IMSA Excellence 2000+ Curriculum

One Oh.. Two Oh..
Circle Definition
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/r/r0320700.html

Electric Circuits
http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/

Electricity and Circuits
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Elec_p018.shtml?from=Home

Energy
http://www.firstenergycorp.com/community/education/free_resources/electric_avenue/ElectricAvenue.html

Round Definition
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/c/c0362600.html

Scientific Method
http://www.makeitsolar.com/science-fair-information/01-the-scientific-method.htm

http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/phy_labs/appendixe/appendixe.html

Square Root Calculation
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0932229.html

Friends and Neighbors
Coefficient of Restitution Measures
http://www.idahoptv.org/ntti/nttilessons/lessons2000/hiatt.html

http://www.racquetresearch.com/coeffici.htm

Fizz Froth
Anti-Bubbles
http://www.antibubble.org/
History, photos, activities

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/antibub/antibub1.html
Science Fair project information

The Art and Science of Bubbles
http://www.sdahq.org/sdakids/bubbles/
SDA Kids’ Corner- The Art and Science of Bubbles. Site has bubble recipes, bubble magic, poem, etc.

Bubble Geometry - Thinking Fountain
http://www.thinkingfountain.org/b/bubblegeometry/bubblegeometry.html
Site filled with scientific information on bubbles, recipes and art activities.

Bubble History…
http://bubbles.org/html/history/toyhistory.htm

Bubble Party
http://bubbleblowers.com/Party/BubParty.html
Ideas for creative activities, food, and science associated with bubbles.

Bubble Tray: Create Giant Bubbles
www.exploratorium.edu/
Recipe and instructions for big bubbles. Geometric art with soap film. Discussion of interference and surface tension.

Bubbles in Architecture (China Olympic building
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/architecture/girardphotgraphy\

Bubbles inside Bubbles inside Bubbles inside …
http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/maths/Sheet301/Sheet301a.html
Great examples of concentric bubbles.

Bubbles – Why are they Round?
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploratopia/activity_bubbles.html
Bubble information and recipe

Retinal Ophthalmologist Webinar
http://tinyurl.com/ynt4bg
2008-04-15 11:21 AM Central (CDT)2008-04-15 04:20 PM Central (CDT)04:58:3653684268.0 ACADEMIC12

Magical Round
Become an Inventor: Topological Shapes and More!
http://library.thinkquest.org/C006094/lessons/topological_shapes.htm
Topology. Directions for Klein bottle and various patents with Möbius strips

Escher – Möebius strip II, 1963 poster
http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/A29.html

Möbius, August Ferdinand - University of Scotland, School of Mathematics and Statistics
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mobius.html
Möbius biography

Mobius Strip - The Magic Ring
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Institute/96/classroom/topology/lessons/magicring.html
Möbius strip construction

Topology - Wolfram MathWorld
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Topology.html

Copter Capers
Helicopter History Site
http://www.helis.com/howflies/
How the helicopter flies.(n.d.).Helis.com helicopter history site.

Helicopter Information
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/helicopter.htm/printable
Links to helicopter rotation

Helicopters (Paper) - Savannah River Ecology Laboratory: Helicopters Paper and the Methods of Science.
http://www.uga.edu/srel/kidsdoscience/sci-method-copters/copter-lesson-master.pdf

As Easy As Pi
Pi Day Activities and Resources included Pi Chain
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson335.shtml

http://www.mathwithmrherte.com/pi_day.htm

Pi Day Celebrations
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/
San Francisco’s Exploratorium – originator of Pi Day.

Pi Digits
http://www.joyofpi.com/pi.html
First ten thousand digits of Pi

Pi Digits Computation
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node12.html

Pi Digits in Music
http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/pi10k.html
Converts the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence

Pi  History
http://www.math.com/tables/constants/pi.htm

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

Pi links
http://www.joyofpi.com/pilinks.html

Crop Circle Geometry
Circle definition as an Euclid element
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/defI15.html

Circles inscribed within various polygons - applet exploration
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~llan/newpon.html

Crop Circle applet construction of “2000 Bishop Cannings”
http://home.scarlet.be/~mathweb/bishop1.htm
Geometry applet Crop Circle

Crop Circle applet - Italian
http://www.vivante.it/com@net/crop_circle/crop_circle_italy5.html
Italian crop circle applet

Crop Circle flower of life found at Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FlowerofLife.html

Crop Circle Lesson Plan: Islamic and decimal system historical information
http://www.mathforum.org/alejandre/circles.html

Crop Circle Lesson Plan
http://www.vivante.it/com@net/crop_circle/lessonplan_en.pdf

Crop Circles  -The Geometry of
http://www.coolmath.com/geometry-of-crop-circles.html
Click on the Crop Circles tab at the top of the page

Crop Circle Lesson plan for creating “2000 Bishop Cannings”
http://home.scarlet.be/~mathweb/crop_circles_lessonplan_en.pdf

Crop Circle reference in TV series Numb3rs
http://numb3rs.wolfram.com/412/

Crop Circle Photographs.
http://www.coolmath.com/geometry-of-crop-circles.html

Crop Circle Photographs by year – selected August 2007
http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/photos/2007/aug.shtml

Crop Circle Photograph of “2000 Bishop Cannings”
http://www.math.be/

Crop Circle Swedish Post Cards
http://www.lapro-hoogbegaafd.be/pip/album/Postcards/Sweden%20%20Postcards/index.html
Drawings constructed by students in Sweden with one radius.

Crop Circles Project
http://users.sch.gr/dkastani/encrop.html
Lesson for Bishop Cannings

Designs with Circles
http://www.mathforum.org/alejandre/circles.html

E2K+ Zip Around
I Have … Who Has … Lines and Polygons Vocabulary Review
http://www.curriculumproject.com/loopwriter/pdfs/Lines%20and%20Polygons%20-%20Vocab%20Review%20-%20middle%20school.pdf 
Page for paper copy of part of free materials from The Curriculum Project.

I Have … Who Has …
http://www.curriculumproject.com/loopgame/pdf.php 
Free loop games (I have … Who has …)

General Information
Basic Constructions
http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/construc/construct.htm
Information on tools for geometric constructions

Bicyclic Star Polygons
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~llan/newpon.html
Applet explores circles inscribed within various polygons

Career Education Project in Mathematics: General Math Resources
http://www2.asd.wednet.edu/Pioneer/barnard/sites/Math/GeneralMath.htm
Web site of resource math web sites.

GeoGebra
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Free and multiplateform download software for schools that joins geometry, algebra, and calculus.

Geometric Constructions - Information on the History
http://whistleralley.com/construction/whatis.htm
Information on the history of constructions

Geometric constructions - Information on Tools 
http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/construc/construct.htm

Geometry Glossary
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningmath/geometry/keyterms.html
Learner Glossary

Geometry Terms
http://www.eyepleezers.com/aaamath/geo.htm#topic12
Geometry term definition resource web site

Graph Paper - ¼ inch - Free Download
http://www.paperprintout.com/paper/graph-paper/pdf/graph_paper_1-4.pdf