Browse Interactives

Medieval M.D.

You are a doctor in the Middle Ages with three patients to cure. Read about their symptoms and decide what medieval treatment to prescribe.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Student

Meeting The Needs of Students

Generate integrated teaching activities that meet student needs, e.g. creativity, social interaction, etc.

Discipline: Arts
Audience: Teacher

Melting Rocks

Turning solid rock into liquid magma involves changing its temperature, pressure and water content. Try your hand at melting rock to create magma.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Metronomes

Compare the ticking of a metronome to a sine wave. Use interactive metronomes to explore the phenomenon of spontaneous synchronization.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Mexico

Practice some of the vocabulary and grammar covered in the Mexico episodes of Destinos.

Discipline: Foreign Language
Audience: Student

The Midline Cut

You can cut geometric figures into pieces that you can rearrange to form different geometric figures. Show how the midline cut of any triangle can be used to form a parallelogram.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

MiniMouseLab

Use a simulation to operate an elevator and see its motion. Examine the graphs that describe the motion you produce.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Monarch Butterflies

Observe monarch butterflies and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Ms. Anwar's Backyard

Use the slider on the graph to see all possible shapes of Ms. Anwar’s 2,000 sq. ft. backyard. Come up with an equation relating the length (x) and the width (y).

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Multiplication with Manipulatives

Area models can be used for many types of multiplication problems. Work with manipulatives to create area models for some multi-digit multiplication.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

The computer makes up a mystery operation and you have to figure out what it is. Keep entering pairs of numbers for the computer to calculate and try to find the pattern in the answers the computer gives until you think you know what's going on.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Name That Atom

View twelve atoms each composed of different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons. Determine whether the atom is an anion, cation or isotope and identify the element on the Periodic Table.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Name That Function

Chart graphs of three equations. State whether each graph is quadratic, exponential or linear and explain your reasoning.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Networks

Learn about the different mathematical tools used to analyze and describe networks. Practice building networks that meet specific criteria.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

A New Identity

Students have written one-paragraph self-descriptions to send to other citizens of the new state they are creating. Read one of the paragraphs and work backwards through a series of prompts to determine the paragraph's audience, purpose, genre and theme.

Discipline: Foreign Language
Audience: Teacher

Newspapers: Use Your Document Detective Skills

Read three newspaper articles, one at a time, about events of historical significance. Identify the region and era particular to each newspaper article, and answer additional questions about the topic covered.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Student

Nonstandard Units

Use the set of three triangles to build each of the outlined polygons. Then use the triangles to determine the area and perimeter of each polygon.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Numbers in Nature

Many Renaissance artists and architects used the concept of the golden mean which was thought to be visually pleasing. An Italian mathematician developed a series of numbers related to the golden mean; see if you can detect the pattern.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Student

Operations in Base Four

Strengthen your understanding of place value by looking at systems based on numbers other than 10. Work with manipulatives to calculate base four addition and subtraction problems.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Ordering a Stem and Leaf Plot

Stem and leaf plots are a method for showing the frequency with which certain classes of values occur. You will create an ordered stem and leaf plot.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student