Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Strategies
Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Word Detective
In this instructional activity, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Water Sensor Quickly Detects Algal Poison
A new sensor can detect poisons from harmful algae within minutes so that drinking-water plants can start timely treatments.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Detective Elmo: The Cookie Case
Critical thinking is the spotlight here as you help Detective Elmo save Cookie Monster and crack the cookie case!
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare's Secret
Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Computers of Future May Be Able to Detect Boredom
Read about the development of a computer that may be able to detect when users are becoming bored. Includes video.
Library of Congress
Loc: Become a Historical Detective
Search American Memory collections and play the role of a detective in this instructional activity that seeks to find out if Billy the Kid really was killed by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo Playing Historical Detective
Students become detectives, reading and analyzing documents and artifacts as clues to the life of a nineteenth century woman, Annie Steel. The students then use various materials to create a series of collages.
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Pest Detective
As a Pest Detective in this game, you must identify the type of pest infestation in a house, and how it happened. You have two cases to solve - The Case of the Collapsing House and The Case of the Gruesome Bite. Once you have examined...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer
In this project, students are challenged to answer the question "Is there a way to detect the presence of tumors that isn't as painful as mammography but more reliable and quantifiable than a breast-self exam or clinical breast-exams?"....
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Dying Detective
This site provides the complete etext of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Dying Detective."
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Word Literacy: Adjective Detective
A collection of animated lessons on adjectives, followed by a simple quiz and detective game. comparative describing superlative
NASA
Sci Jinks: A Brief History of Lightning Detection
When was the very first lightning bolt detection device used? Find out and discover the evolution of the process.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Young Innovators: Detecting Land Mines
A learning module that begins with "Young Innovators: Detecting Land Mines" by Robert Siegel, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Blue Ribbon Readers: The Detective's Notebook Game
An online learning game where students read the notes in a detective's notebook and make inferences and predictions to solve the case.
University of Canterbury
Cs Unplugged: Unit Plan: Error Detection and Correction
This unit and lessons explores how digital devices detect and correct errors in data, and why sometimes computers can detect errors, but don't have enough information to correct them.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Detect a Supernova
Just now, somewhere in the universe, a star exploded. In fact, a supernova occurs every second or so in the observable universe. Yet, we've never actually been able to watch a supernova in its first violent moments. Is early detection...
Other
Word Detective
The Word Detective provides great information on the origin of certain words and phrases that are everyday lingo. Click on Index and chose from the alphabetical list or type the word you are looking for in the search box.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" by Arthur Conan Doyle
This is the full text of the short story "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes.
BBC
Bbc: Emotion Detecting Tech Should Be Restricted by Law Ai Now
A leading research centre has called for new laws to restrict the use of emotion-detecting tech. The AI Now Institute says the field is "built on markedly shaky foundations". Despite this, systems are on sale to help vet job seekers,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cefoxitin Disk Diffusion Versus Mec a Pcr for Mrsa Detection
Read the passage and study the graphics about Cefoxitin disk diffusion versus mecA PCR for MRSA detection, and then complete the five-question quiz.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Double Barrelled Detective
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, Double Barrelled Detective.
Eduweb
Eduweb: A. Pintura, Art Detective: The Case of Grandpa's Painting
Play the role of a 1940s-era detective and discover the artist of a mystery painting by examining its style, composition, use of color, and subject. Involves comparing and contrasting the work of Raphael, Titian, Millet, Van Gogh,...
Other
Indigo Image: Counterfeit Detection
Learn about what counterfeit printing is and how it is detected. Also learn about measures that are taken to prevent counterfeiting.