This lesson helps students understand the concept of inflation in a mathematical context. Students will learn about the Consumer Price Index and will use it to compare the changing worth of a dollar over several years. A...

Created by Edith Seier of East Tennessee State University, this lesson by means of a simple story and a worksheet with questions guides the students from research question to arriving at a conclusion. The whole process...

In this activity, students will identify an assemblage of fossils, determine their age, evaluate the fossil population, and make some inferences about the ancient environment in which they existed. The discovery aspect...

This case study aims to help students understand the transport of oxygen in the blood. The lesson uses the example of carbon monoxide poisoning to demonstrate the concept. This material would be appropriate for...

This web page, authored and curated by David P. Stern, provides instructions for building an electrophorus from common household items. This type of capacitor was invented by Volta and may have been used to amplify...