This site from Access Excellence explores how, as an educator, you can incorporate critical thinking skills into the classroom. Content focuses on how to cover content so that students can grasp information, engage with the teacher, read...

Moving away from the fantasy worlds of video games, No Way draws young scholars into a compelling real-life scenario in which they are editorial interns at a science-themed website. This classroom activity on electricity offers a fun way...

Contains plans for seven lessons about working dogs that teach critical thinking skills and a vocabulary strategy called Word Storms. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

Here's a lesson plan that combines art, music, movement, critical thinking, math, and baseball. The plan gives complete instructions, printable resources and web links, assessment, and application of national standards.

This lesson focuses on strategies for active reading such as annotating your texts, reading multiple times, and using your prior knowledge.

Contains plans for seven lessons that use Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" to teach the literary elements of plot, theme, and character to high school students. It also teaches about psychoanalytic criticism concepts such as the Id, Ego,...

This challenge requires you to design and build a device that can pass above a surface and detect magnetic fields.

This challenge is to design and build a headphone system to hear a musical instrument (real or homemade) better. Can you do it?

This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?

Can you build a blimp that hovers, and then modify it to use balloon power to travel in a straight path across the room? Try it!

Can you make a balloon hover in one spot and move without you touching it when you create air currents? Give it a try!

Your challenge is to design and build a rubber band-powered car that can crawl across the floor like a moon rover travels across the moon. Are you up to the challenge?

Can you build a battery-operated, spinning motor-powered arm that can move ping pong balls across the room? Take the challenge!

In this challenge, you will build a machine that can send a ball (golf or ping pong) at least 12 inches.

This challenge is to build a dance pad that sounds a buzzer or flashes a light when you dance on it.

This challenge is to build a four-stringed musical instrument that can play a tune on different pitches.

It's your job to design, build, and test a landing module that will provide a safe touchdown for your astronauts (marshmallows). Can you do it?

Take this challenge to design and build a rubber band-powered car and watch it go.

Can you design and build a robotic arm that can lift a cup off the table? Check this out and see!

Design and construct an environmentally safe holder for a six-pack of cans that is sturdy and easy to carry.

Show your creativity by designing and building a device that will launch confetti to your target!

Having trouble studying for tests or comprehending new material? This in-depth guide provides a multitude of ways to help you acquire reading and critical thinking skills necessary for understanding new material.

In this interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," think like an engineer and use your knowledge of dome design to match the right type of dome to the right location in a fictitious city.

This interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," explores tunneling and the tools and methods used to do the job.