Forces on Point Charges
Students explore interactions between charged point particles. They first explore graphical vector addition and then use vector addition rules to explore the net forces on charged particles. The preconstructed templates used in this activity include charged particles and forces of interactions be...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forces-on-point-charges
Electromagnetism
Students use an animated diagram of a magnetic field and a coil. Students rotate the coil and determine the number of magnetic field lines passing through the coil at a given angle. Students graph the relationship and then consider the rate of change of the magnetic field.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electromagnetism
Electromagnets
In this activity, students will create a solenoid-type electromagnet using two different methods of coiling the wire around the core. They will use a sensor to determine the relationship between the number of turns of wire and the magnetic field strength for each method.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electromagnets
Entropy
In this activity, students will investigate entropy from the point of view of microstates, macrostates, and probability. The goal of the activity is to help students better understand the relationship between probability and entropy. Students will learn that, in the case of the second law of ther...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/entropy
Skills of Science - Doing Unit Conversions
In this lesson, students will be introduced to doing unit conversions with TI-Nspire.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--doing-unit-conversions
Limaçons: A Polar Investigation
This activity allows students to investigate the properties of limaçons in the polar forms of both r =a +b*sin(θ) and r =a+b*cos(θ). Using a slider, values of a and b change as students investigate looped or flattened limaçons, as well as, cardioids. Students examine symmetry and the effect...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/limaçons-a-polar-investigation
Cipher Solvers
In this code breaking activity, students are challenged to identify patterns, unravel clues, and triangulate a point on a treasure map.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cipher-solvers
T³™ Regional Summit: Colorado| Texas Instruments
Join us in Tennessee for professional development. Learn how to use TI technology, plus receive a graphing calculator and software with registration. Get more info. T³™ Regional Summit: Colorado| Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/for-teachers-and-teams/regional-summits/2025-colorado-summit
Plan To Attend 2023 Virtual T3IC | Texas Instruments
Get ready for some professional learning! We’re excited to bring you another virtual teacher conference — Virtual T³IC — on Sept. 30, 2023, at 9 a.m. Central time. Join us for a day full of live, interactive sessions that’ll enhance your teaching and show you new ways to use TI technolo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/plan-to-attend-2023-virtual-t3ic
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
...el like it may seem like something that should go without saying, but Sophia understands it’s not always that simple. (After all, there can be a lot going on in students’ lives and she was no different.) For many of her followers, creating that routine to be more dedicated to studying was somethi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...alculators should not be the end goal, but one of many tools and resources to increase student achievement overall or within a targeted area. To avoid this pitfall, you should ask yourself: What is the funder interested in funding? What does my target audience need? Can I tailor my proposa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time graphs. They learn to change the shape of the plot by adjust...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-me
Forensics Case 8 - No Dumping: Using soil characteristics to link suspects to a crime scene
In this activity, students measure pH, conductivity, and water absorbency of different samples of soil. They use these characteristic properties to identify soil samples. They use the physical and chemical characteristics of soil samples collected from suspects to determine whether a suspect had ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-8--no-dumping-using-soil-characteristics-to-link-suspects-to-a-crime-scene
Exponential Reflections
In this activity, you will investigate the inverse of an exponential function. You will also investigate the symmetry of the exponential function and its inverse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-reflections_1
Critical Points and Local Extrema
Visualize the connections between the critical points and local extrema.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/critical-points-and-local-extrema
Secrets in the Triangle
Students will use the geometry screens of the TI-Nspire™ to find points of concurrency by constructing the altitudes, perpendicular bisectors, and medians in triangles. The Euler Line will be found and extensions given.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secrets-in-the-triangle
Shortest Distance
Students will discover, through exploration, that the shortest distance from a point on a line to the origin is a measure of a perpendicular line segment. You will investigate this minimization problem and support the analytical explanations with interactive explorations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shortest-distance
Shortest Distances
Students will explore three situations involving distances between points and lines. First, the minimum distance between two points leads to the Triangle Inequality Theorem. Then, the shortest distance from a point to a line is investigated. Finally, students find the smallest total distan...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shortest-distances
Derivative Function
Transition from thinking of the derivative at a point to thinking of the derivative as a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivative-function
Perpendicular Bisector
In this activity, students will explore the perpendicular bisector theorem and discover that if a point is on the perpendicular bisector of a segment, then the point is equidistant from the endpoints. This is an introductory activity, where students will need to know how to change between pages, ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perpendicular-bisector_1
Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
Students will use the graph of the sine function to estimate the graph of the cosine function. They will do this by inspecting the slope of a tangent to the graph of the sine function at several points and using this information to construct a scatter plot for the derivative of the sine. Students...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivatives-of-trigonometric-functions
Transformations: Reflections and Rotations
This activity is designed to be used in a middle-school or high-school geometry classroom. An understanding of labeling points in the coordinate plane is necessary. This is an exploration using reflections to move a polygon about the coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations--reflections-and-rotations
Perspective Drawings
In this activity, students will draw figures in one- and two-point perspective, comparing and contrasting the two types of drawings. They then create an isometric drawing and compare it to the other drawings.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perspective-drawings
"Picking" Your Way Through Area Problems
Students will discover Pick's Theorem by finding the relationship between area and the number of boundary points and interior points of a lattice polygon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/picking-your-way-through-area-problems
Applications of Critical Points
Students will examine the relationship between critical points and local extrema through real-world examples. Students will zoom in on the critical points to see if the curve becomes linear to determine if the function is differentiable at the critical point. They will then discover that the sign...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-critical-points