Read about the wonderful changes that take place when spring arrives. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.

This lesson is a spring themed three rotation blended learning centers activity for young learners (k-2). Students will rotate through three spring themed activities, with a teacher facilitating each center. Activities include a journal entry, a video with a Google Form assessment, and a mini-reader. 

A useful article outlining the important features of a puppet and how to successfully use them in your classroom as a learning tool. A fun look at puppets around the world is also included.

With the coming of springtime, the mud makes things very messy, something children love. Book includes audio narration in 11 additional languages with text in English.

Students explore the response of springs to forces as a way to begin to understand elastic solid behavior. They gain experience in data collection, spring constant calculation, and comparison and interpretation of graphs and material properties to elucidate material behavior. Conduct this activity before proceeding to the associated lesson.

Students are presented with a biomedical engineering challenge: Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death among women and the American Cancer Society says mammography is the best early-detection tool available. Despite this, many women choose not to have them; of all American women at or over age 40, only 54.9% have had a mammogram within the past year. One reason women skip annual mammograms is pain, with 90% reporting discomfort. Is there a way to detect the presence of tumors that is not as painful as mammography but more reliable and quantifiable than breast self-exams or clinical breast exams? This three lesson/three activity unit is designed for first-year accelerated or AP physics classes. It provide hands-on activities to teach the concepts of stress, strain and Hooke's law, which students apply to solve the challenge problem.

The video teaches the names of the four seasons, their weather, the time at which they come in a year, seasonal changes, and activities we do in each season. [2:21]

Prepared with pre-algebra or algebra 1 classes in mind, this module leads students through the process of graphing data and finding a line of best fit while exploring the characteristics of linear equations in algebraic and graphic formats. Then, these topics are connected to real-world experiences in which people use linear functions. During the module, students use these scientific concepts to solve the following hypothetical challenge: You are a new researcher in a lab, and your boss has just given you your first task to analyze a set of data. It being your first assignment, you ask an undergraduate student working in your lab to help you figure it out. She responds that you must determine what the data represents and then find an equation that models the data. You believe that you will be able to determine what the data represents on your own, but you ask for further help modeling the data. In response, she says she is not completely sure how to do it, but gives a list of equations that may fit the data. This module is built around the legacy cycle, a format that incorporates educational research feindings on how people best learn.

Book with colorful illustrations of winter and spring sights and activities. Vocabulary words are ’winter’ and ’spring’ only. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.

This pathway explores the fundamental concept of energy, and how energy can be transferred between objects. Different types of energy are defined, and the law of conservation of energy is explained. Simple machines are explained as a way of making energy transfer between objects easier. Problems are provided to check understanding.

In addition to the associated lesson, this activity functions as a summative assessment for the Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer unit. In this activity, students will create a 1-D strain plot in Microsoft Excel depicting the location of a breast tumor amidst healthy tissue. The results of this activity will function as proof of the accuracy and reliability of the students' breast cancer detection design.