Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson provides an introduction to the integral in the sense of finding the length of a curve. In the lesson, student deconstruct a cycloid (formed by following a piece of tape on the...

In this activity, students are instructed to build a tower using kitchen sponges and toothpicks. They draw their tower in detail, then deconstruct it. Next they build it again using the drawing, but must change one variable, e.g., use a...

This PDF lesson plan prepares students for multiple portions of the AP Language and Composition exam (specifically, the multiple choice section and the rhetorical analysis prompt) by analyzing a brief text which students will be able to...

Young scholars examine the fallacies that surround them every day, deconstruct fallacious images and messages in advertisements, and demonstrate their understanding of the fallacies through multimedia presentations.

This site provides an overview of literary terms and critical theories, compiled by a professor of English who teaches at the university level.

Definition, applications, lesson plans and individual theorist modules are all offered on this site. Includes links to other web resources as well.

Buy bombs and detonators, and then use them to demolish each structure so that the rubble ends up below the marked height. Take care not to get hit by the rubble.

This site has the definition of "Infomercial," and includes explanations of the infomercial equivalent in print media and on the internet.

This resource provides a narrative survey of the history of Western philosophical thought. Provides a general description of different philosophical questions and how they were answered.

A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...

Here are nine common critical approaches to the study of literature based on X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Literature: An Introductionto Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An autobiographical text about a young man who grew up interested in taking things apart to find out how they work, and how that later became career. A question sheet is available to help students build...

Students explore stereotypes in the media and representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a two-week period and then re-envisioning them with a "comic character makeover."

Find out about the four cornerstones of computational thinking, and how these contribute to task completion and learning.

Defines various critical approaches in brief. Click the Critical Theory link at the bottom of the page for more detail.

This lesson focuses on analysis including defining analysis and listing the essential skills of analysis.

As web companies strive to tailor their services to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview....

In this interactive students click on one of the black statues to break them down into shapes; then they reconstruct the statue by putting the puzzle pieces together, which shows the animal that it represents and replaces the statues...

In this lesson students analyze media coverage of current issues and present their findings in a formal research paper and class presentation.

How can we help students to move beyond summary and toward interpretation? A combination of digital popular culture modeling, heuristics, and choice - along with digital composition - can initiate that process. Interpretation combines...

Read a passage about deconstructionism and literature and answer the follow-up questions.

Give students the chance to write their own Reader's Theater script! Small groups choose their genre, compose summaries, use their knowledge of story structure to deconstruct the text and turn it into a new creation, and finally rehearse...

This video [14:45] A Kid's Survival Guide to TV Advertising from Consumer Reports Television helps children understand television advertising by showing tricks advertisers use to fool viewers, revealing facts that ads don't provide, and...

Postcolonial Web provides an overview of Political Discourse, Colonialism, and Post Colonialism.