Escaping Slavery: Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
2010 | Lesson Plan
When visiting the recommended website in this lesson, students learn about the Underground Railroad and „walk in the shoes“ of an...
Frank Lloyd Wright
Offers several pictures of 10 buildings of the famous American architect, as well as discussion of his life and work. The site offers films clips of...
Creating a Constitution for a Colony on Mars
Lesson Plan
How do we establish and maintain a colony on Mars? As the 10th grade capstone experience, students will create a Mars society that incorporates...
The Dark Horse Comes to Malawi: Famine in Africa
Lesson Plan
In this third lesson of the four part series, students briefly examine the 2002 famine in Africa and the factors that contributed to its severity,...
From Ellis Island to the Trump Wall – A Mathematical Analysis
12/06/2016
Juxtaposing the architecture of Ellis island with that of the proposed Trump Wall creates many opportunities for mathematical analysis and frames a...
Creating an Immigrant Scorecard – Creating a Formula
09/24/2014 | Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will consider and propose various factors that can be used to make decisions regarding prospective immigrants to the United...
Do you Measure Up? Area and Perimeter
Presentation
This lesson is the first in a series of four lessons which will help build an understanding of area and perimeter by using real world applications in...
Linear Functions
Demonstration
In this tutorial, „Linear functions of the form f(x) = a x + b and the properties of their graphs are explored interactively using an...
Trig River
Lesson Plan
Students learn about and use a right triangle to determine the width of a „pretend“ river. Working in teams, they estimate of the width...
A Geometric Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Lesson Plan
Students will see an animated presentation of the proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. This animated PowerPoint presentation uses shearing and the...