Connections - social studies
Biography
- Napier’s Timeline
- Countdown Challenge: Time Line
- Comparing a Number Line to a Time Line
- Creating a Number Line
- A Family Tree
- Countdown Activity: Napier’s Ancestors
- Napier’s Family Tree
- Tracing Generations
- Your Ancestors
- Mary Somerville
- Intro to Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Banneker: Quick Facts
Geography
- Flag Symmetry
- Latitude and Longitude Basics
- Countdown Activity: Money
- Currency Design
- Converting Currency on the Computer
- Calculating Population Rate
- Calculating the Population Density
- Calculating the Area of Scotland
- The Underground Railroad
- Routes on the Underground Railroad
- Estimating Distance on the Underground Railroad: Part 1
- Estimating Distance on the Underground Railroad: Part 2
- Estimating Distance on the Underground Railroad: Part 3
- Intro “The Librarian of Basra”
Invention
- History of Metric vs. Customary System
- The Invention of the Decimal
- Intro to Napier’s Rods
- Using Napier’s Rods: Part 1
- Using Napier’s Rods: Part 2
- Logarithms: Intro
- Multiplication Using Logs
- Division Using Logs
- Grandfather of the Computer?
- Exploring Punch Cards
- Punch Cards: Part 1
- Punch Cards: Part 2
- Exploring Scale on the Computer
- Gear Ratio: Part 1
- Gear Ratio: Part 2
- Why are there 360º in a circle?