Browse Interactives

Variation in Estimates

A computer can perform random sampling and estimation faster than you can. Use the computer to help you estimate a penguin population from computer-selected random samples.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Student groups have created ads for the new village/state they are creating to entice others to join them. Read one of the ads and work backwards through a series of prompts to determine the ad's audience, purpose, genre and theme.

Discipline: Foreign Language
Audience: Teacher

Virtual Particle Lab: Compressibility of Air

Explore the particle model of matter. Run the simulations and see if you can predict the results.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Virtual Particle Lab: Dissolving

Explore what happens when one substance dissolves into another. Run the simulations and see if you can predict the results.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Volcanoes

Today, there are many active volcanoes worldwide. Is there anything we can do to predict how and when they will erupt?

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Volume Symbols

Study the names and abbreviations of volume units in both the metric and British systems. Then play a game to see how well you remember them.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Weather

Try your hand at tornado chasing and discover how wind chill works.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

What Do Revision Choices Reveal?

Read two pieces of authentic student writing before and after revision. Notice the highlighted areas in each draft and identify how they reflect specific revision strategies the students have learned and applied.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

What is Your Affiliation?

Political parties have platforms that describe their principles and issue stances in areas such as taxes, education and immigration. Answer the questions to see which party (Democratic, Republican, Green and Libertarian) is your best fit.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Student

What's Inside the Earth?

What’s inside the earth? Examine the earth’s distinct layers (crust, mantle and core) and find out.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

What's Your Definition of Arts Integration?

Start this workshop by defining what arts integration means to you. Then continue on as you explore different approaches to arts integration to expand and deepen your understanding.

Discipline: Arts
Audience: Teacher

Where Is the Player?

Examine how multiple light sources produce shadows of differing darkness and length. Move a player (with four light sources) around the field until your image matches the five other images on the page so you can identify where the player is on the field.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Where Should You Build?

Plans are underway for three large building projects near Milehigh Volcano. You must examine soil samples at each site, decide whether or not it’s safe to build and then go to the press conference to report your findings

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Which famous cathedral collapsed?

After looking at four photos of cathedrals, try to choose which one fell and see if you can determine, from the pictures, why it might have collapsed.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Student

Which One of These Elements Doesn't Belong?

Use your knowledge of groups and periods on the Periodic Table. When you are presented with three elements, pick the one that doesn’t belong.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Who Says We're Alike?

You are working for candidate Fletcher. Read his political profile, view the demographic profile of the city, and decide which random sample increment to use when you conduct your first telephone poll of Republican women.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Student

Whooping Cranes

Track the migration of whooping cranes, once on the verge of extinction. Follow new crane chicks from their hatching to the day they complete their first fall migration at 5 to 6 months of age.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Why did Copan Collapse?

What happened to bring about the collapse of Copán, once a thriving center of Maya civilization? Study evidence of its monuments, soil and plants, homes, farms and archaeological remains and use your Copan journal to record important clues.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Student

Wind Chill

Why do windy winter days seem so bitterly cold? Calculate the wind chill factor and find out.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Student

Word Tiers

Identify three tiers of vocabulary words that present new vocabulary for your students, and then categorize words by tier in order to focus your teaching.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher