field trip exercise are similar to the standard on-location trip: synthesize stratigraphic and structural field data to determine depositional environments, subsequent metamorphism and deformation, and deduce tectonic settings. However, instead of personally collecting the data in the field, students are provided with a web-based Google Earth (GE) virtual field trip that covers the standard field locations, plus a few additional sites. The web GE presentation allows students to virtually investigate the field data at each location via text descriptions, outcrop and sample images, and at some sites, 360˚ Street View imagery. Field data includes lithologic, mineralogic, and textural data, orientation measurements, and annotated outcrop photos and interpretations.

Note that this is the third field trip in a series of 4 virtual field trip that encompass the Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse project. The project components include:
Field Trip 1: Stratigraphic Sequences of the Valley and Ridge Province
Field Trip 2: Virtual Field Trip to the Blue Ridge Province
Field Trip 3: This Field Trip (the Rt. 211/259 transect)
Field Trip 4: Rt. 33 transect

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The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This field trip is a virtual version of the fourth field trip that is typically a component of a semester-long project for an upper-level undergraduate Stratigraphy, Structure, Tectonics (SST) class at James Madison University. The standard project includes a two-day, on-location field excursion, during which students visit sedimentary rocks and lithologies of the Valley and Ridge Geologic Province along Rt. 33 in western Virginia and eastern West Virginia. Students primarily collect data on stratigraphic and structural features, while also considering depositional and tectonic environments. Students use the data they collect on the field trip to draft cross-sections that transect the region and then write a synthesis report that includes stratigraphic and structural interpretations, and a tectonic summary of the region that encompasses events during the last ~1.2 billion years.
The objectives of this virtual field trip exercise are similar to the standard on-location trip: synthesize stratigraphic and structural field data to determine depositional environments, subsequent metamorphism and deformation, and deduce tectonic settings. However, instead of personally collecting the data in the field, students are provided with a web-based Google Earth (GE) virtual field trip that covers the standard field locations, plus a few additional sites. The web GE presentation allows students to virtually investigate the field data at each location via text descriptions, outcrop and sample images, and at some sites, 360˚ Street View imagery. Field data includes lithologic, mineralogic, and textural data, orientation measurements, and annotated outcrop photos and interpretations.

Note that this is the fourth and final field trip in a series of 4 virtual field trips that encompass the Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse project. The project components include:
Field Trip 1: Stratigraphic Sequences of the Valley and Ridge Province
Field Trip 2: Virtual Field Trip to the Blue Ridge Province
Field Trip 3: Rt. 211/259 transect
Field Trip 4: This Field Trip (the Rt. 33 transect)

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