Discusses diabetes as a serious public health problem. Very comprehensive site with information on diagnosing and living with the disease, health insurance issues, prevention, and more.
This website helps students understand what the Central Intelligence Agency does and how they do it. It provides links to help students learn about the CIA, the various jobs available in the CIA, and how to become a CIA expert. It also provides fun stories and games.
In this activity you will be working with chemical reactions. In this activity, a cell phone has been dropped into a lake. Students will need to develop a device that that uses a chemical reaction to prevent a phone from sinking.
The Craft in America Education Guides feature artists, objects and segments from each of the television episodes and are organized by episode, below. These interdisciplinary standards-based guides bring craft to your classroom. Download lesson plans that educate, involve, and inform students about how craft plays a role in their lives, with connections to American history and culture, philosophies and science, social causes and social action.
The Craft in America Education Guides are written to support middle and high school art education curricula. We've set up suggested lesson plans that you can personalize to your classroom, based on age and interests. We've included links to videos and other places to learn more, so that you can go further on a particular subject or example. The guides can also be adapted for use in other subject areas. The purpose of the guides is to deepen students' knowledge, understanding and appreciation of craft in America and to inspire creativity in the classroom and beyond.
Students animate an ocean wave, then tell a story that takes place on the high seas.
Two characters meet in a world and discover a surprising object. Students get to decide what happens next by creating a story with code.
Students pick a name or word and bring the letters to life through animation, sound, and music.
Students create animations, interactive artwork, photograph filters, and other exciting, artistic projects using code.
Students complete a set of offline, unplugged activities introducing computer science concepts that show how technology keeps us connected.
Students provide details about a character who is missing a school assignment and use code to describe the character's actions, thoughts, and words.
Students will choose an everyday hero from their own life and build a story or game using code that gives their hero superpowers.
Students bring the Google logo to life using code, utilizing programming and design.
Students program a conversation between two characters to explore the role of dialogue in storytelling.
Students build fashion-themed programs including a fashion walk, a stylist tool, and a pattern maker.
Students explore Figurative Language with an emphasis on metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, and idioms.
Students work in pairs, tell the story of how their friendship started, and imagine a company together.
Students learn basic video game coding concepts by making different types of games, including racing, platform, and launching.
In this collaboration between Cartoon Network and CS First, students tell a story using the characters from “The Amazing World of Gumball.”
Students create a new presentation, or take an existing one, and make it interactive.
Students play musical notes, create a music video, and build an interactive music display.