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Burmese Pythons: An Invasive Species
(2018-12-17)
This is a chapter about the invasion of the Burmese Python and the effects that the snake has caused to the environment.
Phases of Venus: Riccioli, New Almagest
(2018)
The phases of Venus were an item of discussion in early modern Europe as scientists sought to determine whether it was evidence of the heliocentric system. Yet among the scientists it was anything but conclusive that this ...
Hildegard of Bingen: An Abbess for Health Care
(2015)
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of convents at Rupertsberg and Elbingen in the 12th century, explained their herbal remedies and medical procedures in her book, Physica. In addition to this work on medicine, Hildegard wrote ...
Margaret Bryan: Science Education
(2015)
Margaret Bryan was a schoolmistress for a boarding school for girls in London, in which she taught mathematics and science. She also published several popular scientific textbooks on astronomy, geography, and natural ...
Inclined Plane: Law of Falling Bodies
(2015)
Galileo described his experiment with an inclined plane in his book, Two New Sciences. In this work Galileo was operating within a research tradition in physics known as "impetus." This tradition, begun in the 6th century ...
Antología Abierta De Literatura Hispana
(2017-04)
Una antología crítica de textos literarios del mundo hispanohablante. Se enfoca en autores canónicos y también se intenta incluir voces marginadas. Cada texto tiene una introducción y anotaciones creadas por estudiantes. ...
What’s in Your Backyard?: A Curriculum Guide to Accompany The University of Oklahoma Citizen Science Soil Collection Program
(2018-08-08)
This guide was designed to support educators by helping to integrate citizen science into the classroom environment. By including research about fungi in your classroom, you are helping to foster the development of scientific ...
Madame du Châtelet: Newtonian Physicist
(2015)
Madame du Châtelet translated Newton's masterwork of physics, the "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," into French. She also defended Newton in the Newton-Leibniz controversy. This OER shoes images from some ...
Boldly Explore
(2015)
Although many attribute this iconic image to the Middle Ages, it first appeared in a 19th century work of meteorology. So it's fitting that this book will open a Galileo's World exhibit at the National Weather Center on ...
"Constellation Coloring Pages" adapted from Johann Bode, "Uranographia" (1801)
(2016)
Johann Bode, director of the Observatory of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, produced the last of the four major celestial atlases in which artful depictions of constellation figures appear alongside the most up-to-date ...