The Blue Marble
April 22nd is Earth Day. Use this activity to demonstrate the various mappings of our 3-d Earth to a 2-d piece of paper. Students compare maps with this famous photo and check to see which...
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California wildfire
Wildfires are burning in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite National Park. In this activity we ask students to examine various maps of this California region, calculate distances us...
Twinkies
Brian loves Twinkies and the news that Hostess is going out of business has upset him terribly. He needs his Twinkies. Twinkies last forever. Right? He's going ...
Why Does it Stay in Orbit?
Students will use their understanding of exponents and practice converting speed and distance from metrics to US customary units to complete this exercise ... and, ...
Geometry of Flooding
In 2010, March was so rainy that flooding was the topic of every newscast and many, many conversations. To this day, the March 2010 floods were described as “once-in-a-generation” river leve...