Curated OER
Xeriscaping In Your Community
Fourth graders participate in a service-learning project to design landscaping that maximizes water use and utilizes indigenous plant species.
Curated OER
For the Record: Black Inventors and Inventions
Young scholars create a database with the inventions of African-Americans. They analyze and sort the data in an appropriate fashion. They use the internet to gather their information for the database.
Curated OER
Breaking News English: We Spend Half Our Time Daydreaming
In this English instructional activity, students read "We Spend Half Our Time Daydreaming," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: The Birth of the Internet
This visually engaging feature by the National Science Foundation provides an excellent explanation of how the internet came to be and those responsible for it's inception. Many original computers and other instruments are discussed and...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Using Probeware in Biology
This article discusses knowledge and skills developed by educators who use technology to teach science.
Other
Neurociencias Para Ninos / Neuroscience for Kids
Learn about the brain and brain science using this Spanish version of the excellent Neuroscience for Kids site. Translation of the site is a work in progress. Portions are in Spanish but links for many pages still lead to the English...