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Educational curriculum from an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian. This exhibition, co-organized by NMAI and the Michigan State University Museum, from October 19, 1997 to January 4, 1998, explored the importance of quilt-making in Native Hawaiian and North American Indian communities. The work of Native quilters is deeply rooted in their cultural […]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Lesson 3 of 4 Tide Pool Ecology Unit

Resource in: Just What is a Tide Pool Lesson; Tide Pool Ecology Unit

Resource in: Just What is a Tide Pool Lesson; Tide Pool Ecology Unit

Lesson 1 of 3 Just What is a Tide Pool? Tide Pool Ecology Unit

The science behind a hockey slapshot, shown in slow motion.

You and your team have crash-landed on an ancient planet. Can you appease the three alien overlords who rule it and get your team safely home? Created by logician Raymond Smullyan, and popularized by his colleague George Boolos, this riddle has been called the hardest logic puzzle ever. Alex Gendler shows how to solve it.

This lesson will help students explain and demonstrate the basic knowledge of the human body systems after assigned reading, classwork, discussion, and lecture. Activities cover directional terms, anatomical planes and body position after assigned reading, classwork, discussion, and lecture.

If you can’t imagine life without chocolate, you’re lucky you weren’t born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate only existed as a bitter, foamy drink in Mesoamerica. So how did we get from a bitter beverage to the chocolate bars of today? Deanna Pucciarelli traces the fascinating and often cruel history of chocolate.