Young scholars investigate the behavior of a slope profile over geological timescales using a very simple experimental apparatus. The lab allows students to understand concepts of equilibrium, controls on slope profile, issues...

This lesson is designed to engage students in a discussion and demonstration of molecules, surface tension, and bonding. Students will use hands on materials as well as technology. This lesson shows how a solution works to achieve...

This lesson begins with a PowerPoint slideshow that covers important ecological concepts about biomes, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and population growth. Young scholars will look at the population dynamics involved with the...

A lesson and activity sheet on buoyancy. Students add weight to a helium-filled balloon to keep it suspended so that it won't float or sink, but instead will 'flink.'

Students observe the effects of temperature change on the color of nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide by manipulating glass tubes containing the gases at equilibrium. Then, they write a balanced equation for the reaction and...

This is a biology or environmental science instructional activity that incorporates technology. This project-based plan is designed to be used as students study the factors that affect the dynamic equilibrium of populations and...

This lesson covers concepts of energy and energy transfer utilizing energy transfer in musical instruments as an example. More specifically, the lesson explains the two different ways in which energy can be transferred between a system...

Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing...

Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides students with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....

The concepts of supply and demand and related terms are taught through stories about the toy fads of Hula Hoops and Silly Bandz. In 1958, Wham-O, Inc. began marketing the Hula Hoop in the United States and sales of the Hula Hoops...

The downloadable monograph investigates forces and forms in large structures. Three teaching units are included that explore bridge engineering.

To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites, students will look to anticipate what consumers are demanding. Students will then go through the market...

In this instructional activity summary review and remind yourself of the key terms, graphs, and calculations used in analyzing the demand for the good. Review the distinction between demand and quantity demanded, the determinants of...

University site explaining what is meant by concurrent forces. The site has a free-body diagram with 3 forces acting on an arbitrary body. The site explains the conditions necessary for concurrency.

This classroom activity provides learners with many examples of changes in supply or demand.

This site from the Illinois Institute of Technology provides a lab activity in which students determine the location of the center of mass of an irregularly shaped object. Observations are related to the balancing point of the object....

This Illinois Institute of Technologysite provides a lab activity in which young scholars find the center of gravity of a box which has nonuniform weight distribution. Complete with directions and discussion questions; answers provided.