This YouTube channel contains OER media with a CC 4.0 license being used by the Open RN project. The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios.

Explore an active area of research in optical physics: producing designer pulse shapes to achieve specific purposes, such as breaking apart a molecule. Carefully create the perfect shaped pulse to break apart a molecule by individually manipulating the colors of light that make up a pulse.

Did you ever imagine that you can use light to move a microscopic plastic bead? Explore the forces on the bead or slow time to see the interaction with the laser's electric field. Use the optical tweezers to manipulate a single strand of DNA and explore the physics of tiny molecular motors. Can you get the DNA completely straight or stop the molecular motor?

Did you ever imagine that you can use light to move a microscopic plastic bead? Explore the forces on the bead or slow time to see the interaction with the laser's electric field. Use the optical tweezers to manipulate a single strand of DNA and explore the physics of tiny molecular motors. Can you get the DNA completely straight or stop the molecular motor?

This resource provides a nice example of how osmosis happens  through a membrane. It includes definitions, examples, analogies, a chance at writing a hypothesis, an experiment with a log to keep track of results, and graphs to record data.

Our Coast, Our Future (OCOF) is a collaborative, user-driven project focused on providing coastal California resource managers and land use planners locally relevant, online maps and tools to help understand, visualize, and anticipate vulnerabilities to sea level rise and storms.

This quick-lab provides a concrete experience with crystal formation from saturated salt solutions that can help students make solubility problems more relevant to their experience.

This course will provide students with the fundamentals of computational problem-solving techniques that are used to understand and predict properties of nanoscale systems. Emphasis will be placed on how to use simulations effectively, intelligently, and cohesively to predict properties that occur at the nanoscale for real systems. The course is designed to present a broad overview of computational nanoscience and is therefore suitable for both experimental and theoretical researchers. While some aspects of the simulation methods such as numerical algorithms will be presented, there will be little if any programming required. Rather, we will emphasize the intelligent application (as opposed to “black box” use) of codes and methods, and the connection between the computer results and the physical properties of the problem.

"The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people."

⁠—Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and the first woman to serve as Solicitor General of the United States.

As one of the three branches of the U.S. federal government, the Supreme Court is an essential part of civics education. In this lesson, students will learn about the structure and purpose of the Supreme Court and analyze the landmark Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) case about student free speech in schools. Once students have analyzed the case and its significance in U.S. history, they will participate in a research-based simulation about student free speech and social media before their own Supreme Court.
What are the Constitutional responsibilities and powers of the Supreme Court?
How does the judiciary system function alongside the other two branches of government?
How does the Supreme Court protect your First Amendment rights?
Analyze the Constitutional roles and responsibilities of the judiciary system and the Supreme Court.
Analyze Supreme Court rulings and develop an evidence-based argument regarding the First Amendment.
Simulate how a Supreme Court case is researched and argued, and evaluate the proceedings and outcome.

Help Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus from Exrinction is a website dedicated to the survival of a unique species of octopus - or is it? How can we tell if a website is a credible source? Even if it looks good on the surface, is that information true? Use this website to teach students how to evaluate a website for it's usefulness and credibility.

This iTunes U course/lesson is an overview of how to write a MELCON paragraph. In order to access the course, one must first access iTunes U through the Apple iTunes store, and then search for Paragraph Writing within the Courses category. The course is free and accessible on PCs and iOS devices.

Lesson objective: Understand that shapes can be partitioned into two equal shares that we call halves, and that those two shares together equal one whole.
Students bring prior knowledge of modeling and composing shapes from Grade K, Unit 15, K.G.B.5. This prior knowledge is extended to introduce part-whole relationships of shapes as students partition shapes to demonstrate equal shares that we call halves. A conceptual challenge students may encounter is partitioning shapes unequally because they think that any two parts equal halves.
The concept is developed through work with basic shapes, like rectangles, which support an introduction into thinking about fractional parts of a whole (something students will need to know in future grades).
This work helps students deepen their understanding of equivalence because when a whole is partitioned into halves, the halves must be equal parts of the whole. Additional evidence of equivalence in these key concepts is that 2 halves equal 1 whole.
Students engage in Mathematical Practice 3 (construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others) as they help a student partition her rectangular room into equal shares.
Key vocabulary:
equal shares
Special materials needed:
pattern blocksshape cut-outs

Students create a folder to track themes throughout a text. The folder contains pockets for students to collect text evidence for each theme identified. The teacher can use this for formative and summative assessments. Students can determine which themes are prevalent and use these to write a literary analysis.

Typically, American mortgage lenders will offer potential borrowers a menu of loans, each of which bears an interest rate and an extra amount of "interest" that the borrower must pay at the inception of the loan. This extra prepaid interest is generally referred to as "points" and is computed as a stated fraction of the initial loan balance. The menu generally permits the borrower to "buy down" the interest rate by paying points. If the borrower thinks he or she will hold the underlying real estate for a long period, it is often a good idea to pay points. On the other hand, if the borrower thinks he or she is likely to sell the underlying real estate in the near future, points are often not a good idea.

Play with one or two pendulums and discover how the period of a simple pendulum depends on the length of the string, the mass of the pendulum bob, and the amplitude of the swing. It's easy to measure the period using the photogate timer. You can vary friction and the strength of gravity. Use the pendulum to find the value of g on planet X. Notice the anharmonic behavior at large amplitude.

Play with one or two pendulums and discover how the period of a simple pendulum depends on the length of the string, the mass of the pendulum bob, and the amplitude of the swing. It's easy to measure the period using the photogate timer. You can vary friction and the strength of gravity. Use the pendulum to find the value of g on planet X. Notice the anharmonic behavior at large amplitude.

Experiment using pennies,  water. lemon, and salt to create a battery to power an led light
includes a materials list 
a video of the experiment
an explanation of the concept  behind the battery

This resource is an interactive activity that helps students analyze and determine whether the plotted data is a linear, quadratic, or exponential function.  If the teacher logs in, a code pops up for students to enter into their own device and student responses are collected and reported.  It would be a great activity to use with iPads.