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Internet Links for IDS 101

To access student computer accounts: 

 
Click here for info on CWU@GRCC as of Oct. 17, 2008
 
Below you will find useful links to interesting sites for IDS 101

 Links to data on the "additional links" page:

Climate Data | Educational | Weather Data | Other global change


Working Isostacy Link

 

Virtual River Lab- Complete and print out final certificate with your name on it for extra credit or make up attendance points (just include it in your notebook).  Be sure to keep notes along to way in case the computer gives you trouble.    

Prepared spreadsheet for the "Intro to Spreadsheets" module

Review of Graphing:


        Analyzing Histograms

     
  How to Interperate Different Types of Graphs

Histograms vs X-Y Plots


AREA AND VOLUME

PowerPoint on the sizes of small things (cells, atoms, nuclei)

Link to the "Powers of Ten" site for the IDS 101 module: Sizes of things

Inquiry and the National Science Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning

Link to Museum of Minerals

Equalities for Unit Conversions (handout from class)

Unit conversions web site

Orographic effect simulation web site (for Vapor Pressure module)

University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences web site

Coriolis effect demo link

Buoyancy link

Link to Climate Data for Washington

 

STATISTICS AND STANDARD DEVIATION:

Rolling dice (Physlet)

Gaussian distributions (Excel file)

 

MOON PHASE SITES:

Find the phase of the Moon today: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html

Beautiful Moon pictures: http://www.danheller.com/moon

Inner Earth and Plate Tectonics links

USGS web site for This Dynamic Earth

USGS/NPS web site on the Earth's Interior

USGS General Interest Publication on the Earth's Interior

Princeton Earth Physics Project-- more information on the S-wave shadow (more technical than the approach in class, but done in a "lesson plan" approach)