Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Thought Experiment O Logy Card
Learn what thought experiments are and the role they play in furthering scientific thinking by turning over this interactive OLogy card. Find questions and answers, fast facts, and similar bite-size pieces of information.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Schrodinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment in Quantum Mechanics
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, what will be the state...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mary's Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment
Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment in Probability
Imagine a game played with two players and two dice: if the biggest number rolled is one, two, three, or four, player 1 wins. If the biggest number rolled is five or six, player 2 wins. Who has the best probability of winning the game?...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Train of Thought
Try out your ability to think like Einstein by working through two thought experiments that help explain how satellites stay in orbit and how the speed of light affects the universe.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: His Experiments
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site samples Galileo's experiments with falling objects, projectiles, inclined planes, and pendulums.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Shaping Your Thoughts?
This is an experiment that explores certain aspects of how your brain pays attention. In this project, you'll have to recruit volunteers to take a simple test: naming a list of printed shapes. What makes the test tricky is that words...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Would You Opt for a Life With No Pain?
Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life. The only catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind. Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald explore Robert...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Can Schrodinger's Cat Teach Us About Quantum Mechanics?
One great example of quantum physics' weirdness can be shown in the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment. Josh Samani walks us through this experiment in quantum entanglement. [5:24]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Random Thoughts
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students that random patterns often contain seemingly un-random subpatterns. Students experiment by flipping a coin a number of times and then looking for "runs" of heads or...
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum: Leonardo: Experiment, Experience, Design
A media-rich examination of Leonardo's work that includes a timeline of the artist's life, animations of his drawings that attempt to unlock something of the genius in his thinking, up-close details from his notebooks, thematic looks at...
Other
Thoughtful Learning: ccss.ela literacy.w.7.3.e
Choose a lesson or unit to teach how to write a conclusion to a narrative that reflects on the narrated experience.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Gravity and the Human Body
Our bodies function necessarily under the presence of gravity; how blood pumps, a sense of balance and bone growth are all due to life in a world where gravity is an inescapable reality. Armed with experiments from neuroscientists David...
University of Notre Dame
Und: Properties of a Pure Substance [Pdf]
Often we find that different phases of pure substances can exist in equilibrium with one another. Let us consider an important gedankenexperiment (Latin-German for "thought experiment") in which we boil water. Ordinary water boiling is...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Infinite Hotel Paradox
The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it's completely booked but one person wants to check in? What...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Zen Koans: Unsolvable Enigmas Designed to Break Your Brain
Puqun Li details the bewildering and ambiguous philosophical thought experiments these Buddhists called Zen koans.
Other
Abc: Exploring Media and Materials
A great lesson idea to set up stations in your classroom and let students experiment with art media. Let them discover on their own new ways of working with materials and how each medium could be used to evoke something from the viewer....
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Conformity and Obedience
Dr. Boeree's thoughts, theories and ideas expressed on conformity, obedience and non-conformity in society. Reading examines conformity in society and social experiments.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.3.b: Use Dialogue and Descriptions of Actions
Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3.b: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3B: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Paper Plate Simile Books
Students experience the fun and creativity of similes, ultimately describing themselves using comparisons and illustrations. The students' final product is a paper plate book of illustrated personal similes.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Feelings
Through the exercises presented at this website, students with "Learn that other kids experience the same kids of emotions as they do," "That it's important to understand what we're feeling," and "That we can often benefit by discussing...