Links for Students

Music and Musicians Database

https://www.laphil.com/about/watch-and-listen

Brought to you by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, this site allows people to browse music by title or composer. One can search for biographies of composers, conductors, musical artists, or even Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians. When conducting a search by composer, it displays upcoming performance dates at Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring that person's pieces. Also included are audio samples of various musical works.

Calculate Pi by Throwing

Frozen Hot Dogs

http://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Pi-by-Throwing-Frozen-Hot-Dogs

Math has never been more fun! This site features the steps for a Monte Carlo Simulation that uses random numbers to solve a problem. Students throw frozen hot dogs and measure the number of times they cross lines that have been placed down beforehand. Once students are finished throwing the hot dogs, they then multiply the number of tosses by two divided by the number of crosses on the lines and they will have an approximation of pi! The site contains specific details for conducting this experiment.

Archimedes' Laboratory

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/workshoptorquato.html

Funbrain

http://www.funbrain.com/

Factory Tours USA

http://factorytoursusa.com/

80 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

MENSA FOR KIDS

An awesome place for curious kids with spiffy sites, cool articles, fun games,

and brain-building tips.

http://www.mensaforkids.org/