A Google Maps Lesson Idea - Seasonings Around the World

On Wednesday morning I came across a neat article on NPR titled A Trip Around the World, By Way of Seasonings . The article is part of a ser...

Mix Your Own NPR Podcast

Yesterday, Vicki Davis published a great post titled How to Improve Your Thinking With a Podcatcher . Her post reminded me of a neat service...

Visualizing How We Reached 7 Billion

This morning NPR had a story about the world's population reaching 7 billion . Then this afternoon Ronald Ho posted a link to the follo...

Animated Explanation - How a Virus Invades Your Body

As the weather continues to change cold and flu season will upon us again. In fact, we've already had one mild cold get passed around my...

NPR's Math Guy - 78 Archived Episodes

This morning through the Open Culture blog I learned about an excellent series of archived NPR Math Guy episodes. Keith Devlin is NPR'...

Technology in The Music Classroom

i Tunes When I finally got an old blue iMac in my vocal music classroom in 2009-2010, I was so excited!  I did not have much on it but it di...

Why Can't We Walk in Straight Lines?

Last week on my way to school I heard an interesting story on NPR. The story, A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? examines an excerp...

StoryCorps Videos

StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization that records and gathers the stories of Americans from all walks of life. The stories range from lig...

The Decade Ahead In Jobs

NPR has an interesting infographic predicting the growth and decline of various industries in the United States over the next decade. The D...