Veterans Day, 2023
On Veterans Day we honor the men and women that have served in the Armed Forces of the United States. There are now 16.2 million living veterans. We found these maps that show where veterans liv...
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DST ends November 5th, 2023 - strange happenings
In this activity students try to figure out how time settings will change as they move from place to place and in the serious weirdness of Arizona and the Navaho and Hopi nations. What variables...
Leslie's Yummy Pumpkin Pie
Every year more and more people come to our house on Thanksgiving morning for my (Leslie's)famous pumpkin pie and a hike in the nearby woods. This year 23 people have already accepted. How man...
Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prizes have just been awarded. This is the medal that is given to the winners.
What do you know about the Nobel Prize? Who do you know who has received one?
Alfred Nobel was a ...
Indigenous Peoples or Columbus Day
When Columbus landed in Guanahani (renamed San Salvador, Bahama Islands by Columbus), he began the European settlement of the New World. Guanahani was inhabited by the
Taíno people and...
Will this be an El Niño winter?
The Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) started to show changes to the Pacific Ocean surface temperatures in April and May of this year. Those temperatures are still rising which is a marker for the ...
Will sending you back to school this year cost a fortune?
This activity is scheduled to be updated in August 2026. Stay tuned! With high inflation rates, supply shortages, and rethinking what is essential spending, back to school spending might be diffe...
Summer Solstice, the longest day
Sunrise on the summer solstice at StonehengeJune 21st, at 10:57 am EDT, the Earth's North Pole will be tilted as far towards the Sun as it will ever be in the year. This marks the lo...
Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities
Algebra
Number Sense
Social Studies
Food
Holidays
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Probability and Statistics
For Father's Day (Links to different activities) Thank you, mother and father, for all of those diapers - Students compare the cost of buying disposable versus cloth diape...
Triple Crown hopefuls at the Preakness
Credit: AP Photo/Garry Jones Saturday, May 20th 2023, will be the running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness is the second major race...