Technovation
Technovation Families (Formerly Curiosity Machine)
Technovation provides hands-on STEM activities. Students will watch an inspiring video about suspension bridges. Studentswill create their own bridge that must support at least 15 pennies.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number Curiosities App
This App illustrates and animates interesting facts about numbers 0 through 25. Students investigate factorization, geometric characteristics, and both mathematical and real-world interesting facts related to that number.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mars Rover App Creation
Based on their experience exploring the Mars rover Curiosity and learning about what engineers must go through to develop a vehicle like Curiosity, students create Android apps that can control LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots, simulating the...
NASA
Nasa: Mars for Educators
A wealth of educator resources for studying Mars. Includes lesson plans relating to Curiosity, imagining Mars, and classroom activities exploring Mars.
NASA
Nasa: Eyes on the Solar System
Are you ready to ride the Curiosity to the surface of Gale crater? This 3-D environment created with NASA mission data allows students to experience space and time. With this website students can also hop on an asteroid, fly a Voyager...
Google
Access Mars
Access Mars lets you explore a 3D replica of the Martian surface, exactly as it was recorded by the Curiosity rover.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "Curiosity Can Lead to a Fall"
A poem about a little fairy who learned that being too curious can be dangerous.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Curiosity: Wanting to Know More
This article discusses the importance of being curious and ways to foster it in young people.
NASA
Nasa: Martian Diaries
Learn what Mars is like from Martians! Well, people that are working on the Mars mission. This blog site contains firs-hand accounts on what is information is being recovered from Curiosity.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Questions No One Knows the Answers To
Designed to drive curiosity, Chris Anderson shares his boyhood fixation with quirky questions that seem to have no answers. [2:11]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: On the Surface
After studying this concept, learners will be able to identify the types of data that can be collected by the science instruments on board the Curiosity rover.
New York University
Nyu: Charles Dickens, Annotated Literature
See Literature Annotations on Charles Dickens' (1812-1970 CE) "The Bleak House," "A Christmas Carol," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "Doctor Marigold," "The Old Curiosity Shop," "Our Mutual Friend." Commentary included.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do
In this talk Gever Tulley encourages us all to allow flames of curiosity in our kids to be fanned and fed rather than forced to face the fire extinguisher.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: An Introduction to the Tang Dynasty (618 906)
Scholars often refer to the Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1279) dynasties as the "medieval" period of China. The civilizations of the Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1279) dynasties of China were among the most advanced civilizations in the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Cyberchase: Collection
Cyberchase is the Emmy-winning animated series full of math and environmental adventures. It features three diverse kids, known as The CyberSquad, who use brain power and problem solving skills to outwit and outsmart the villain Hacker...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nova: Web Original Collection
Since 1974, NOVA has been the most watched prime-time science series on television. The NOVA website has been pioneering new forms of original web content since it debuted in 1996. NOVA's mission to make science accessible to viewers and...
Character Lab
Character Lab: Build Connections for Classrooms: Curiosity
Lead your students to understand how their existing interests relate to the content they learn in school by using this scripted activity. This 30-minute activity can have benefits across the curriculum. Printables and examples of...
Other
Curiosity in the Classroom: Calculating Degrees of Freedom of Robotic Arm [Pdf]
A lesson plan to explore the movement of robots. Students will investigate the number of directions a robots arm can move using a simple construction set. An advance lesson to calculate the degrees of freedom using the Grubler's formula...
Other
Curiosity in the Classroom: Principles of Encryption [Pdf]
In a world where people are sharing information every second online, securing that information is paramount. In this lesson students will understand the principle of encryption, how to decode encryption, and how to construct ciphers. The...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Box of Robbers" by L. Frank Baum
This is the text of the short story "The Box of Robbers" by L. Frank Baum; a story of how a little girl's curiosity got her into a strange situation.
Other
A Natural Curiousity: Margaret Drabble
Read a short summary of Margaret Drabble's novel "A Natural Curiosity." Includes a short biography of the author.
Other
Instructional Design: Creativity
This article provides a short introduction into some of the psychological views concerning curiosity. It provides a long list of references for further research.
NASA
Nasa Space Place: The Mars Rovers
Learn why rovers are important and details about the Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Cabinets of Curiosities
An image of "Cabinets of Curiosities", created by Georg Hainz in 1666 (Oil on canvas, 115 x 93 cm).
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