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from Free Tech 4 Teachers blog: "Loop Scoops is a series of eight videos about consumerism from PBS Kids. Each short (1-2 minutes) animated video features a short story with little lesson at the end. If students miss the lesson in the video they can click the "what's the deal?" button to read the lesson. The overall intent of Loop Scoops is to get kids thinking about the products they use everyday. The videos present lessons about what common products are made of, how those products are made, and what happens when a product is trashed." Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff) helped direct the project

This tool features a problem-solving activity in which you must transfer blocks of different sizes from one tower to another. The activity is based on a game invented by the French mathematician, Edouard Lucas, in 1883. The rules are that you can only move one block at a time and that a larger block may never lie on top of a smaller one.

This is an interactive activity in which students classify various plants and animals, including organisms such as a frog, jellyfish, venus flytrap, bat, human, and seaweed. The categories into which students place these organisms include Animals, Things With Webbed Feet, Fish, Things That Lay Eggs, Mammals, and others.