High schoolers examine how aerodynamic forces affect the flight of aircraft, animals and sports balls and projectiles (like a javelin or boomerang). They discover the origins of the boomerang and early usage in hunting.

Students investigate the concepts and relationships of speed, displacement and time. They capture the serve motion of a tennis player via video or digital camera and analyze the speed of the ball and racquet head.

Students research a person, present or past, who has accomplished great goals. They report on their person to the class.

Students discover how wi-fi works in walkie talkies and computers. They also examine wi-fi wireless network coverage areas and campus locations in which data was taken to measure usage. They complete graphs based on the usage for...

Students examine various environmental health issues related to ports and the shipping industry. As a class, they generate a systems model related to the ship- salvaging industry. Then in small groups, they create their own systems model...

Students research the legend of Tanabata in order to explain some of the astronomical findings in the night sky. The Japanese tell the story in order to explain the origin of celestial bodies.

Students develop and recognize positive traits and random acts of kindness through modeling, positive reinforcement, class discussions and activities and charting the traits. This continues throughout an entire year.

Students create kind sentences or compliments for each classmate in this feel-good lesson ideal for a Language Arts classroom just before Winter break. The lesson includes examples of positive comments and detailed instructions.

Students identify key American inventors and their contributions to modern day America. Students identify that many inventions arise from one invention. Students investigate why certain inventors are important to modern day America and...

Students witness the gas law from a demonstration in which a can collapses after the steam escapes. The steam pushes out most of the air from inside the can and then the air outside presses against the can crushing it.

Fifth graders view Mysteries of Earth & Mars Video on DVD and record thoughts in their online journal. They record data in a spreadsheet about each planet then form a theory of the best time to launch a space craft from Earth to land...

Fourth graders identify and use different forms of writing for various purposes. Using the internet, they read and gather information and write quesitons for their own investigations on the various pets they could own. They practice...

First graders give examples of words that have the /i/ sound. They make the /i/ sound with their mouths and follow along as the poster is read which contains /i/ words. They read the poster together stretching out the /i/ sound and...

Eighth graders use geo-boards to create similar and congruent figures and find their corresponding sides. Using the geo-board paper, they draw the shapes they create on the geo-boards. With partners,students create similar and congruent...

Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...

Students study various African American inventors and their contributions. They select their favorite invention and work in groups to research a specific African American inventor. After conducting their research, they share their...

Pupils develop Phoneme awareness of a letter. They explore pictures, hand gestures, tongue twisters, and sounding out the letter. The i will be represented through a picture of an i and students circle the words with the corresponding...

In this phonics activity, students respond to 4 questions by identifying the word that is the same as the word presented and circling all the words in the row that are the same.

Students participate in the random acts of kindness program. In this acts of kindness lesson, students receive a card for each random act of kindness they are associated with. They receive monthly rewards and are entered into a monthly...

Eighth graders examine the formation of craters. In this craters lesson, 8th graders discover the various energies involved in the formation of a crater, where you can find a crater in the Solar System, and observations of craters on the...

Students explore robotics. They design and draw a robot that will search for deposits of underground minerals.

This resource is composed of student questions for engineers, and provides information on a variety of scientific topics such as devising science fair projects, planning scientific experiments and getting into a school like MIT for...

The whole play is available here from MIT's Internet Classic Archive.

This MIT course on network and computer security covers topics such as security in multi-user distributed systems, cryptography, authentication, intrusion detection, and many other security topics.