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Wnet: Thirteen: Frontier Life: Recreation and Leisure Time on the Frontier
Read about how the homesteaders on the American frontier added a little levity to their otherwise harsh frontier life, and in particular how women, how spent much time at home, worked to add variety to their lives. From a companion essay...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Top Builder Challenge
Students were challenged to create something powered by rubber bands. Check out the winners and runner ups. Can you recreate theirs or create one of your own?
TES Global
Tes: Twelfth Night (2009) Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson from the Royal Shakespeare Company which includes the social and historical background of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, several activities including the use of poems and paintings, and a...
University of Chicago
Ancient Mesopotamia: Hands On! The Invention of Writing [Pdf]
A lesson that allows young scholars to recreate activities that took place in a Mesopotamian school.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Made Clear: How Are Humans Impacted by Extreme Weather?
The extremes in weather have an impact on businesses, communities, recreational activities and anything else that depends on the weather.
Other
Bio Ethics Education Project (Beep): Animal Ethics
The tutorial examines animal ethics. Topics explored are animals in research, animals as recreation, animals as food, and animals at work. The resource consists of articles, questions, additional resources, and activities.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:you Be the Coach
Investigate the essential physical skills needed to play a sport. Explore why sports, athletics or physical activities should be an important part of teens' lives.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Bscs Helps Students, Parents, and Teachers Connect With Nature
BSCS Science Learning has developed this resource to help students, parents, and teachers get away from technology and formal learning and spend some time connecting with nature. Included are links to resources about the benefits of...
PBS
Idaho Public Television: Wetland Facts
Dialogue for Kids, a program on Idaho Public Television, offers facts, information, and images of wetlands. Learn what a wetland is, where they are located, the future of wetlands, the effect people have on wetlands, and more! Classroom...
Other
Tread Lightly: Tl Kids!
Five different activities, including a quiz, hiking checklist, interactive maze, coloring pages, and story builder, teach the importance of enjoying the outdoors in a safe and responsible way.
Other
Corporation of the County of Haliburton: The County of Haliburton
Haliburton is an Ontario county that is renowned for it tourism due to the regions many lakes and rivers. Information is provided on the areas government, economy and tourism activities.
Can Teach
Can Teach Lesson Plan: Graphing Constellations
In this lesson plan, students practice their graphing skills by following directions to recreate constellations.
University of Florida
University of Florida: Sport Clubs
Information on sport clubs at the University of Florida. Contact information is provided if you are interested in joining.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Fencing
A curriculum intended to teach beginners the sport of fencing. Includes a calendar of activities, readings, and video demonstration for the course.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Archery
A curriculum to introduce the sport of indoor target archery. The course includes lecture materials, calendar of activities, suggested reading, and video demonstrations that emphasizes the care and use of equipment, safety, techniques,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Tennis
A curriculum to introduce the basics of tennis as a sport. Course focuses on the basic stroke techniques with drills to give students a working knowledge of single and double tactics. Curriculum includes a calendar of activities,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Watch It Slide!
Students use inclined planes as they recreate the difficult task of raising a monolith of rock to build a pyramid. They compare the push and pull of different-sized blocks up an inclined plane, determine the angle of inclination, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ding! Going Up? Elevators and Engineering
Students create model elevator carriages and calibrate them, similar to the work of design and quality control engineers. Students use measurements from rotary encoders to recreate the task of calibrating elevators for a high-rise...
PBS
Newton's Apple: Frisbee Physics
This teacher's guide from Public Television's Newton's Apple discusses and illustrates the physics principles governing the flight of a frisbee. Includes teacher lesson plans, activity ideas, discussion questions, and information about...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Reading Exercises: Comprehension, Sequencing & Summary
Choose your story, then answer the multiple choice questions, recreate the story in the proper order, and summarize the action using the interactive exercises.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Physical Intelligence
A curriculum that is used to develop balance, agility, flexibility, strength, and an appreciation for physical intelligence. Curriculum includes lecture notes and assignments.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Life on Plymouth Plantation
For this activity students will be discovering about the early Americans by looking at a recreation of Plymouth Plantation in 1627.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Replicating Colors: Using Tints, Shades and Primary Colors
For this activity, students are asked to mix paints that match a muted color they choose, in order to create a formula for the color. Other students then try to recreate their color.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Egg Cellent Landing
The purpose of this activity is to recreate the classic egg-drop experiment with an analogy to the Mars rover landing. The concept of terminal velocity will be introduced, and students will perform several velocity calculations. Also,...