Young scholars analyze the costs and benefits of using credit cards to purchase goods and services.

Students use Elsie's tips and techniques for hand quilting in one day-long session or two shorter sessions. You'll mark intricate quilting designs, discover a tried-and-true basting method.

Young scholars make color selections and make sure they are aware of correct strata construction for this innovative combination of straight lines and gentle curves creates zingy but easy-to-make quilts.

Students listen to examples of Japanese folktales and identify universal themes. Students construct a 'kamishibai' - a traditional Japanese storytelling prop - and dramatize a folktale through puppetry.

Second graders hand stitch three different appliqué stitches using triangles as a motif.

Fourth graders estimate the measurements of trees using unconventional techniques.

Students create an leaf print banner, and classify, sort and find patterns in the leaves as they work.

Students discuss and compare immigration during the 18th century to the Connecticut River Valley to that in America during the turn of the century.

High schoolers explore emigrants deciding to leave the United States and the events that lead to their decisions.

Students examine the migration of rural African Americans to northern cities following World War !!. After predicting the effects of cultural and economic factors, they write essays explaining the impact of migration on communities and...

Students study the reasons so many immigrants returned to the South following the Civil Rights Movement. They examine how the former slaves influenced the cultural life in the Northern cities.

Students see that there are many different kinds of wilderness. They study equipment and supplies to see how they differ for different types of wilderness experiences. They discuss ways to allow access to wild places without damaging them.

Students discover how the Canadian Parliamentary works and how to tolerate other people's point of view by participating in a model Parliament.

Eleventh graders research S/Sgt. George Oiye, who fought in the 522nd Field Artillery Battallion. They examine the roles and sacrifices of this soldier, then answer questions.

Students study the characteristics of magnets including polarity, and the concepts of attraction and repulsion. They examine how magnets are used industry.

Students create marbled prints by dipping paper through starch and acrylic paint.