Students decide on an activity like running, swimming or skating for a performance analysis. They have friends or family members videotape them as they exercise, then review the video to see how they can improve their performance.

High schoolers compare and contrast "front porch" political campaigns and modern day traveling campaigns of past presidents. Using the internet and other sources, they explore President Harding's campaign and platform. Using the internet...

In these Olympic history worksheets, students read about the ancient Olympic games and the modern games. Students complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the past and present Olympic games.

Students define kinetic energy and know the effects of weight and speed on momentum.  In this investigative lesson plan students get into groups and design a roller coaster. 

In this ESL worksheet, students focus on different English quantifiers.  Students complete 15 fill in the blank exercises using either "too" or "enough" to complete each statement and then clicking on the interactive website key...

In this video, explore the odds of winning the Powerball lottery and learn what few people realize about their chances of winning: they are miniscule. In the accompanying classroom activity, students create simple lottery models to help...

This video illustrates a visual model for solving a word problem involving the division of fractions. The problem asks students to determine the length of a losing frog's jump in a jumping frog contest based on a comparison with the...

Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, learners create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.

Explore the feelings associated with winning and losing. Model possible encouraging statements to say as a winner and a loser in a game.

This site offers links to the winning stories from MysteryNet's mini-mystery writing contest for kids. They provide good reading practice and/or models for story writing activities.

Students groups act as aerospace engineering teams competing to create linear equations to guide space shuttles safely through obstacles generated by a modeling game in level-based rounds. Each round provides a different configuration of...

An audio slideshow narrated by the set designer for the Tony Award-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." Discusses the set designer's art as well as the designer's inspirations for the sets, both the exterior scenes of Florentine...

Pioneering female aeronautical engineer Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009) (later Laurel van der Wal Roennau) had had a brief career as a model, art instructor, and deputy sheriff before training to be a pilot during World War II; she returned...