Video lesson on playing Dorian scales on six-string guitar. [3:26]

Using primary documents, oral histories, and other historical resources, discover how the arts of Africa, Europe, and pre-Civil War America influenced the culture of enslaved African Americans.

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.

This site explains how a digital pH meter uses an electrode to measure the pH of a solution Find out how to use this instrument in this informative site.

A self-educated man with a brilliant mind, Michael Faraday was born in a hardscrabble neighborhood in London. Through the combination of insatiable curiosity and a powerful will to succeed, he transcended his austere beginnings to...

The integrated circuit fueled the rise of microelectronics in the latter half of the twentieth century and paved the way for the Information Age. An American engineer, Jack Kilby, invented the integrated circuit in 1958, shortly after he...

In this lesson, students will construct a scale model of a satellite by researching what scientific instrument to put on it and how to power it.

Students discover the four parts of the eye are the most instrumental in the task of producing images that are discernible by the brain.

Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route. Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as...

Students act as astronomers, studying stars in a patch of sky in our own galaxy. Using simulated data from spectroscopy and other real-world instrumentation, students learn to determine star positions, radial velocity, proper motion, and...

The article explains temperature. Specifically, you will learn about the temperature scale, temperature scale conversions, and the types of instruments used to measure temperature. Included are solved examples and interactive problems...

Use a thermometer to measure the air temperature in several places around the school.

Learn about the barometer and how it helps to predict the weather.

This website is a cornucopia of resources for percussion instruction. There are videos, audiocasts, podcasts, interviews with talented percussionists. Please check out this website is you are interested in any aspect of percussion.

From the Smithsonian, this site offers lessons and resources on currency, its use (in the form of gold dust, salt, or metal objects) as an instrument of trade in historic Africa, and its requirements as an instrument of trade in the...

Music, songs and dance have always been instrumental in teaching students. This site offers fun and entertaining activities along with teaching tips that enhance the students' awareness of sound, numbers, body parts and more. Intended...

Telephones began to appear in North Carolina beginning in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell's new invention had first been introduced at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. On 10 March of that year, a telephone was...

A lesson that takes young scholars through the process of examining tombstones as artifacts, identifying information that can be instrumental in investigating a community's past or an individual's genealogy. Students also make gravestone...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Sonny Boy Williamson, an American blues vocalist and the first influential harmonica virtuoso, a self-taught player who developed several technical innovations on his instrument.

This site from the Rice University contains information about his life, his father, eduction, religion, nationality, scientific discipline, means of support, patronage, technical involvement, scientific societies, and a bibloigraphy on...

Make a wind vane, rain gauge, and barometer and learn how to measure wind direction, rainfall, and air pressure.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...

Actually this clever site drills pianists on note names and note placement on the keyboard. Kids can access this site at home for practice. Both treble and bass clef are used.

Looks at the many devices used to measure angles in academic settings and in real-world settings.