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...
Throughout this lesson, students will have the opportunity to learn about and experience the role that simple machines play in their daily lives. Students will examine various simple machines and what makes them go, and then participate in a school scavenger hunt to identify as many simple machines as they can.
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,...
Throughout New York State's past, individual visitors and the state government have promoted the natural beauty, history, cultural attractions, and recreational activities that the state has to offer. Explore New York State through photographs, documents and...
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...