TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Traffic Lights
Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Could We Create Dark Matter?
We don't know what dark matter is made of, and we've yet to directly observe it, but scientists theorize that we may actually be able to create it in the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle collider in the world. CERN...
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #12 Learning Activity: Bernoulli Cans
An easy to do activity that investigates Bernoulli's principle. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Other
Space Science Institute: Alien Earths: Search for Life
How do you recognize life on another planet? What tests do scientists use to determine if something is a life form when they are many light years away from being able to observe it directly? Try your hand at interactives to create a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weather Detectives
This is an introductory instructional activity to a second grade weather unit. The students will be observing the weather each day for one week and recording their observations in a chart. The students will be integrating information...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.6 Used Subaru Foresters
Help Jane sell her Forrester! Using the data given, students will make an appropriate plot with well-labeled axes that would allow you to see if there is a relationship between price and age and between price and mileage. Students are...