Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Super People: Getting the Minerals Out

Need some help getting young football fans to focus on something besides the Super Bowl? Use a list of football-themed activities for art, math, science, nutrition, language arts, and social studies to get their heads in the game!

It's time to roll up those sleeves and get a little dirty in the second lesson of this series on the science of food. Investigate where plants and animals get the minerals they need to live in this two-part exploration of soil. First,...

Investigate innovations that assist baseball umpires in making calls. Examine the accuracy of a "line call" when compared to a taped record of a ball's exact impact location.

Examine dog food nuggets made from different ingredients to discover which nuggets are more likely to clean the teeth surface during a dog's normal chewing activity. Explore the correlation between cost of the food and its teeth-cleaning...

Explore how to keep your heart healthy by exercising regularly, sticking to a low-fat diet and not smoking. Use mathematics to understand nutritional information about various foods.

How much activity is appropriate for elementary school youngsters? What kind of activities do they need to do? Check out the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Look to see what are age-appropriate activities for each grade...

Explore the handicap of autism and the inability to recognize faces. Create a mixed-up face with the mouth and eyes flipped upside down and conduct a survey of how five people are able to describe the expression on the face.

Explore the connection of saturated and unsaturated fats to arterial plaque buildup by building models of their molecular backbones. Examine your diet to determine whether you follow the guidelines suggested by the American Heart...

Hormones, genetics, food—how exactly do people get acne? The bigger questions is how do you get rid of acne? Watch an interesting video that explains the different causes and treatments of acne.

Discover what "curling" is, and explore ways to make a curling stone move in different directions. See how kids use the scientific method to find out how sweeping affects the motion of a curling rock.