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Space Math @ NASAThis NASA websites allows grades 3-12 to explore how mathematics skills are applied in space exploration. Free downloadable e-books, multimedia math modules, and other resources explore subjects like black holes, space weather and astrobiology. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Memorial Day InfographicsStudents can use a variety of infographics to learn the history of Memorial Day and investigate wartime sacrifice. Resources also include suggestions for designing your own inofraphic, using readily available statistics and online tutorials. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Radical CartographyYale historian and cartographer Bill Rankin offers a unique approach to cartography with his website Radical Cartography. After exploring Radical Cartography, students can use other online map-making tools to create customized projects. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Finding Information on the InternetUC Berkeley Library offers an online tutorial covering search strategies, search tools, recommendations for evaluating web pages and other resources that will be of interest to educators and secondary students. | Background Reading | |
Google Search EducationHelp your students become better searchers. Google Search Education provides lessons, activities, posters, tips, and webinars to help teachers hone their own and their students’ web search skills. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Printable | |
MinutePhysicsMinutePhysics is a YouTube-based collection of 56 brief animated videos explaining concepts in physics, mathematics, science, and other subjects. Students will appreciate that concepts are explained simply and succinctly. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Computer History MuseumThe Computer History Museum maintains twelve online exhibits on a variety of topics related to the history of computing. | Background Reading | |
Curiosity: NASA’s Next Mars RoverCuriosity: NASA’s Next Mars Rover is a NASA website that gathers mission information on Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory, which landed on Mars August 6th, 2012. Find lessons, activities and resources related to the event. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
HippoCampusFree multimedia resources for middle school, high school, and college students on subjects like algebra, chemistry, history and government. Many of these resources would work well on an interactive whiteboard. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Exploring Space through MathThis website from NASA will help students in grades 7-12 develop a deeper understanding of key mathematical concepts, and learn how to apply those concepts in the context of space exploration. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
The Transit of VenusOn June 5, 2012 Venus will cross the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that will not be seen again until the year 2117. Learn more about the historical and scientific significance of the event, and how you and your students can view it safely. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
WebExhibitsWebExhibits is an interactive and cross-curricular museum of science, humanities, and culture for K-12 and higher. Exhibits explore color, color vision, pigment, calendars, daylight savings time, poetry, Van Gogh’s letters, Bellini, and butter. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
International Consortium of Investigative JournalistsResources for high school journalism students include tutorials on data analysis, interviews of investigative reporters, tips for debunking myths with online tools, and advice for harnessing social media. | Background Reading | |
Me, Myself and MathThis six-part series of essays by Steven Strogatz, a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University, examines our place in the cosmos through the lens of mathematics. Each essay includes notes, citations and links to related resources. | Background Reading | |
Arts Across the Curriculum, Grades 6-8Our hand-picked resources for grades 6-8help you integrate music and visual arts with social studies, math and science. | Best Practice | |
Arts Across the Curriculum, Grades 9-12Our hand-picked resources for grades 9-12 help you integrate music and visual arts with social studies, math and science. | Best Practice | |
Arts Across the Curriculum, Grades K-5Our hand-picked resources for grades K-5 help you integrate music and visual arts with social studies, math and science. | Best Practice | |
Motivate: Maths Enrichment for SchoolsWith this website from University of Cambridge, students discover practical applications of math to real world problems. Use a deck of cards to illustrate a mathematical model of how disease spreads. Multimedia packs explore Babylonian math concepts. | Learning Game; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
EdheadsEdheads features 15 interactives using science, technology, engineering, and math concepts for students in grades 2-12. The interactives for grades 2-8 deal with technology, for grades 7-12 surgery, medicine, and biology. | Learning Game; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
InteractivateInteractivate houses free, online science and mathematics activities, lessons, and discussions in the form of dialogs. It includes stand-alone tools for analyzing or organizing numbers and data, a dictionary of math terms used, and standards. | Learning Game; Lesson Plan | |
IlluminationsThe National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) website Illuminations houses a collection of 607 PreK-12 lesson plans and 108 online activities to support math education. | Learning Game; Lesson Plan | |
Annenberg Learner’s Interactives22 learning modules from Annenberg Learner provide activities that improve skills in math, science, language, history, and arts. Though a few resources are aimed at elementary students, most are intended for secondary. | Learning Game | |
Architect Studio 3DStudents in grades 5-8 design houses and share them with others. They explore architecture and learn about Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work while gaining practice in subject skills. | Learning Game; Multimedia | |
NASA: Practical Uses of Math and Science (PUMAS)Why don’t clouds fall out of the sky? Why is it unsafe to tailgate on the freeway? Students discover the answers to these questions, and many others, through the 79 activity ideas, submitted by scientist and engineers to this NASA website. | Lesson Plan | |
FDIC Money Smart - A Financial Education ProgramCurriculum on the basics of handling money and finances for young people. | Lesson Plan; Multimedia |
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