Deb Mueth - Resources

There are two activities here that will allow you to engineer crops. One uses traditional methods. The other uses genetic modification. In addition there are articles here that will give you more information on genetic modification.

Bt Corn

More information on how crops are being genetically modified by new technologies. This is again a video clip.

Corn

This is from the University of Kentucky. It concisely and fairly clearly identifies how genetically modified organisms are made.

More corn

This is from the University of Minnesota. In addition to having information on Bt Corn, it includes a glossary of terms and a list of sources for possibly more information. One of those listed is at the University of Illinois in Urbana.

Golden rice

This introduces what golden rice is. It also talks about pros and cons to its use.

Squash

From the same series in the article about flavor savr tomatoes.

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BA/Gen_Engineered_Squash.php

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/gmf-agm/appro/ofb-098-106-a-eng.php

Included here because it is from Canada, showing that this is something being considered in other nations as well.

Tomatoes

Gives two views on a tomato called the "Flavr Savr."

More Tomatoes

Again talks about the FlavrSavr tomato but also contains information about other fruits and vegetables. There is a bibliography at the end of the article.

Soy Beans

This site has several articles on gmo plants.

ISAT

ISAT Sample questions

Take a quick test on the kinds of questions you will find on the ISAT. There are sample questions for each grade level.

2010 ISAT Practice

Interactive practice for ISAT.

Statistics Websites

A Nice Site for all Kinds of Stats

This site has lots of information on the statistics we have have been studying. There is even a video to support the lessons.

Histograms

Stem-and-leaf plot

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Virtual snowflakes are fun, too!!

Brain Games

Mining Websites

Environmental Impacts of Mining and Smelting

Coal in China

Mining Rubies

Mining in Asia

Kids Connected to Conservation and Culture

Asian Children in Mining

Mining in Central Asia

Mining in Mongolia

Sulphur mining in Southeast Asia

Wetlands information

Experience Emiquon

Wetlands--Why Care?

Why protect wetlands?

Wetlands Protection

Importance of Wetlands

America's Wetlands

What's A Wetland?

Bridge/Interchange Project

I55-6th St. Study

This is about a study currently going on in Springfield.

A kind of interchange.

Interchanges

Information on parameters for interchanges.

An Interchange in another Springfield

this is an interchange found in Springfield, MO. It includes an animation to show traffic flow.

A Sustainable Bridge

An interesting idea. Designer is listed as being from Champaign, IL.

IDOT information

Go to the Bid

Super Bridge

Building Big

West Point Bridge

Structural Analysis

Pulse Rate

Pulse Rate Chart by Age

You can change the categories to find the heart rate of people at different ages.

Learn how to take pulse rate.

This has an animation on how to take your pulse.

Algebra

This is on graphing a linear equation

First you complete a table, then you plot points.
Good practice for linear equations
Find the one in CHAPTER 11: GRAPHING FUNCTIONS.
You can practice others later.

Linear relationships

2-way Table

McDougall-Littell--Algebra 1

This site is supported by McDougall-Littell. It has both a high school and a middle school part. Just follow the directions and keep those math skills bright and shiny

Probability section quizzes

Please follow this link. Take section quizzes 7.8, 12.1, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7

Solving equations

A Prezi presentation

Algebra games

Many really good games to practice skills—not just for algebra. Anyone can use them. Try Planet Blaster to practice solving equations. Explore this site—it has many different games.

More Games for Algebra

Practice finding cooordinates and saving the planets with Astro Girl, find the slope of a line with an interactive game, and more.

Imaginary Numbers

For those of you who are wondering about numbers that are not real. This is about imaginary numbers. As an additional bonus, there is also some information here about complex numbers. Enjoy!

Grapher

This can be used to graph various kinds of functions. Enjoy!!

Uses of imaginary numbers

For those of you with a need to see how they work and where they are used.

Area of states

This has the area of the states in order from least to greatest. It is fairly straight forward.

Another list of areas.

Use to help you with the daily problem.

Beta

Energy Star Campaign

This gives more information on recycling. Go particulaarly to the "Refrigerators and freezers" section.

Cell Middle School

Welcome to cell middle school

Diagrams of cells are presented and organelles are expalined.

Cells again

Still more cells

More and More cells

Cells, Cells, Cells

Another cell website

One more cell site

I made a note that this was a good site.

Geotech

More Geometry

This is more on transformations, angles, etc. This is similar to what we have worked on previously.

Geometry

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Try "Playing Golf with Angles" and "Angles" to review kinds of angles and supplementary and complementary angles, respectively.
"Transformations and Symmetry," "Lines of Symmetry," and "Translations" allows you to practice those concepts.

Atomic Learning for Sketchpad

Tutorials on sketchpad.

M.C. Escher

Escher was champion at tesselations, as well as other very fascinating art works. You can check out this site to find out more about him and to see some of his work.

Symmetry

More symmetry

Still more symmetry

Circles, Circles, Circles!!

Use Coolmath for something besides parking your car and rolling blocks!
Here is some information on circles for you.
Use it to answer your worksheet.

IMSA

How Lasers Work.

NASA site about lasers.

How do lasers work?

Chaos game

Earthquakes!!

Try to make your own earthquake!

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Virtual journey to the center of the earth

Scientific journal on journey to the center

Wolf-Sheep Predation

This explores a three-component ecosystem.

Map of Underground Railroad Routes

This is again sponsored by the National Park Service but gives routes that were used by the Underground Railroad.

General Background on the Underground Railroad

This site gives some general additional information on the Underground Railroad. It is sponsored by the National Park Service.

NASA

This site will give you information on launches from 1957 through the present and includes proposed launches through 2015

IMSA E2K+

This is the site for IMSA E2K+. Go here to find more information on the program and for the problem of the month

Ganymede +

Information on Ganymede and other moons of Jupiter.

Hubble

Link to slide show on views from the Hubble telescope. Identifies the images of objects shown.

Strawberry DNA

Shows how to extract DNA from strawberry cells.

Engineer a Crop

Math Puzzles

Math Anxiety/first day

Take a short quiz on your level of math anxiety

Puzzles, Puzzles, Puzzles!!

This site has a great many fun and challenging puzzles. You can do them interactively or print them, so that is a nice feature.

Math is fun sites

Fun Brain

You all know this one. Find a game that you like and sharpen up those skills. (It will be OK if you try one that isn't math.) Enjoy!!

math is fun

A brief history and information on irrational numbers

PBS and Math

Go here to hear a song about primes. Then visit other items of interest on this site.

Number Cruncher

Check your number sense and practice using strategies to reach a target number.

Tower of Hanoi

This is a classic strategy puzzle. Start out with the easiest and see how far you can go.

Factor Game

Practice factoring—both against the computer and another person.

Turtle Pond

Estimate and use a coordinate plane to get the turtle into his pond.

Cool games

Math games for lots of different areas

Games to play

This website has games you can play by yourself or with a partner.

Math references

Templates for graph paper

This site will give you several kinds of graph paper that you can print. You can even change the size of the grid if you need or want to.

Math dictionary

A dictionary of math terms you can use.

"Math is Fun" Math Dictionary

Use this to find equilateral triangles and symmetry.

Another Math Dictionary

This one has more complicated words. It might interest some of you.

Native American recipes

native tech

More recipes

Even more recipes

Native American Recipes

Periods 2 and 3

Virtual Bridge Experiment

You will use this link for Problem 1.1 and 1.2 in Mathematical Models.

Virtual surface area and volume

You can use this site to create rectangular prisms with the different volumes and surface areas.

Investigation 3: What do You Expect?

Take this quiz to review probability.

Investigation 1: What Do You Expect?

This is a multiple choice quiz on simple probability.

Multiple Choice Practice

Various problems to practice your knowledge of ratio and percent.

Multiple choice quizzes--Pythagoras

Choose the multiple choice skills practice. Go to the Investigation we have just worked on to take that quiz.

Connected Math 2

This is the website that is supported by the company that publishes the Connected Math 2 books. The webcodes that are found in the book may be used here.

Degrees in Packaging

Think that box just came from nowhere? Think again. This site gives information about degrees that are offered at Michigan State University in packaging. They offer a bachelors, masters, and doctorate.

make a graph

This site will give you information to construct a graph on your own.
Answer the questions about the graph that is given.
Then go to the next section. Use your answer from #1 to help you determine the data for each category and then to make the graph.

Make 2 graphs, one comparing the number of students in each category.
The other should compare the categories as percents of the total number of students.

How do these two graphs compare?