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I don't know all the places this could be used, but the graph in this article contains a STUNNING amount of information. I think the math is obvious, but I envision some phenomenal social science lessons, technology insights, the evolution of science, the implied connections to the ability of societies to spread information, the differences in cost of the various innovations and why that matters .... Hope you find something cool.

What a great math hook for a middle school class! Thx to John Burk for the lead!

This is so great! What a fun teacher! Great way to talk about proportions. Love the terminology and the kids using the language, "can we rank their mulletude"? Hey, did the better looking mullets have a Business to Party (or Party to Business?) ratio that was, "Golden"?

Curriculum challenge for Science teachers in grades 7-12.

OK, a bit of a pain if you aren't paying for Education Week, but this article mirrors some of what I understand some of our math teachers to be doing with "flip" lessons.

Asking good questions is a big part of a strong inquiry-based lesson. Check out how history teachers do it.

This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.

Creative Teaching provides useful tips, suggestions, lesson plans and worksheets to creatively teach children at the elementary- and middle-school grade levels, along with suggested resources for parents and teachers. The information and materials cover content areas including reading, writing, math, science and social studies. We hope you find these useful in both classroom and homeschool environments.

In addition to providing a search engine of lesson plans and interactives from about a dozen great content partners, there some great professional development resources.

Generation Yes Blog creator (http://blog.genyes.org/) has put together this Wikispace on Games in Education. LOTS of resources to review for someone looking to incorporate "games" into a lesson.

You won't find Willyn Webb telling her high school students to put away their cell phones, even though they are technically banned in her Colorado district. She's been using cell phones to augment her lessons at Delta County Opportunity School for years.

Teachers talk about this problem from a 'restrictive" perspective, can it be a learning tool?

Greg Kulowiec has done some great work with cell phones in his classroom. You can learn more on his blog: http://kulowiectech.blogspot.com/ Specifically, he has used them for blogging and as a student response tool: http://kulowiectech.blogspot.com/search?q=cell+phones