Modeling Judging a Poster Contest
In this TI-Nspire family activity, students use the ratings made by five judges in a poster competition with the goal of deciding the top three posters based on the ratings made by the judges.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-judging-a-poster-contest
Big Data Sets - Climate Change
Students can explore different sets of data associated with climate change with respect to variables such as temperature, precipitation, and natural disasters by state and by regions in the US.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-data-@-climate-change
Modeling Mantid Striking Distance
In this TI-Nspire activity, students investigate the relationship between how hungry a praying mantis (also called a “mantid”) is and the distance at which the praying mantis will strike (jump) at prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-mantid-striking-distance_nspire
Modeling CO2 Levels
This activity uses data on monthly carbon dioxide (CO2) levels collected from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. It provides an opportunity to engage students with data that is relevant to contemporary discussions of climate change.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-co2-levels
Local Linearity
Students explore zooming in on various functions including piecewise functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/local-linearity
Parabolic Hoops
In this coding activity, students will create a virtual basketball court. Using the location of the hoop and the vertex, the shooter will calculate the amplitude needed to “Swish” nothing but net!https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parabolic-hoops
Lights on the International Space Station
In this lesson, students will discover how various factors affect lighting by using different types of flashlights and battery strenghts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lights-on-the-international-space-station
Cybersecurity 6- Brute Force
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 5, the student hacker will now attempt a brute force attack to decrypt the hashed password. The students will observe the key differences between this and the rainbow table method.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-6
When Water "Leaves"
In this lesson, students will explore the effects of various environmental conditions on the rate of transpiration from the leaves of a plant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/when-water-leaves
Transcription and Translation
In this lesson, students will use simulations and models to interact with both the transcription and translation machinery.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transcription-and-translation
Cellular Respiration
In this lesson, students will use different simulations to explore three pathways involved in cellular respiration.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cellular-respiration_1
Altitude to the Hypotenuse
Explore the relationship between the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse in a right triangle and the lengths of the two segments formed when this altitude intersects the hypotenuse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/altitude-to-the-hypotenuse
Diffusion Data Collection Lab
In this lesson, students will use varying molarities of a salt solution to observe diffusion through a membrane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/diffusion-data-collection-lab
Contingency Tables and Chi-Square
This lesson involves deriving and interpreting the chi-square as an indication of whether two variables in a population are independent or associated.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/contingency-tables-and-chisquare
Arctic Wars - Lynx vs. Snowshoe Hare
In this lesson, students will investigate a population with cycling patterns that exist between a predator and its prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arctic-wars--lynx-vs--snowshoe-hare
Biodiversity and the Environment
In this activity, students will observe model environments, adjust abiotic variables in those environments, observe the results of those adjustments, and then draw conclusions about the effects of the abiotic world on the biotic world.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/biodiversity-and-the-environment
Which Fish?
In this lesson, students learn about basic fish biology and will identify a variety of fish species.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/which-fish
DNA Structure
In this lesson, students use a variety of simulations to interact with the structure of DNA in order to explore the building blocks and double helical structure of DNA.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dna-structure
Heart and Lungs - Making Them Work
In this lesson, students will study the effect of exercise on heart rate, respiratory rate and air flow in and out of the lungs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/heart-and-lungs--making-them-work
Light Me Up!
In this lesson, students will explore from a macroscopic level what actually occurs on the microscopic level when electrodes and a source of DC electricity are placed in a solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/light-me-up
Molecular Titration
In this lesson, students explore a simulation of a pH titration that includes a molecular view of the chemical changes that occur as a strong base (NaOH) is added to a beaker containing a strong acid (HCl) solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/molecular-titration
What Makes Us Stick Together?
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to understand a macroscopic view of what occurs microscopically when two nonmetals react.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-makes-us-stick-together
Creating a Midpoint Quad
Explore special outer and inner quadrilaterals formed by the connected midpoints and investigate the area relationships.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/creating-a-midpoint-quad
Swimming with Acids and Bases
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to observe at the molecular level the difference between strong and weak acids and bases.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/swimming-with-acids-and-bases
Balancing Chemical Equations
In this lesson, students will use the simulation to generate chemical equations and to balance these equations by observing how products are formed from reactants.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-chemical-equations