After reviewing the information included in this resource, you will be an expert in both the definition of project-based learning and how to implement it with your class. Discover and explore thorough explanations, detailed...

This site provides a wealth of material tailored to the needs of primary and secondary educators interested in developing their own critical thinking skills and those of their students. Content includes numerous articles focused on the...

Listed here is a wealth of information and articles all pertaining to the idea of critical thinking. Much of the information here can be useful in understanding what critical thinking is and how to apply it to your classroom.

Brain binders are great teacher sources for problem solving and critical thinking with geometry. Students fold sheets of paper to create solid colors on each side. Various levels are included starting with two folds through five folds.

As part of the larger unit, America's History in the Making, from Annenberg Learner, this interactive allows students to be curators of their own mini-museum by choosing artifacts that fit a topic of their choice under the general theme...

Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...

A collection of free learning activities that teach computer science through games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to computational thinking through concepts such...

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.

Students get a whole new perspective of the world through images obtained from the International Space Station. Students can even request images to be taken through ISS EarthKAM. Activities and educator guides are provided.

Every year a kid-friendly philosophical question is asked and students are encouraged to submit original writing, drawing, painting, or poetry that expresses their opinions on the posed topic.

"Connecting learning to the real world" is the goal of the Futures Channel. Through the use of short videos, teachers can integrate real-world examples of how math and science are used in everyday life. Complete teaching guidelines...

Modern first amendment law was formed by cases during the WWI era. Were dissent and subversive activity protected by freedom of speech? Examine five cases that answered this constitutional question. Included are the full opinions of the...

A great site from Oxfam which offers encourages critical thinking about water conservation through the use of pictures and student activities. Targeted to curriculum links for the United Kingdom, but information is certainly valuable and...

This is a fun site filled with odds and ends of science. Wacky and amazing. Fun site to browse for ideas.

Website companion to PBS show, "Rough Science," in which five scientists use their collective expertise to complete a series of tasks. Follow the scientists as they do things like generate electricity, make soap, make antibacterial...

Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...

These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.

This site is an online lesson plan exchange on "Corduroy" by Don Freeman.