NASA KSNN Did you know astronauts study sand in space?
Find out more about how astronauts study sand in space and experiment with sand stability as water is added.
NASA KSNN Are there grocery stores in space?
Learn more about foods in space and compare powdered foods.
Art Elements-Space
This video, done by a high school student in Santa Clara, California, looks at one of the elements of art - space. It shows how to display depth and space. A discussion and examples of the different types of space helps you hve a good understanding of perspective. This video is part of the video collection at NextVista.org (http://nextvista.org), a proud partner of Curriki. (4:13)
Mali Empire and Djenne Figures
Archeology offers the most tangible evidence of earlier civilizations. Although archeology has already provided invaluable information pertaining to the life styles and skills of the peoples from this region of West Africa, the archaeological record is still incomplete. The figurative sculptures featured in this resource furnish one part of the historical puzzle of this region. These handsome terracotta sculptures are from the Inland Niger Delta region near Djenne (pronounced JEH-nay; also spell
Ejs Oscillations and Lissajous Figures Model
The EJS Oscillations and Lissajous Figures model displays the motion of a superposition of two perpendicular harmonic oscillators. The simulation shows the result of the superposition. The amplitude and frequency of the oscillators can be changed via textboxes.
UN in Space
The United Nations visits outer space! Visit the UNISPACE III conference. Learn about the world's treaties and principles of outer space exploration. Visit our links to other space and astronomy sites too.
Space Trader and Economics
Students will use the Space Trader software to reinforce economic skills. They must buy and sell different objects, travel to various planets and make enough money to buy a moon of their own.
Seeing Student Thinking and Building a Space for Collaborative Faculty Curriculum Development
Whitney Schlegel uses case-based teaching to engage students and allow for uncertainty to be a part of the science classroom.
Rose Center for Earth and Space
This Web site, created to complement the museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space, offers a virtual visit to the museum, complete with text, photos, and video.
The Untold War
Nancy Sherman, University of Glasgow, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series, in this, she talks about the philosophical concept of guilt in war. Introduced by Hew Strachan
Blast off for new space age building
In this video see the brand new Nottingham Geospatial Building, a high tech hub where research and business work hand in hand to develop some incredible new technologies. Did we mention it has a railway on the roof?
Warwick students to power space satellite
Bill Crofts and student, Kennith Leong, talk about the project they are involved in to design and build power supply systems for a moon orbiting satellite planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2011.
Length: 26 minutes
Public Space and the Body
Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation. Antony Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999. Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and author. Renata Salecl is centennial professor of law at LSE and a senior researcher in criminology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The Solar System - Space School
Short (4 min.) youtube video about the Solar System. Includes a good explanation of why Pluto is a dwarf planet.
Significant Figures
This webpage is an overview of significant figures and their use in scientific notation. A chemistry tutor in the College of Math and Sciences at a public university developed this overview as one of several study aids for undergraduate chemistry students.
Significant Figures
Users of this interactive site can practice determining the number of significant figures in a given number. The game offers twelve different numbers for which the number of significant figures has to be determined.
Significant Figures
This webpage is an overview of significant figures and their use in scientific notation. A chemistry tutor in the College of Math and Sciences at a public university developed this overview as one of several study aids for undergraduate chemistry students.
Atoms: The Space Between
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey takes a look at the scale of the atom and the tremendous amount of space between the electrons and the nucleus. If all this empty space exists in matter, how can any substance be solid?
Techniques for Studying Materials: Reciprocal Space
This set of animations shows the relationship between a real lattice and the reciprocal lattice. It introduces the Ewald sphere and the explanation of reciprocal absences. From TLP: Reciprocal Space
Space-filling fire-resistant composite Barrikade (R)
The concertina-like structure of the exfoliated vermiculite particles is clear. This configuration is set by the binder during the initial cure. This is then followed by a moulding operation and secondary, inter-particulate binding.
