The Science Toolkit building block gives your students the ability to perform numerous calculations and solve equations. It includes tools for Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, and Chemistry, as well as general science-related tools.
Features
The Science Toolkit offers a growing collection of discipline-specific conversion and equation tools, including the following disciplines
- Chemistry
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Astronomy
It also contains
- Metric converstion tool
- Glossary and dictionaries
- Scientific calculator
- Periodic table
To use the Science Toolkit, students and teachers enter the individual Blackboard course and click the Science Toolkit icon. On the resulting page, click the Toolkit button at the bottom.
The full set of tools is described below.
Chemistry Tools
- Half-life calculator
- Boyle's law calculator
- Charles' Law calculator
- Combined gas law calculator
- Calculating STP and molar volume
- Radioactive decay calculator
Mathematics Tools
- Area converter
- Volumer converter
- Weight convertor
- Length convertor
- Shapes tool
- Circle tool
- Fraction tool
- Prime number tool
- Triangle tool
- Percentage tool
- Pythagoras tool
- Quadratic equation tool
- Algebra tool
- Sine, cosine, and tangent tools
Physics tools
- Resistors in parallel calculator
- Vector addition calculator
- Frequency and wavelength calculator
- Gravitational force calculator
Astronomy tools
- Magnitude calcuator
- Kepler's 3rd law
Metric conversion tools
- Length, area, volume, weight, and temperature tools
Periodic Table
An interactive periodic table gives students web access to detailed information about the elements.
Glossary and Dictionaries
Links to the following dictionaries/glossaries:
- Harcourt Dictionary of Science and Technology
- General Chemistry Glossary
- NASA's Imagine the Universe Dictionary
- Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
