You don't have to be an ancient Egyptian to decipher fractions in this activity that focuses on adding fractions with unlike denominators and developing fraction number sense. Egyptians represented fractions differently than we do. They...

Collaboration and complicity. Class members examine a series of photographs and consider how active participation and passive complicity represented in the photos contributed to the Holocaust. 

Design a plan for finding the best health insurance for your money. Learners compare two health plans by writing and graphing piecewise functions representing the plan rules. Using Excel software, they create a technical report...

Sometimes, taking things apart is more fun than putting things together. Groups of learners participate in a reverse engineering activity. They dissect a device of their choosing to see how it works—great hands-on learning from the...

Handout that leads students through an exploration of the visual and audio elements of a video advertisement as well as the effect these elements have on the intended audience and the community as a whole.

Outline of the steps involved and the questions to ask in critically assessing a print advertisement.

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...

[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...

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...

Using an article from Dateline Hollywood, this lesson explores a media message and examines its content.