examines the social conditions in Mexico before and after independence from Spain and the impact of internal conflicts between people of different social castes.

CAST is an educational non-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people. Their goal is to produce innovative learning technologies based on their research. Learn more about integrating and applying this...

Learn about Universal Design for Learning, which uses new brain research and new media technologies to respond to learner differences. Check outcome suggestions of how to use UDL and easily integrate various forms of technology into the...

Everybody knows that worms are good for the soil, but not everybody knows why. Here's a project that investigates just one of the ways earthworms improve the earth.

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members show you how to make your very own electroscope. You can use it to find out if an object is electrically charged. [4:17]

A fun casting project to try using clear packing tape. On this site there are step-by-step illustrated instructions plus video and pictoral examples.

It is May 1812. America is on the brink of war and President James Madison is encouraging you to listen to different perspectives of possible outcomes. What do you think of the issues- and the decision to go to war? Listen and read about...

A collection of over four hundred satirical prints (made in Britain and continental Europe) of Napoleon. Related historical essays on the prints themselves and on the cast of characters depicted in them round out the site. Also includes...

Directions on how to cast on and off with pictures to use as a reference. Great for the knitting beginner.

This resource provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students.

Website where actors can create profiles and search casting calls. Monologues and scenes to use for audtitions can be searched by various criteria (gender, source material, period, type, and main action and/or emotion involved.

This site focuses on contemporary sculpture, painting, and installation art. View work from modern artists in the Bay Area. There is even extensive information on the process of bronze casting found in the "learn" section.

This site offers links to an action plan a for school-wide intervention program. It includes a PDF of the principal's action plan outline, links to web casts of the intervention plan, and a video about the sounds of the English language...

William is a Scottish boy who is learning about the sun and how it casts shadows. Try to help him find out.

It's a mathematician's dream come true. An easy trick for checking mathematical computations, without a calculator! Believe it or not, it works with all four operations.

Engage students in the outdoors by searching for fresh animal tracks and making molds of them. Then investigate which animal might have been there.

This lesson focuses on a voter's need to be fully informed prior to casting a vote on Election Day and how to acquire the necessary information.

Take a one-minute tour through the history of sculpture. View a variety of sculpture techniques and be a sculpture critic. Visit the sculpture studio and learn about carving, casting and modeling. Meet artists, and see them at work....

Wonderful photographs and animations explain how the Chinese of the Shang and Zhou dynasties (ca. 1600 B.C. to 256 B.C.) cast bronze. Excellent site for studying how the Chinese made bronze, one of the important technologies of ancient...

These activities encourage young people to join the debate about how to stage and cast Othello. They will debate the pros and cons of different productions and plan how they would stage the play if they could do so themselves. Included...

A theory and practice that is becoming more familiar to teachers today, this article introduces differentiated instruction, and describes components and helpful guidelines for differentiating instruction.

Read women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony's 1873 speech on women's right to vote, given the year after she was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election.

Directions on how to cast on and off with pictures to use as a reference. Great for the knitting beginner.

Directions on how to cast on and off with pictures to use as a reference. Great for the knitting beginner.