[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource guide to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is designed for the "Reel to Real" education project with the learning department of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Order free DVD at...

This article explores the real and fictional letters published in the 18th century, from the correspondence of Alexander Pope and Ignatius Sancho to Samuel Richardson's hugely popular epistolary novel "Pamela" and the works it inspired.

Discover the nature of the work done by real estate managers, property managers, and community association managers.

This lesson takes a systems thinking approach to understanding the place of artificial intelligence (AI) as a component within solutions to real-world problems.

Find out how 20th-century writers used fantasy and traditional tales to analyze and question the real world around them.

Artificial intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. The term may also be applied to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human...

This article explores the relationship of a real business cycle theory to existing and prospective countercyclical policies. (Published March 1, 1999)

A learning module that begins with "More Facebook Friends, Fewer Real Ones, Says Corness Study" by ABC News, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...

This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.

Using this infographic, learn how wage equity today compares with data from 50 years ago, at the dawn of the equal pay movement. The accompanying classroom activity invites students to explore the change in the gender wage gap from 1965...

By the end of this section, you will be able to explain recessions, depressions, peaks, and troughs; evaluate the importance of tracking real GDP over time; and analyze the impact of economic fluctuations on a country's output and price...

In this KQED infographic, find out how much an adult in different-sized households needs to make to pay for basic monthly living expenses. In the accompanying classroom activity, students solve real-life problems involving rate and ratio...

This video features the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, home to the world's largest bat. Students see the role that measurement and engineering play in making bats to professional players' specifications and are asked to consider...

This screencast focuses on the use of semicolons and conjunctive adverbs; it defines both, provides their rules, and provides examples for using them. The instructor explains ow to use conjunctive adverbs, how to punctuate the sentences...

This section introduces the transcendental number e which is a special number that is considered a natural base. In addition to exploring how to simplify and solve equations with e, this section also investigates how it can be used to...

Discover how math is required for quality construction when a Master Carpenter shares his experience and expertise. This video focuses on explaining slope as rise over run and shows how slope comes into play when building homes to take...

By the end of this section, you will be able to explain work as a transfer of energy and net work as the work done by the net force and to explain and apply the work-energy theorem.

At the bottom of this page from the Georgia State University, you will two real-world applications of the Laws of Sines and Cosines (in the context of velocity vectors.)

A definition and description of disposable personal income.

In this video, students explore Depression-era post office murals and modern outdoor murals to learn how artists use proportional reasoning and measurement to create large-scale paintings. The video ends with the question, "How do...

A lengthy essay on George Washington proposing that his real accomplishments as first President of the U.S. and winner of the Revolutionary War have been overshadowed by the myths and stories of the Cherry Tree, teeth, and no lies....

The purpose of this task is to apply translations and reflections to the graphs of the functions f(x)=cos x and g(x)=sin x in order to derive some trigonometric identities. There are also rotations 180 degrees about points on the x-axis...

Young scholars learn how currency values are set by supply and demand, and how changes in the value of currency affect international trade. Students then find the value of the Brazilian Real in 2000 and 2002, determine whether the...

Evaluate low level ozone pollution in your own state and compare it with other areas to see if you should be concerned about the air you are breathing.