TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stormy Skies
Students learn that wind and storms can form at the boundaries of interacting high and low pressure air masses. They learn the distinguishing features of the four main types of weather fronts (warm fronts, cold fronts, stationary fronts...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Electric Switches
Lesson focuses on how switches control the flow of electricity. Students are posed with the challenge of designing and building a simple switch into an electric circuit.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Rot and Rubbish: The Rancid Truth About How Much Food We Waste
Explore the math of worldwide food waste, with focus on percentage, in this infographic from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students predict the percent of food in each of the various categories (e.g., grains, fruit, etc.)...
Mathigon
Mathigon: Probability and Discrete Math: True Randomness
This lesson focuses on randomness; it explains that what we often think of as random is only random because we do not have the tools to make better predictions. However, true randomness does exists -- at the very foundations of matter. A...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Watch That Plant Grow
This lesson allows learners to explore horticulture within a controlled environment, a greenhouse. Students engage in hands-on activities as they grow their own plants and chart data concerning the conditions related to plant growth in a...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Stock Market Price History
Each of us seek to make wise investment decisions that will make our money grow. Unfortunately, we cannot predict the future, but the past can give us a window to understanding the risks and rewards of investing in the stock market. This...