Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Synesthesia and Playing Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
How can a pack of playing cards accurately explain the complicated and nuanced neurological condition, synesthesia? TED-Ed animators explain the process of creating an original animation from planning to fruition, including the special...
Article
Other

Cult of Pedagogy: 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2020

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article reviews six learning tools and apps that teachers and students will find very useful. Includes two more tagged under 'honorable mention.' (Published January 7, 2020)
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Life's Little Questions: Frozen Droplets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate the use of stroboscopic disks to study actions that are too fast for the naked eye, and construct a stroboscopic viewer to demonstrate how a gated view of dripping water may produce the illusion of "frozen" motion.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Imagine Life Without Friction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students are introduced to the concept of inertia and its application to a world without the force of friction acting on moving objects. When an object is in motion, friction tends to be the force that acts on this object to slow it down...