PUMAS Examples
The PUMAS examples are aimed primarily at helping pre-college teachers enrich their presentation of topics in math and science.
- You may find a number of examples that relate to your area of interest, perhaps written in different styles, and possibly taking different approaches to the material. There may also be comments/lesson plans filed with some of the examples, written by previous users.
- Use these examples as a resource -- Select, adapt, recontextualize, and present the material to your students in a way that you judge will best meet your students' needs, abilities, and interests.
- You may have ideas related to a particular example that might be helpful to subsequent users. There is an opportunity, on the "Display an Example" page associated with that example, for you to submit your comments/lesson plans.
- PUMAS examples are citable references. If you use material from PUMAS examples in other work, please cite them appropriately, e.g.: Chambers, L.H., "How Now, Pythagoras?", 07_10_98_1, The PUMAS Collection, http://pumas.nasa.gov, 1998.
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This is a good way to start, or to find examples added after a certain date. Click links below to get the list of all the PUMAS Examples, arranged by that field.
Examples by Common Keywords
by Title | by Grade Level | by Date Accepted | by Benchmark | by Author
rotation
satellite images
scattering
science in literature
scientific method
searchlight
shadow
shopping
sidereal day
significant figures
skyscraper
slide rule
small angle approximation
snow water equivalent
snowmelt
social security
soft drink
solar day
solar energy
solid earth tides
space shuttle
spectral analysis
spectrum
specular reflection
spoon
sports physics
spotlight
square root
star
star day
star distances
statistics
stirring
straw
sun
sun dial
surface area
surface tension
systems of equations
temperature
testable questions
thermal inertia
thermal infrared
thermal mass
thermodynamics
thermometer
thinking globally
time zone
timing
topo maps
topographic map
topography
traffic
transmission
triangle
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