In partnership with the imaginative television show "Design Squad," NASA provides a lesson plan with six engineering challenges that guide students to explore principles of engineering and design. Rockets, rovers, and other projects combine descriptions of outer space with content that aligns with national and international standards. The...
In this lesson, students explore an obscure pseudoscience of heroic medicine and evaluate its practices. Through handwritten letters between relatives, we peer into lives of those suspected of consumption (tuberculosis), and the consequences of the common medical treatment: administration of calomel (mercurous chloride). Herein, science,...
This reading lesson can be used to accompany the New York State Museum exhibit or as a standalone activity; it includes a brief reading about the now extinct passenger pigeon, its history and the causes of its decline, and the societal impact of this extinction. The interactive lesson allows students to work in pairs exploring and summarizing...
Through this fun and exciting lesson, students will learn about the impact Antarctica's glaciers may have on climate change. The resource, provided by the American Museum of Natural History, includes background information on Antarctica, interviews with several scientists, material on the Antarctic climate, and the technology used to study the...