Curated OER
Expanding Children's Geographic and Economic Worlds
Students learn their addresses and gain a sense of connection between their neighborhood and the rest of the world and the universe.
Curated OER
Whose Water Is It?
Students role-play as San Francisco residents in 1908 who support or oppose the building of a dam in Yosemite National Park. They create posters and write letters to representatives defending their positions.
Curated OER
Beam Me Up Scotty#153
Students analyze population and land use data to predict future environmental problems. They use fictitious data for this exercise while pretending that they are helping aliens who have come to them for advice.
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virginia: Electronic Labyrinth: Marshall Mc Luhan and Gutenberg Galaxy
This brief article explores Marshall McLuhan's argument that the electronic age would be the key to restoring the depth of diversity that the print age had destroyed. Plenty to think about.
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University of Cambridge: Astro Adventure
Imagine a time when you can travel through space, planet to planet, cheaply and in comfort, when you can take a trip to the stars as your next holiday. Well, imagine no more. Learn more about the solar system as you take this trip of a...