Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to tabulate, graph and compare the future value of investments with compound vs. simple interest. Spreadsheet level: beginner.

This is an excellent clip from The Simpsons that demonstrates the concept of diminishing marginal utility and marginal analysis.

This activity has students use Fathom to test the correlation between attendance and ballpark capacity of major league baseball teams by taking a sample of actual data and scrambling one of the variables to see how the correlation behaves when the variables are not related. After displaying the distribution of correlations for many simulated samples, students find an approximate p-value based on the number of simulations that exceed the actual correlation.

A java applet that simulates the sampling distribution of the mean. It allows students to explore the effect of sample size.

This is in class lab activity where students will explore the buoyant force.

This lesson has activities where students will learn about buoyancy and explore how hot water rises and cold water sinks. As an extension and real-life application, students will see that glacial run-off is occurring at a rapid pace and the cold glacial water could potentially change ocean currents thus influencing global climates.

This activity is a classroom lab where students learn that cold water is denser and hot water is less dense than room temperature water. Students perform an experiment and relate to their background knowledge to make conjectures.

This activity is a classroom experiment where students participate or observe that different densities of liquids will yield different results in a sink-or-float activity.

Students explore and experiment with various objects to find which materials will float or sink. They record predictions and results, and generate ideas about the properties of materials that float or sink.

In this classroom/lab activity students investigate how complex machines are made up of simple machines by dissecting four common household appliances.

In this exercise, students identify and draw slices through an ice cream cone, a pyramid, and a beverage six-pack.

In this field investigation, students will identify and determine the population size of snails in an aquatic environment.

This sites provides three interactive games related to social class and personal possessions indicative of class.

This lesson will extend the learning on rocks with the Foss kit, Pebbles, Sand, and Silt to include soil. Students will perform the soil sifting activity like the one designed for rocks in the Foss it. Through their work, students will complete a Venn diagram of soil and rocks as a class.

Students will explore with solids and liquids to discover what density is. Students will be involved in small group experiments and a full group experiment. Observing, predicting, exploring and discovering are all included in this lesson.

This guided inquiry lesson allows students to make explore with materials and draw conclusions if they are a solid or liquid.

This activity is a classroom activity where the students move through learning stations to explore the properties of solids and liquids.

This is a lab activity where students will investigate solubility or miscibility of eight substances with water.