This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE looks at nuclear fission as an energy source that can be used to generate electricity.
See how the equation form of Ohm's law relates to a simple circuit. Adjust the voltage and resistance, and see the current change according to Ohm's law. The sizes of the symbols in the equation change to match the circuit diagram.
In this episode of UEN's PDTV, we travel to Bingham High School in South Jordan to learn from high school English Language Arts teacher Braxton Thornley. Mr. Thornely shares how he uses Canvas Mastery Paths and various other tools and strategies to personalize learning for his students. Whether you're new to personalized learning or looking for new ideas, this video is for you! Learn from Mr. Thornley's experience, and get inspired to create a personalized learning environment for your own students.
In this episode of UEN’s PDTV, host Katie Blunt visits Escalante Elementary in Salt Lake City to meet with the school’s Beverly Taylor Sorensen visual arts specialist, Megan Hallet. First, Megan shows us how she uses Utah’s Ed Tech competencies to create art lessons that teach beyond the classroom. Then, Katie shares insight into how you can incorporate creativity into your classroom to encourage students to connect positively to their society.
In this episode of PDTV, Host Katie Blunt travels to Park City, Utah, to see the 4Cs of education in action! Kindergarten teacher Amanda Lewing at Trailside Elementary shares how she’s had success using technology tools to develop creative and engaging lessons that encourage the 4Cs in her classroom.
PICRAT is a technology integration model for teacher education intended to assist teachers in improving their classroom practices. This article by Royce Kimmons, Darren Edgar Draper, and Joe Backman is an overview of the PICRAT technology integration model.
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the industries that produce and rely on advanced technology and assess how their goals and interests may make them well suited for a career in this cutting-edge sector.
The students will play a classic game from a popular show. Through this they will see the probabilty that the ball will land each of the numbers with more accurate results coming from repeated testing.
This article provides an overview of podcasts and suggestions for using podcasts in the elementary classroom.
In this activity, students sort 10 types of fruit by tastiness and ease of eating in order to learn how those attributes can be represented on a coordinate plane, and to determine which fruit truly is "best."
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad breaks down an action into a series of steps in order to program a robot to do what they need it to do.
Travel with us to Uintah River High School on the Ute Indian Tribe's Uintah and Ouray reservation to learn how science teacher Mike Sanderson uses real-world projects and Bluetooth probes to engage students in critical thinking and computational thinking. See how Mr. Sanderson collaborates with his regional educational service center to design these projects, which connect directly to the Ute Indian Tribe's tradition of stewarding the land, plants, animals and water of their 4.5 million-acre reservation.
Explore forces, energy and work as you push household objects up and down a ramp. Lower and raise the ramp to see how the angle of inclination affects the parallel forces acting on the file cabinet. Graphs show forces, energy and work.
Aims to develop a teaching knowledge of the field through extensive reading and discussion of major works. The reading covers a broad range of topics -- political, economic, social, and cultural -- and represents a variety of historical methods. Students make frequent oral presentations and prepare a 20-page review essay.
This article describes Katy Farness' work with the Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University. Farness used remote sensing images and computer technology to create detailed images of Antarctica and the ice sheets of Greenland.
This interactive activity adapted from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center challenges you to plan, measure, and calculate the correct amount of roofing material needed to reroof a house.
In this video produced for Teachers' Domain, meet Sandra Bustamante, a university research assistant who started her career with a biotechnology certificate and is now using nanotechnology—rather than needles—to deliver vaccines.
Learn about the physics of resistance in a wire. Change its resistivity, length, and area to see how they affect the wire's resistance. The sizes of the symbols in the equation change along with the diagram of a wire.
This article provides an overview of educational resources available from polar research programs.
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? Vary temperature, barrier height, and potential energies. Record concentrations and time in order to extract rate coefficients. Do temperature dependent studies to extract Arrhenius parameters. This simulation is best used with teacher guidance because it presents an analogy of chemical reactions.