The technology-integrated lessons highlighted here illustrate real-world applications of the content. They also incorporate aspects of project-based learning such as inquiry and collaborative learning.

Mathematics

Drip, Drop, Drip, Drop
In this lesson, middle school students employ graphing calculators and apply their mathematics skills to the real-world problem of water wasted by a leaky faucet. The suggested extensions require students to gather information about water conservation and challenge them to determine how much water could be saved using different conservation strategies.

Shedding Light on the Subject: Function Models of Light Decay
High school mathematics students use a variety of technologies to explore the behavior of light as it passes through water.

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Science

It's a Crash Test, Dummy
Students in middle or high schools use the Internet to investigate how airbags work. They then work in teams to create an air bag designed to protect an egg.

Simple Thermodynamics of Transportation
Students explore and apply the laws of thermodynamics as they watch online videos and work collaboratively to construct a steam engine.

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Reading

Let's Build a Snowman
Elementary school students investigate how animals get food during the winter months. The extension that suggests building snowmen or feeders to feed local wildlife could easily be developed into an interdisciplinary project-based lesson incorporating science and reading. Consider having students pose an essential question about the animals in their area, research the animals' needs, and then construct feeders to meet the animals' needs.

Stop the Bullying in Life and in Young Adult Literature
The lessons in this unit are designed to help students address the bullies, the bullied, and the bystanders in real life and in Young Adult literature. Students will learn the characteristics associated with bullying and analyze the behavior of protagonists in Young Adult literature. Students will become more technologically competent as they research anti-bullying programs, create bully buster brochures, create cyberbully slide presentations, and publish zines.

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