Poker Experiment
This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet simulates the basic poker experiment of dealing 5 cards from a standard deck. The random variable of interest is the type of hand.
Where Have We Been? Tracing Family through a Timeline of National History
This lesson plan introduces students to examples of how wars and technological developments have impacted the movement of people throughout United States and world history. Students will learn about the effects of political, technological, and geographical issues on the population of one North Carolina community. Listening to oral histories by North Carolinians, students will hear first hand accounts about the impact of wars and road building on Madison County. Using a timeline depicting events
Interstate Highways From the Ground Up
This lesson gives students a first-hand opportunity to hear about the planning and effort it takes to build a highway through an oral history of a North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) resident engineer. Through his oral history, students will learn about "the largest single construction project in the history of the NCDOT." That project is also known as the I-26 corridor in Madison County, North Carolina. This lesson encourages students to think about the enormous impact of highwa
John Travoltage
Make sparks fly with John Travoltage. Wiggle Johnnie's foot and he picks up charges from the carpet. Bring his hand close to the door knob and get rid of the excess charge.
Kamchatka: Siberia's Forbidden Wilderness
These lessons are designed for earth science and biology students in middle and high school classrooms, though extension suggestions for older and younger students will allow you to adapt each lesson for younger and older audiences. The lessons are designed to complement the Living Edens: Kamchatka program; each lesson will indicate clips from the program that focus on the topic at hand, though the lessons function equally well as stand-alone content.
From Page to Stage
Musical theater book writers, lyricists, and composers have long looked to literature for their inspiration and subject material. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast literary works and the musicals they inspired. Utilizing video clips and Web sites, students will compare specific passages from original texts to moments in Broadway musicals on which they were based, and analyze similarities and differences between the two. As a culminating activity, students will try their hand at
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
In this lesson plan, students study the biography and work of F. Scott Fitgerald. They learn how the author used autobiographical elements in writing his stories, and they try a hand at writing a Fitzgerald-style story with autobiographical elements of their own.
Lesson 11 - Love is in the Air
(Due to lack of interest in the enhanced version of the podcast I am going to stick with the audio only version. Below is the Valentine's Day enhanced show converted into .mp3 file)
Привет! Hey there, all you Russian language addicts and all those who have just subscribed. Welcome! (Добро пожаловать!)
Pulleys
This is an activity in which students need to calculate how much effort, and how many pulleys are needed to lift different loads. This object is also designed for presentation via Windows-based hand-held devices.
Shapes
This is an activity that shows how changes in the diameter of a circle affect the circle's other attributes; how changes in a rectangle's width and height affect its other qualities; and how changes in a triangle's width and height affect its other attributes.This object is also designed for presentation via Windows-based hand-held devices.
Simple Circuit
This is an activity for circuit testing. This object is also designed for presentation via Windows-based hand-held devices.
Un pranzo all’italiana
Op het einde van deze les kun je een boodschappenlijstje opstellen aan de hand van een recept.
Buone condizioni meteorologiche a Canazei
Op het einde van deze les kun je aan de hand van een weerbericht plannen maken om je dag in te delen op vakantie en kun je spreken over het weer.
Essential Science for Teachers: Physical Science: Session 2. The Particle Nature of Matter: Solids,
In-depth interviews with children that uncover their ideas about the topic at hand.,This segment shows that the student may confuse an image of an atom with cells. This segment may be useful to alert teachers to the confusion some students have between molecules and cells, referred to as "molecell" in the research (Arnold, 1993- see Driver p. 25).When the student was asked if he had ever seen a picture of an atom, he replied that he had seen the nucleus and electrons but then corrected himself b
Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science
In-depth interviews with children that uncover their ideas about the topic at hand.,The interviewer uses the phenomena of Mt. Everest's formation to elicit the student's thinking about how the mountain formed. He asks the student to represent her ideas in a drawing. The student reveals that she has an idea of the 2 land masses slowly "drifting" and coming together but struggles with the idea of what it is drifting on. She seems to confuse weathering away of land masses by ocean currents as a me
Multiplying Two Digits by One Digit
Lesson on multiplying two digits by one digit. Larry explains how to do multiplication by hand. He shows the procedure for solving examples of multiplication problems with pencil and paper. More lessons at: http://www.MathWithLarry.com
Stem-and-Leaf Plots
Students learn that a stem-and-leaf plot is set up as a
two-column table with stems of the given numbers on one side and the leaves of the given numbers on the other. The stem of a number is the digit or digits on the left side of the number, and the leaf of a
number is the final right-hand digit. Students also learn that a
frequency chart is a table that lists each member of a data set along
with the number of times (the frequency) that the member appears.
ABC Phonics Song With Sign Language
In this video, you see four presentations of the alphabet: 1) the graphical letters themselves; 2) the sounded names of the letters; 3) the sign language hand shapes of the letters, and; 4) the phonic sounds the letters make. (1:59)
ABC Phonics Song Using Sign Language
This video is an alphabet song that goes through each letter name and its accompanying sound. In addition to showing the letter and stating its name, the video also has a small child and an adult hand making the letter using sign language as well.
Hand Washing - CDC
Scientists estimate that people are not washing their hands often or well enough and may transmit up to 80% of all infections by their hands. From doorknobs to animals to food, harmful germs can live on almost everything. Handwashing may be your single most important act to help stop the spread of infection and stay healthy. Video interviews with doctors stress the importance of proper hand washing technique. Video has captions. 3:39 min.
