Reference Material
Need Help Finding The Time and Date?
Need Help Finding Your Elevation or Latitude and Longitude?
- How Far is It? Enter place name in "From" section. Will give latitude and longitude for most world wide locations; elevation mostly for U.S. cities.
- U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer Gives latitude and longitude of U.S. cities in decimal format
- World map showing major lines of latitude and longitude
- PCL Map Collection Find online maps for any country or area in the world
- National Geographic Maps (Printable maps!)
Unit Conversion Calculators
- Online Conversions (Conversions for just about everything)
Temperature and Thermometer Resources
- Want to do a virtual boiling water experiment? (Need Shockwave plug-in)
- How Stuff Works - thermometers
- Make Your Own Thermometer
- Bizarre Boiling Sept 2001 Ever wonder what a pot of boiling water would look like in space? Check this out to see how liquids boil in low gravity.
Mathematics Resources
- Correlation Coefficient - Definition
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Online interactive tools for data analysis (click on scatter plot)
- Least Squares Fit Line - Practice drawing a line of best fit
- Ask Dr. Math: Statistics Q & A Archives - lots of questions and answers about regression lines, correlation, outliers, and other statistics topics
- The Math Forum - A must see for more math resources!