 Crystals
Polyhedra in the Classroom ||
Suzanne's Math Lessons
Students studying polyhedra enjoy seeing the structures as they occur in the real world. Crystalline structures can be categorized into seven crystal systems. Students can access links to photographs of beautiful crystals. Paper models of crystals can be made by printing out nets of crystals and constructing the models. CrystalMaker software gives students experience with ball-and-stick, space-filling, wire-frame, stick, dot surface cloud, and polyhedral models of crystals.
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- Real world crystalline structures.
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- The seven crystal systems with links to photographs of examples.
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- Print out and construct paper models of nets.
 On the Web
- Web sites about crystals.
- The Isometric (Cubic) Crystal System
Java applets which show some of the major forms for the Hexoctahedral Class (symmetry 4/m3bar2/m) of crystals.
- CrystalMaker 2.0
Interactive Crystallography - download the CrystalMaker demo for regular or PowerPC Mac's.
- Loes Modderman Microscopic Science-Art
A collection of different and very small crystals, pictured through the microscope.
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