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This web page lists classroom-tested activities on a variety of different topics from physical and earth sciences. The lesson plans can downloaded for use in both formal and informal…
  
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This web site is an extension of the ideas in Sorbjan's very readable book, Hands-on Meteorology, published by the American Meteorological Society. The book, is an excellent source…
  
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This guide to a workshop for primary teachers provides an introduction to the concepts of heat and temperature. It is designed to provide teachers with an inquiry-based learning…
  
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The Physlet Physics Section 4: Thermodynamics provides a technology-enhanced introduction to topics in introductory thermal physics. Interactive javascript simulations are used to…
  
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This is an online physics course on thermodynamics designed for elementary and middle school teachers. The course covers temperature, thermal properties, energy, and irreversibility.…
  
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This site has links to a series of applets relating to physics. The subjects include topics in mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, relativity,…
Habitable Zones of Planets  [ Report ]
  
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This guided inquiry tutorial for upper-division physics and/or astronomy introduces students to various factors that influence the average surface temperature of a planet. First,…
  
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This free HTML5 simulation from PhET allows students to explore how the blackbody spectrum of an object is affected by its temperature. Users can click-and-drag to examine different…
  
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This website contains two complete sets of course material: one for an algebra-based introductory physics course and another for a calculus-based sequence. The sequences contain…
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Newton's Law of Cooling Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This interactive simulation is designed to help students visualize heat transfer and build a foundation to understand specific heat and thermal properties of matter. As an object of…
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