What does this gizmo do?
We've given students a diagram of what the interior of this mechanism contains and asked them to try to decide what its purpose must be.
Then we've...
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Over the past Easter weekend this giant iceberg drifted passed Ferryland, Newfoundland. Its hard to tell how large it actually is but...
A new, fast-growing ice crack is forcing the Halley VI British research station in Antarctica (shown above) to be moved. Fear of a huge break-off from the ice sheet is alarming no...
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Canstruction® is an event hosted in more than 150 countries throughout the world to demonstrate "innovation, hunger ...
Recipe courtesy of The Slow Roasted Italian
A little more delicious work for the Super Bowl. Students follow a recipe that involves "cutting the cheese" block, figuring how many se...
On October 16, 1995, perhaps a million black men gathered for the Million Man March on Washington. This was 32 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his histo...
We've gotten used to believing what we read or see advertised. But sometimes the clerk doesn't get the sales discount right or something seems a little off. Let students ponder this store me...
There are walls at the Lego stores that are filled with individual Lego parts. You can fill a bucket and pick out exactly what you need.
Use this activity to get your students ...
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They changed it. That is so not fair ... or is it? You can check out a video news story on the delicious shrinking Toblero...