March 10th, 2023
High School Resource
In this activity, students will:
- Use estimation to check the reasonableness of results obtained by computation, algorithms, or the use of technology.
- Estimate the probability of events.
- Use simulation techniques to estimate probabilities.
- Determine probabilities of independent events and mutually exclusive events.
Related NY State Academic Standards: 7.RP.2.b, 7.NS.1.b, 7.NS.1.c, and more!
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March 3rd, 2023
High School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on the history behind St. Patrick’s Day.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.6.4, SS.6.4.b.1, SS.6.4.c.2, and more!
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February 24th, 2023
High School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on inspirational African American women from history.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.7.8.e.1, SS.8.4.e, SS.8.4.e.1, and more!
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February 17th, 2023
High School Resource
The purpose of Food Fat is for teenagers to evaluate snack foods dealing with calories and fat and to use this information to make informed and wise food choices. Students will be able to identify the amount of fat in common snack foods, and graphically see the fat in a container by measuring the equivalent of the food fat with shortening. Students can also determine what kind and amount of physical exercise would be needed to burn off the same number of calories from this snack food.
Related NY State Academic Standards: ARTS.D.C.2.1.MS.E, CDOS.C.3b.HP.9.A.SW, HPF.HE.C.1.1.B, and more!
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February 10th, 2023
High School Resource
Objective:
Students will investigate decisions made during various presidential administrations.
Activity:
- Students divide into teams of three and select a 20th-century President to research. Teacher makes sure that each President is selected only once.
- Students use library resources and Internet to research the President to identify:
- Significant decisions made during his administration
- The impact decisions had on this and other countries
- Political, economic, and social policies
- Students representing various Presidents sit on a panel to lead class discussion about decisions made during various presidential administrations.
- Other students serve as reporters on the White House Press Corps and ask probing questions.
- Students select one President and write a reaction paper based on one of his decisions; paper is entitled “What Would I Have Done and Why?”
Related NY State Academic Standards: RI.11-12.8, RI.11-12.9, RH.9-10.6, and more!
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February 3rd, 2023
High School Resource
This web-based practice allows students to:
- see how a heart works
- manipulate an interactive and perform a heart transplant
- learn interesting facts about the heart
- learn how an artificial person could be created
Using this resource is an engaging approach allowing students to learn about the parts of the heart as well as how a heart transplant takes place. This can be used as a review of a previous lesson or as an instructional approach for an introductory lesson.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.LS.1.1, S.MS.LS.1.3, MST4.I.LE.1.2, and more!
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January 27th, 2023
High School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on Malcom X speaking on the Black Nationalist Movement.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.8.9, SS.8.9.a.1, SS.E.1, and more!
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January 20th, 2023
High School Resource
This simulation will allow students to generate electricity with a bar magnet. They will discover the physics behind the phenomena by exploring magnets and how you can use them to make a bulb light.
Using this simulation, students will:
- Identify equipment and conditions that produce induction.
- Compare and contrast how both a light bulb and voltmeter can be used to show characteristics of the induced current.
- Predict how the current will change when the conditions are varied.
- Explain practical applications of Faraday’s Law.
- Explain what causes the induction.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.PS.1.4, MST4.I.PS5.2, and MST4.C.P.4.1
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January 13th, 2023
High School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on the Freedom March lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.11.4.a.2, SS.11.10.a, SS.E.1, and more!
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January 6th, 2023
High School Resource
Physicists tell us that the altitude h in feet of a projectile t seconds after firing is h = -16t2 + vut + ho where vu is the upward component of its initial velocity in feet per second and h o is the altitude in feet from which it is fired. A rocket is launched from a hilltop 2400 feet above the desert with an initial upward velocity of 400 feet per second. When will it land on the desert? In this activity, discuss what the discriminant can tell you about the solution to this problem. Then use the quadratic equation to find the solution and explain your answer.
Related NY State Academic Standards: F-IF.4!
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