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This is a general overview of the materials that go into making a snowboard. This could help with ski designs too.

learn the tools of the trade! What materials do industrial designers use to show their ideas? Specific markers and pens, even the kind of paper matter for the best results.

This website is a necessity when building a geodesic dome. With every example I have discover, every geodesic dome builder has used Desert Domes Calculator. With this website all you need to do is type in your desired dome radius and it gives you strut lengths for all three sizes (A, B, C). It gives you options for 3/8ths of a dome and 5/8ths of a dome, and how many connectors you need. This website is very easy to use. I suggest, like I learned from all my resources, to mess around the sizes of the radius to change the sizes of the struts. Lengths of materials usually come in 10ft sizes so make strut lengths where you can make the maximum amount of struts for each 10ft piece without wasting too much material. I think this website is very easy to use, and I will be using it for my model and my final dome.

Work with Nature. "How to Make a Geodesic Dome / Geo Dome / Bio Dome." YouTube. YouTube, 07 Aug. 2012. Web. 09 Oct. 2013. . This is a Youtube video sponsored by Work with Nature where a man shows on camera, step by step, his building geodesic domes (including his calculations and math). He made this video to help other people who are eager in building domes and to tell people about his business of selling these domes to people who don't want the excitement of building their own. The video uses metal piping and it covers cutting the metal, drilling holes, pressing it, attaching them, the math, the construction, what materials to use, and how to cover the dome. This video will be the most helpful tool I will use during my ILO, because as of October 7th, I have decided to use metal piping for a greenhouse and this video is the perfect step-by-step visual instructor. I will basically follow these steps exactly with maybe some background research and experiments from other websites. I have spent a lot of time on YouTube looking for other videos of this caliber, but this one is by far the best. I've read the reviews and comments for this video and it looks like other people have successfully made domes using this video. This video has already proven a huge help to me. Through this video I have made decisions like what materials to use, how to attach them, and how to do the math that is necessary in making a dome. This source is easy to use, and when you miss a step it is easy to go back and watch it until you have it down perfectly. This video has made me much more confident going ahead with my project now that I have such an easy, usable model to go off of. I highly recommend using this source if you need to make a geodesic dome.

This is a costuming/crafts store. It has tons of patterns, designs and materials to help build ideas from. I recommend this site you anyone creating a costume for a play, musical ect.

This website helped me understand the different flooring materials. I used the information I got from the site on a project that Kayla and I are doing. It was very easy to compare the types with one another. Good site, it has other tabs such as organization, kitchen and baths, how to's and more.

All of the physics problems assigned in MIT's OCW 8.0.1 Physics courseware in this book, and I use it to learn more about how the world works. Great resource for highly motivated high school student and college students.

This is one of the books referenced by the MIT OpenCourseWare Physics class. It is an invaluable resource as it contains problems assigned in the course. These problems are used to ensure that we (students) are understanding the material and more importantly understanding what material we do not yet know.

This is a site to make-your-own jeopardy games. I have used it to make review materials for the Brain Bee club I am in when I am leader of the day. It does not provide information, but if you write the questions and answers it will format your information into an interactive game that can record points for any number of teams. This site is a little different from others in that it is not necessarily reliable or unreliable because that depends on the information you put in it. It is not a source of information, but a way for you to communicate information you already have. I have found this simple site to be very helpful. I imagined myself doing a boring powerpoint when I was leader of the day, but this site gave me another option. It made sharing my expertise an activity that could involve the whole group in a fun way.

Biomimicry is how we design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes

This blog contains many specific pastry and baking recipes, though the blog contains other material alongside these recipes and instructions.

I found this site to be very helpful. The site provide me with reasonable information that I was interested in. Some of material that I was looking for was what are some of the usage of carbon dioxide.

This Google Site made by Curt Drury is an excellent example of a cheap, but very successful geodesic greenhouse. This source shows how to build the dome using PVC pipe and cutting your own connections. This will make the joints weaker, but if it worked for Drury then it is worth it to look into. He made his dome with only spending $300. This site is very useful because the creator of the dome doesn't leave out steps and projects. He was very good about recording his process as well as uploading pictures of it. I would recommend using this site, especially if you are thinking in terms of a greenhouse. This is a good reference to go back and forth to while you research and build your own dome. When I found this site and read it, I was able to make my decision that "Yes, a geodesic-dome-greenhouse is a realistic, exciting option". Once I knew it was going to be a greenhouse I could eliminate materials like wood (too wet in greenhouse for wood). This site is very helpful. I will be referring to it and comparing to it as I build my dome.

Waxed canvas has been used for centuries as a waterproof material. This is an Easy to follow Tutorial on how to make the wax and apply it. Overall a great recipe, but I don't know if I'd use turpentine...would you?

Great information and explanation on what industrial hemp is and why people may use it to better there ways of both making money and making great strong materials

Can they make fake nails out of it? :)Just thinking about your new focus.

For this "How to Paint a Mural" site, I found a lot of helpful information about what materials are needed, what type of paint I should use (which I already knew from Ms. Cleary), and what techniques I could use to paint the mural. Even though they used specific brands as some examples of paint brands, this site also gave some examples overall. Besides all of the mural information, there was other drawing and painting advice that I might want to look at another time, including different media. This site seems interesting for people that are interested in art. Not only does this site have great information, it also isn't boring looking, and you can find what you are looking for. I'm glad I looked at this site even if I saw tips and information that I already knew.