Students explore the world of Greek mythology by studying briefly each of the Gods. They explore the visual world of Greek mythology in ancient art and architecture and create original play-lets based on authentic myths through creative...

Students research and present reports on 20th century fashions and their influences. After watching a video about fashion, they complete worksheets based on the film. In another activity, students make doll-sized clothing items using...

Young scholars complete a set of CD-ROM's to introduce them to the flight program at NASA. In groups, they research a topic related to flight and put their information on a CD-ROM. To end the lesson plan, they share their material with...

Ninth graders examine the relationships of science and technology and how it influences people's perceptions of places.  In this mythology and astronomy lesson students view a PowerPoint presentation and complete a...

Students work in small groups and design a ship out of balsa wood. They hypothesize what happens when the ship is placed in water then make predictions as to which ship stays afloat the longest with the greatest amount of weight added.

Students compare and contrast characteristics of the Olympians with the character of the One True God.  In this mythology lesson students work in groups and are assigned one god and one myth to compare and contrast to God.

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.

This activity asks students to analyze evidence presented in the 'In the Matter of the Petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, for Limitation of its Liability as owner of the steamship TITANIC' case that began after...

Students will analyze claims filed by survivors, families of victims and owners of cargo of the Titanic disaster. They will examine claims for loss of life, loss of property and injuries that were filed as part of 'In the Matter of the...

This short analysis activity asks students to examine two claims filed by survivors of the April 15, 1912 Titanic disaster to understand the vast class differences between a first class passenger and a steerage passenger. Students will...

In this activity, students will follow the story of one Titanic survivor, Lucy Ridsdale. A fifty year old nurse from Great Britain, Lucy would survive the Titanic disaster aboard lifeboat 13.

Description of the Titanic with details on its collision with an iceberg in 1912 where almost 1500 people died.

"Theogony," a famous poem, by Hesiod explains the beginnings of Greek Mythology's first Greek Gods and Goddesses. From Chaos came Gaea (Earth), Uranus (the Heaven), and Eros (Desire) who produced the Titans and from them, the Olympian gods.

Learn about Nereus, a truthful and good-natured marine deity, who went from being half fish and half man to fully human and was father to 50 beautiful mermaids, the Nereids.

Enrico Fermi was a titan of twentieth-century physics. He outlined the statistical laws that govern the behavior of particles that abide by the Pauli exclusion principle and developed a theoretical model of the atom in his mid-twenties....

A biography of Dr. Bob Ballard written by the Institute for Exploration.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Steve McNair, an American gridiron football player who threw 174 touchdown passes during his 13 National Football League (NFL) seasons (1995-2008), primarily while playing for the...

An image of John Jacob Astor.