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"Comparing the Costs of an iPad Classroom to the Traditional"

Great cross curricula lesson using a growing alligator to incorporate science, math, LA, and social studies.

This is a supplement to "Appy Hours 4 You" Blog Talk Radio Show: Episode 13 - "Making Mathematics App-tastic". In this episode we featured 11 free mathematics game-like apps that focused on currency/money and fractions for both elementary and secondary. For each app we shared a brief description and then multiple ways the app could be used in the classroom (e.g. stations, assessment, remediation).

Help students learn to match digital times with the analogue clock.

Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces.

Over 100 interactive, research-based STEM simulations for Grades 4-12. Click one of the STEM word in the left column to see the simulations. Also includes lessons ready to use for the classroom.

This is the main page of free teaching materials created with GeoGebra. The structure here is close to the US school system, but we also have an overview page for UK schools. If you also have created nice materials, please share them with us! See the GeoGebraWiki Help to find out how to add your own materials to the GeoGebraWiki.

Home Store About Us Grants Materials Professional Development Testimonials Field Reports Resources Galleries Email Us The Private Eye Store Our Brochure jeweler's loupe * The Private Eye jeweler's loupe [pronounced "loop"] -noun. A magical magnification tool that, when combined with The Private Eye Questions, brings out the scientist, writer, artist, mathematician in everyone. -a.k.a., Private Eyes! -verb, colloquial. Loupe: To look through a jeweler's loupe. The Private EyeDiscover the drama and wonder of looking closely at the world, thinking by analogy, changing scale and theorizing with The Private Eye. Designed to develop critical thinking skills, creativity, literacy and scientific literacy - across subjects, The Private Eye is based on a simple set of "tools" that produce "gifted" results.

If America wants to continue to be a world-leader, we can do it with a technology advantage - but only if we actually know how to leverage that technology to continue to be more productive. So, I began to write out a list of the tech skills that I think students should learn before they leave college. Ideally, these are skills that would be integrated throughout K-12 and college curricula.

Seinfeld ran for nine seasons on NBC and became famous as a "show about nothing." Basically, the show allows viewers to follow the antics of Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer as they move through their daily lives, often encountering interesting people or dealing with special circumstances. It is the simplicity of Seinfeld that makes it so appropriate for use in economics courses. Using these clips (as well as clips from other television shows or movies) makes economic concepts come alive, making them more real for students. Ultimately, students will start seeing economics everywhere - in other TV shows, in popular music, and most importantly, in their own lives.

Welcome to What2Learn - now with free accounts tailored to students in the USA and the UK. See Number Farm, our new site for little learners, make your own revision games, play one of the 20,000 games on this site or sign up for FREE access to the main system.

Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games

American Institute of Physics' Center for History, the most comprehensive online exhibit on Einstein: Image and Impact