Students take a numerical and tabular look at finding the maximum value of an open box constructed by folding a rectangular sheet of material with cutout square corners. They also understand the concepts of independent and dependent variables.

This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.

Learn about the different kinds of breads people eat around the world. Includes audio narration.

This interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," use your knowledge of bridge design to match the right bridge location in a fictitious city.

Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books like these as models to write their own math-related books about animals. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

The popularity of podcasts is growing by the day, and an increasing number of educators are utilizing podcasts as a source for information, as well as an option for students to showcase their learning. This session will explore different platforms that host podcasts and how to share podcast episodes with students. We will also examine free tech tools that would allow podcasting to be part of the curriculum.
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Here is a list of British artists as well as links to a biography about them, and photographs of their famous works.

A beautifully illustrated museum site for younger students that presents ancient Egyptian life, geography, mummification, pharaohs, pyramids, and the like.

Read Charlotte Bronte's "Shirley." The novel is set in the north of England, specifically Yorkshire, in the later years of the Napoleonic Wars and the time of the Luddite riots.

This website provides the full text of Emily Bronte's novel, "Wuthering Heights." There is a brief paragraph introducing the context, characters, and significance of this "tale of heartbreak and mystery."

This 1954 statement, issued by a group of black educators, strongly endorses the Supreme Court's Brown ruling.

This sampling of newspaper editorials from the mid-1950s reflects the range of public opinion and responses to the Brown decision.

Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words and images. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

The learning resource is a guide to a better understanding of butterflies. Some topics discussed are the identification, food, and life cycle of the butterfly. In addition to an information guide the activity has images of butterflies.

In this video segment from WGBH, children make a dam with dirt, sticks, and stones to try to stop the flow of water.

In this lesson students will build and learn how to use three weather. They will use these instruments to collect weather data over a period of two weeks.

Students will learn how to draw a line of best fit for a set of data using m&m's and a "Bungee."

This resource describes the occupations pertaining to aircraft mechanics. Learn about the work environment and expected salary.

Read about the work of engineering, science and computer systems managers, their training requirements and the prospects for these occupations.