Students study the variables that affect transportation of shipments and the factors that affect deterioration of a perishable product.  In this transportation lesson students discuss the pros and cons of team driving. 

Carson Pirie Scott Company Department Store (Chicago)

Filene's Department Store (Boston)

Wanamaker's legendary department stores were palaces of consumption that turned shopping into an event for ordinary people.

Find out about the renewable energy resource using biomass technologies. Learn about the three main types of biomass and how the stored energy from the sun is captured for use.

Describes the connection between eggs and salmonella poisoning, and overviews safe practices when handling, storing, cooking and eating eggs.

A basic manual on how to handle and dispose of laboratory materials safely. Includes a lesson plan on how to read a materials safety data sheet.

A Louis Sullivan-designed 4 story building, now apartments over commercial space.

The US Department of Labor site offers substantial information on the Pharmacy Technician Career. Page provides employment projections detailing nature of the work, employment training, job outlook, and earnings potential.

In Module 1 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons. Content is stored in the Resources section. Practice tasks are not available online so teachers would need to...

In Module 2 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about formulas, functions, and manipulating a spreadsheet. Content is stored in the Resources section. Practice...

In Module 3 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about adding shapes and graphics to spreadsheets, using drawing tools to format them, using the autosum function,...

In Module 4 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about building charts, using conditional formatting, and enhancing their spreadsheet by inserting images, text, and...

In Module 5 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about working with large spreadsheets, using advanced functions to analyze data, working on more than one workbook...

In Module 6 Lesson 4 of this course on spreadsheets, which is the final lesson of the course, students review what they have learned in the previous three lessons about using templates, using data validation tools, and importing data...

This timeline includes selected events in business technology, media, marketing, and advertising for 1850-1920.

In this activity, students can use geometry to determine the optimal location for a distribution warehouse of a department store chain.

In this "Five Senses" game, George is headed to Mabel's Department Store to pick up some items, but he needs to remember what they are. Help George identify items by what they look, smell, sound, taste, or feel like.

A giant sized table made of wood houses a large collection of minerals from the periodic table. Click on any wooden tile to discover what the element looks like and details about its atomic structure and uses. The author even tells you...

In this Derive activity, students explore equations of curves which pass through a set of given points. They use this method to determine the location of a distribution center which is equidistant from the outlets of a large department...

You can't keep them down on the farm! Read about the glamour and allure of the city in the late 19th century where electricity and skyscrapers, along with other thechnological advances, enticed people into the city from the country.

Good site for historical overview of the rise and fall of the New York Hippodrome. Also mentions a one of its early productions, "A Yankee Circus on Mars".

This video highlights various careers in logistics that are available in and around the Lehigh Valley. Paul Davis from Nestle discusses how Nestle owns their own trucks and that his division manages using those trucks to deliver products...

Famous for department stores, "The Grand Depot." "Wanamaker's" is usually considered the first department store.