Discussion and explanation of health during the Middle Ages with special focus on treatment, patients, surgery, myths and superstitions.

Discusses the homes of the Middle Ages. Why they were built, how they were built, and the design in their building. Also included are kitchens and the homes of the wealthy.

Description of the entertainment that occurred during the Middle Ages. Types of instruments and involvement in religious life discussed.

A great starting point for learning about the weather and for finding help starting your own investigation of what affects the weather. Site is organized into the following sections: "The Atmosphere," "The Water Cycle," "Powerful...

Covers a variety of forecasting-related topics including storms, snow and ice, and the tools meteorologists use to make predictions.

Description of the feudal life during the Middle Ages with special attention given to England. The Magna Carta and its results are discussed as well as the life of peasants.

Describes the society of the Middle ages and the effect of the Plague on these societies of the Renaissance.

Describes the rise of a new middle class during the Italian Renaissance and the resulting growth in Italian cities.

A website devoted to the challenge of reducing solid waste for the good of our environment.

Overview of the motives behind the exploration of the "new world" during the Renaissance. Discusses the trading that took place between the "new world" and Europe and various riches offered in Mexico and Latin America.

Focus on the emergence of the printing press and bookmaking. Humanism and other new philosophies of the Renaissance mentioned as well. Also, check out other links to learn more.

This interactive activity allows you to change an equation's numbers in an attempt to figure out what operations are being used to control the answers.

This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.

Explore parallax which causes each of your eyes to produce slightly different images. Then imagine yourself an alien and try to predict which images each of your four eyes see.

There are special interest groups for many purposes, and you likely belong to one without even knowing it. Find out which groups might be of interest to you.

Identify real-world cases of boundary interactions and predict the most likely future geologic outcomes. In the lightning round, unscramble four geologic terms.

Reflect on a medieval tapestry and write a story about what you think is going on. Read stories that other site visitors have written about the tapestry.

Watch as a physical stack of coins is added as a series of dots to a line plot.

Study inscribed angles in semicircles and quarter-circles. What conjectures can you make about the measure of an inscribed angle in semi- or quarter-circles?

A stem and leaf plot is a graphical representation for investigating variation. You will convert an ordered stem and leaf display grouped by tens into an ordered display grouped by fives.

Apply the reasoning and proof standard to a problem based on the Fraction Tracks game. Students practice building fractions by combining fraction pieces.

Practice converting lengths from one British unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.

Practice converting mass from one British unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.

Practice converting mass from one metric unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.