Young scholars explore the amount of electricity used and wasted in homes and at school using kilowatt meters. In this environmental energy instructional activity, students compute power usage by appliances over time and identify...

It's time to wake up! Young engineers build an electric circuit that will activate an alarm. The use of switches in the circuit is a must—because you don't want the alarm to keep beeping forever!

Digital, analog, and now binary clocks? The activity teaches individuals how to interpret binary code. They use an online software program to read binary clocks.

Students apply binary code in software applications for computer engineers. For this binary code lesson, students read about binary code and its applications to computer engineers. They download software and read an online binary clock....

In this computer worksheet, students read about computers and the definition of a computer. They build a simple computer using two rulers and learn to add numbers using the computer they build. They answer three critical thinking...

Students visit a website that takes them inside of a computer to see how it works. They investigate the people who contributed to computer technology.

This site describes the history of computer innovations beginning with early mechanical devices to the electronic devices of the 20th century.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of the history of computing hardware.