This site is a letter from a Graduate Student who believes he has discovered a connection between ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, and the Castor bean. The site also provides responses from scholars at various universities...

Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...

Students analyze their social networks using graph theory. They gather data on their own social relationships, either from Facebook interactions or the interactions they have throughout the course of a day, recording it in Microsoft...

Social media can be a place to connect, learn, and, most of all, share. But how much do kids know about what they're sharing - and not just about themselves but each other? Help young scholars think critically about their digital...

Starts with a simple definition of a network and then explores the components of a network, how a network works, types of networks, communication protocol, and hardware.

This resource offers students and adults information in order to help young people socialize safely online.

Deforestation causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all trains, planes and automobiles combined. Suzanne Simard examines how the complex, symbiotic networks of our forests mimic our own neural and social networks- and how those...

Get independent practice working with networks and Euler circuits. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.

Learn that the internet is a network of computers connected to each other. But what does each physical connection look like? It depends on the needs of the connection and the size of the network.

America's interstate highway system cut through the heart of dozens of urban neighborhoods. Congress approved the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, authorizing what was then the largest public works program in U.S. history. It promised to...

A staggering 25,000 workers lost their lives. And artificial limb makers clamored for contracts with the canal builders. In a quest to fulfill a centuries-old dream to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the builders of the Panama...

The teacher of this Grade 1/2 class won the 2006 Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History for this project. Students explored the history of grain elevators in Alberta and connected their disappearance on the...

The definitions and comparisons between Local Area Networks (LANs), and Wide Area Networks (WANs).

This guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands their offline life with their digital one. The guide offers practical advice on a variety of activities kids like to do online, including...

This instructional activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales'...

Global exportation and importation increased when water routes opened up. This unit analyzes how this affected world trade as well as the spread of population, religion, and illness.

ORBIS is an incredibly complex, and fascinating, geospatial compilation of 751 Roman sites over an area close to 4 million square miles. The model attempts to shed insight into how the Roman Empire functioned as a whole, and how it was...

Graph theory is a visual way to represent relationships between objects. One of the simplest uses of graph theory is a family tree that shows how different people are related. Another application is social networks like Facebook, where a...

Learn about the physical connections in computer networking.

Learn the basics of computer networks.

See how the change in weather and precipitation creates vernal pools and a connection of isolated habitats.

From social media to massive financial institutions, we live within a web of networks. But how do they work? How does Googling a single word provide millions of results? Marc Samet investigates how these networks keep us connected and...

Explore how binary information is sent and how quickly they can be sent.

Students analyze dramatic works using graph theory. They gather data, record it in Microsoft Excel and use Cytoscape (a free, downloadable application) to generate graphs that visually illustrate the key characters (nodes) and...