For example, in the lesson Fabulous Funnels, students in grades 9 to 12 learn what tornados are, how they are created, measured, and their effects on communities. Students keep a journal of their activities and keep track of daily tornado and supercell activity throughout the United States by monitoring the US National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warning site. This lesson uses reading, writing, and measuring skills in an interdisciplinary format. In another lesson, students in grades 5 to 8 go on a virtual scavenger hunt. Students use information they gather from a virtual tour of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. to make mathematical calculations needed to answer a series of questions.
Students practice basic arithmetic skills and percent computations.
Questions ask students to calculate the size and value of the Hope Diamond and to find the ratio of the amount of protein in a potato to the amount of protein in wheat.