Read this Greek Mythology story of the destruction of the earth by flood. Try comparing it to the story of Noah's Ark from the Bible.

Here is mandolin tablature for "Camptown Races," the minstrel song written by Stephen Foster.

Looks at the USSR's launch of Sputnik and the galvanizing effect it had on America's motivation to fund aerospace research. NASA was soon formed and more funding was put in place for public education in the sciences and math.

FunBrain's easy addition facts game lets players race cars, fueled by correct answers, around a track.

In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad figures out how fast their broom must go so they can reach Motherboard before Wicked.

Players must choose the mathematical expression with the highest value to win. Tests understanding of basic arithmetic skills involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.

Read the reporting from the Chicago Daily Tribune on the Chicago race riot in the summer of 1919. Find an accounting of the many incidents and a partial list of those injured.

Resource from the Non Nuclear Proliferation Studies. Provides links to news items, publications and content related to the arms race.

Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic acceleration sensor. They use...

First one to empty the jug wins! And it's not as easy as it sounds...

On this website you can read about Dr. Mamie Clark, distinguished African-American educator, and hear an interview with her about her studies of race and child development. This interview is part of Columbia University's Oral History...

This tutorial makes the memorization of metric prefixes fun. Students can race the clock to see how well they have the prefixes memorized.

This site focuses on the ancient Greek Titans, a race of primordial, powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. It offers links to individual Titans including the superior, main, and others.

In an interactive and game-like manner, students learn about the mechanical advantage that is offered by gears. By virtue of the activity's mechatronics presentation, students learn to study a mechanical system as a dynamic system under...

A wonderful collection of 650 writing prompts organized into categories and issues, e.g., role models, family, memories, race, gender, sexuality, social media, etc. Each prompt is linked to an article on that topic. W.9-10.10 Write...

Students learn the difference between parallel processing and serial processing computer systems by racing to complete a task of stacking blocks.

Copy of the INF Treaty made by the US and the USSR in December of 1987.

Theodore Maiman built the world's first operable laser. Ironically, Maiman's first paper announcing this momentous achievement, which many other scientists had been racing to complete themselves, was rejected. Since then, however, lasers...

Koala Paddle Boards is an educational multi-player activity for word spelling practice. Students race one another by correctly spelling the given computer-voiced words. Whoever builds the highest beehive in the time allowed wins. Be sure...

Read about the pivotal election of 1968, which pitted Richard Nixon against Hubert Humphrey in a race shaped by backlash against the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.

During the 2014-2015 school year, American public schools are projected to have more students than ever of non-white ethnicities, and Caucasians will be in the minority for the first time.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Ralph Metcalfe, an American sprinter and member of the American 4 x 100-meter relay team that won a gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. At his peak, in 1934-35, he was called...

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established in 1964 to eliminate discrimination in employment, based on race, color, sex, religion and national origin and now also age or disability.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration of African Americans to the Northern and Midwestern states in the early 1900s. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.