Speaking of the modern world, the National Air & Space Museum is mind-boggling to visit and its online exhibits are equally impressive. Enjoy the Star Wars trilogy through a multimedia journey. The interactive audio tour is narrated by none other than James Earl Jones. The museum also offers photo galleries of early aircraft and the Mars Pathfinder. The Global Positioning System (the GPS) can tell you where you are and what time it is anywhere on Earth. Learn the history of GPS, how it works, and how the technology is used today. Business Wings explores the role of private aircraft in the business community. The Space Race gallery reviews the history of space exploration and it's role in the Cold War.
As long as we're exploring, Marine Institute (MI-NET) hosts over twenty four K-12 marine related topics including navigation, archeology, fish facts, oceanography, environment, transport and shipbuilding. Marine Education Resources include a teacher's aide with lesson plans, and activities. Follow a loggerhead sea turtle as she crosses the Pacific Ocean with the Sea Turtle Tracking Project. Create and fascinate a child by making a waterscape. Visit the Oceanography page and have a whale of a time. Sea World Marine Mathematics increases teachers' knowledge of marine life through math skills.
Did someone say math skills? Dave's Math Tables provide a concise index that resembles the back of a math textbook. It's full of topics such as:
- General Math -- number notation, addition table, multiplication
table, fraction-decimal conversion, unit & measurement
- Algebra-- basic identities, conic sections, polynomials,
exponents and graphs
- Geometry -- areas, volumes, surface areas and circles
- Trigonometry -- identities, tables, hyperbolics and graphs
- Odds and Ends -- constants, vectors, complexity and graphs
- Statistics -- distributions
- Calculus -- integrals, derivatives and series expansions
There's also a math message board where you can post and answer math questions. Math Baseball is the place for
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