Patriots' Day
In Massachusetts, Monday April 15th, 2019, will be a holiday from school and work. We celebrate Patriots' Day on the 3rd Monday in April to commemorate the beginning of the Revolutionary War a...
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What does 95% confidence in the poll results mean?
There have been a lot of polls about who will win the Presidential election.
I get so confused when polling results are reported. What is a 95% confidence measure? What's the margin of ...
Alarming ice cracks on Brunt Ice Sheet in Antarctica
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...
New baby giraffe
Willow at Baltimore, MD Zoo
Willow weighed 125 pounds at birth and was 6 feet 1 inch tall. She will grow to her adult height of around 14 feet tall in only four years! How big wou...
Have a heart
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Canstruction® is an event hosted in more than 150 countries throughout the world to demonstrate "innovation, hunger ...
Super Bowl cheesy pretzel poppers
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...
Civil rights marches, how do you count a crowd?
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...
It's latke time
In Leslie's family it is traditional to eat latkes (Yiddish for little potato pancakes) at this time of year. They are fried in a lot of oil and salted generously. Her mom's latk...
What's wrong with this picture?
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...
Pick-a-brick wall at the Lego store
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 ...