Computer programming has changed considerable since the days of FORTRAN and BASIC. Today, tools like Scratch can be used to engage and teach even young students fundamental programming concepts. As described on their About page:

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, [...]

When I was a physical science teacher, one of my students’ favorite activities was to use water bottle rockets to explore Newton’s Laws of Motion.  Eighth grade algebra teacher Nancy Pierson and I recently hauled my old launcher out of storage and designed a three-day lesson that combined rocketry, quadratics, and real world data.

Utilizing the [...]

In the 1960s, Andy Warhol created several “mass-produced” images from photographs of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jackie Onassis that cemented his status as a pop art icon.  Warhol’s classic screen prints can never truly be replicated, but the spirit of his serial images can be explored digitally and appreciated artistically thanks [...]

This weekend my seven year old daughter played her last soccer game of the spring season. Her team, the Angels, has been together for quite some time and the girls practice almost year round. Because of their skill level, they “play up” and compete (successfully) against eight and nine year olds. In short, [...]

Mike Fitzgerald, a 7th grade History teacher, recently described how he created The International History Detectives wiki to study the Second World War from a global perspective. One of the project participants, Aleksandra Blalteberg, from Junior High School No. 4, in Gdynia, Poland, crafted her perspective on the project and graciously agreed to share [...]