This balloon LEGO car activity is easy and simple, and it’s a fun time for the entire family! Be sure to check out the LEGO zip line for the minifigures too!

If you like to play music on your cell phone you’ll find lots to love about this wooden phone amplifier. It provides an attractive platform to cradle your phone while playing music, and it boosts the sounds level by 8-10 dB (decibels) while also distributing the sound around the room using a megaphone style sound enhancement.

As an added bonus, the project includes clever cable routing so that the amplifier can also be used as a charging station.

Art and culture have played a central role in every successful movement for social change. Art can inspire, educate, and spur the imagination beyond the realm of what politics can do. Social justice posters, in particular, are powerful living reminders of the ongoing worldwide struggles for peace and justice.

In this activity, students will watch a short video by artist Favianna Rodriguez on the guiding principles of effective poster design, and then will create a poster of their own.

In this lesson on cosmic rays, students will explain two examples of a cosmic ray detector. Includes information about student preconceptions and a demonstration that requires a geiger counter and optional access to a small radioactive source that emits energetic helium nuclei (alpha particles), e.g., the mineral the mineral autunite, which contains uranium. This is activity two of four from The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER).

This site offers how to draw tutorials on facial expressions (cartoon) and much, much more.

Here's an easy "How to Draw a Frog" art project for kids ... make it a little harder by experimenting with different mediums ...

Watch this video to learn how to draw your very own pelican.
Here's a little bit trickier how to draw for older elementary or middle years students.

This short video explains to kids why we are "stuck at home" during the COVID-19 outbreak.

This is a tricky time for kids and they are missing school and their friends. It can be even harder if they don't understand WHY we are all at home.

I hope this video can help children understand "the why".

Welding can be a dangerous, life threatening, and dirty job, or a safe, rewarding, and well paying career. Whether one is learning to walk, ride a bicycle, play hockey, football, or just about any other activity you can think of, safety should be your first consideration, regardless of the task that one chooses to challenge. Unfortunately a lot of us humans tend to treat safety the way we treat the instruction manual that came with the new TV. We simply choose to ignore its existence until something goes wrong. The following tips represent some of the many safety recommendations that could save lives, including yours

In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how humans get the resources we need to survive, even though those resources may come from a long way away.

Try a recipe from Thailand ... inspired from the September 23, 2020 Read Aloud of "Never Trust a Pelican."

Kids will love making these paper bracelets out of all kinds of paper! Be sure to check out the Picklebums home page at https://picklebums.com/. They offer activities for kids, fun food activities, articles on parenting, free printables, and much more.

Students set up and run the experiments they designed in the Population Growth in Yeasts associated lesson, using simple yeast-molasses cultures in test tubes. Population growth is indicated by the amount of respiration occurring in the cultures, which in turn is indicated by the growth of carbon dioxide bubbles trapped within the culture tubes. Using this method, students test for a variety of environmental influences, such as temperature, food supply and pH.

Would you like to learn how to make your own Demo-2 to launch in your home? Watch this tutorial to learn how.

All you will need is paper, markers, scissors, tape, yarn or ribbon (optional) and a straw.

How are you preparing to #LaunchAmerica? From building your own rocket to binge-watching launch videos, share a video, a photo or simply your thoughts using #LaunchAmerica for a chance to be featured on our social media platforms.

This video is available for download from NASA's Image and Video Library

Do your students have trouble realizing how much time they need to dedicate to studies? Do your students regularly have excuses as to why they didn't get their work done? This lesson can be done the first week of classes to help students plan a realistic schedule that allows them time to be successful in the courses they enroll.

This site offers advise on how to make the most of the time you spend with your students online, and how to get them to show up in the first place!

MyMoneyCoach: This website presents excellent information for students to learn about various types of debt:
- Student Loan Budgeting and Money Management - Practical Tips for Post-Secondary Students: Money Management Strategies -- * Develop a workable budget that also gives you a little money for fun… yes, fun! * If you are using student loans or have enough money saved to get you through, set it all aside in a separate savings account.
- Tips for Paying Off Credit Card Debt: Here are some practical ways you can quickly tackle your credit card debt and take your first real steps toward getting out of debt: * Put your credit cards away until you have completely paid off the outstanding balances.
- Create a Budget to Get Out of Bad Debt - Shed Your Debt Weight: Did you make any resolutions this year? Many people plan to shed the extra pounds that are dragging them down – but does that include weight from your bad debt? It’s amazing how heavy a maxed out credit card can feel!
- How to Get Out of Debt and Keep it that Way: Debt solutions and strategies to get out of debt can vary for everyone, however, the sooner someone is able to deal with their debt, the more options they generally have available to them.

How to PeBL ELA – A Scaffolded Lesson for Teachers
A "standard" lesson, based on "I Do" planning and execution, often results in the teacher identifying the outcome to be learned, selecting the resources, designing the comprehension questions and/or activity, and finally using some form of teacher-made assessment (ex. Unit Exam).

In an effort to personalize learning and encourage a "We Do" mentality, the following lesson was developed.

Note the teachers language at different times throughout the lesson. The teacher has still ensured students are utilizing grade/course appropriate content and some control over the lesson development, but has also increased student voice and choice.

"I have selected an ELA A30 text for us to view.

"Together, we will decide which outcomes we want to connect to the text and our assessment of those outcomes."

"Looking at our framework, which outcomes could we achieve..."