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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Test the Acoustic Properties of Concrete
• You Be the Inventor: Walk on Water Shoes
• You Be the Inventor: Make a Flying Balloon 
• Peanuts: A Miracle Cure?
• Biofuels and Invasive Species

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

• Who Gets the Credit? The story of Robert Hooke
• Invention: Creativity or science?
• Basic and Applied Knowledge: Working together
• Nikola Tesla and the Ethics of Technology Research
• We're Imperfect: The role of perception in technology
• Who Holds Who Back? Society and innovation
• Art or Science? A look at da Vinci and how we define knowledge
• Just Got Lucky: The role of chance in science and technology
• Invention and Natural Selection: A metaphor
• Our Favorite Appliance: The evolution of the fridge
• Humanitarianism and Technology: What's the connection?
• Innovation is Near-Sighted
• What Would Henry Ford Do Now
• The Importance of Play

 CHARACTER EDUCATION

• "If at First You Don't Succeed, Destroy All Evidence That You Tried" 
• How Logical People Have Illogical Ideas
• Character Flaws that Really Do Interfere
• Great People, Great Mistakes
• Why People Fail: A case study
• Who Decides Success? The lives of Leonardo da Vinci and George Washington Carver
• Ideas in the Scrap Pile
• Perfect Timing
• Responding to Failure: Lessons from great inventors
• Diary of a Failure
• How To Be Successful

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: Chapter by chapter questions
• Science and Technology Vocabulary - with a historical twist
• Metaphors: Not just for poetry
• Punctuation: Commas, semi-colons, and n-rules
• Be the Editor
• Grammar: Does it have to be perfect?
• Inventive Communication: Innovation is not just nuts and bolts
• What's Humour? Playing with perception
• Make up Your Own Maxim