Inventor Nikola Tesla is the subject of this extensive PBS site. In addition to information on Tesla's life and work, the site offers insight into the ways in which society and invention affect each other.

Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Students will play on online game; they will create an advertisement for a...

MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, students will learn to watch and listen to a television with a critical lense

MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. For this lesson, young students will learn how to differentiate "branded" and brands" in content. Students will also learn learn strategies and goals of advertisers.

Create a creature that uses air to create motion with this challenge. Site includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their design process.

Build a machine that accomplishes a task in an inefficient way with this Rube Goldberg challenge. Find some tips and a place to document your engineering process on this site.

Using cardboard, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and strings create a pine cone that opens and closes. This site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.

Build a zoetrope machine where you can animate a facial expression and the machine plays the animation back with this site. Site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your design process.

Using common household materials students are challenged to make a flying raptor and control its flight with attached strings. Site includes lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their process.

Lesson explore sensors focusing on ones that measure humidity. Young scholars work in teams to design, build, test, and evaluate a hygrometer which was made out of everyday materials to measure humidity levels.

The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 3 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 3. Focus of the...

This paper, presented at an international conference in Sweden, gives a thorough analysis of the computer generation. The authors analyze some of the tendencies, visions and demands of this technology-rich time.

Are you curious about mind, body, and world? Read the latest science news in this up-to-date science, health and technology portal.

This comprehensive tour gives an overview of the key features of Kidspiration.

Make connections between science, enterprise, and society here in this collection of articles and current science topics in the news. Find out how science makes connections with the daily life of human beings.

Explore color distribution of M&M candies using this detailed lesson plan. An engaging integrated lesson that requires understanding of spreadsheets and formulas, and logical reasoning. Links to related websites.

Simulation where learners apply mathematics and economics concepts in the lemonade business. Learners set up a virtual lemonade stand and must determine production costs, product variables, and profits. Learners record data collected on...

What do you know about the characters and setting of "Lyddie," by Carol Hurst? Gain insight into the characters through the discussion questions found a this site.

Dedicated to educating the world about engineering, and promoting engineering concepts and projects, Engineering UK inspires people at all levels to pursue careers in engineering.

A great interactive that depicts the new additions that were made on the space shuttle after the Columbia disaster.

Learn how researchers find large differences in how effectively various groups of people can use digital technology.

Find out more about how the infrastructure of the Internet is not distributed equally.

Learn about the difference in access to technology across the globe.

Learn about citizen science: the participation of the general public in scientific research.