Wildfires and particulate matter
Wildfires in Canada have been spreading dangerous smoke pollution throughout much of North America. What is a dangerous size of particles per cubic meter (PM)? How tiny is th...
Algebra
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Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities
Algebra
Number Sense
Social Studies
Food
Holidays
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Probability and Statistics
For Father's Day (Links to different activities) Thank you, mother and father, for all of those diapers - Students compare the cost of buying disposable versus cloth diape...
Effects of new MLB rules
This year new rules have been added to Major League Baseball. Pitchers and batters are no longer allowed to "dawdle" or delay the game. The bases are larger. Now pitchers...
March Equinox - big deal? ... and 5 more Spring activities
What's with the March Equinox? Does it really affect our lives? Is it just some astronomical occurrence? Students calculate the daylight hours at the March Equi...
How old are you?
We usually give our ages in years, but that isn't very precise is it? In this activity students find their age in days, hours and minutes. First students take two minutes to estimate the...
2 New Macy's Parade balloons
As the Macy's Parade returns to public viewing, here are two balloons that Macy's artists have added. Can you figure out their dimensions? Macy's give their dimensions in bicycle lengths, taxi w...
Spicy hot chocolate for the Dia de los Muertos
The Day of the Dead is always on the first and second of November. Life and death are part of the natural cycle of life and the Dia de los Muertos honors that cycle.
Peppe...
Just ONE hot dog
A newly released nutritional and environmentally sustainable study shows that eating just one hot dog can take 36 minutes off your total healthy lifespan.
How many would you have to eat to lo...
It's tick time again ... and Lyme disease
With the start of summer and wonderful outdoor activities, it might be good to examine the growth of Lyme disease and to recognize its carrier, the deer tick. Will this be a rec...
Shoprite's solar energy goals on the African continent
Shoprite is the largest supermarket chain in Africa. The company is presently engaged in increasing their use of solar power to harness the abundant natural resource of solar potentia...