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CalcEnstein - Blaine Hilton

Grades 5 to 12

Looking for different types of calculators? Find them on this interesting site. Choose a button on the calculator corresponding to the subject. Examples of subjects include Medicine, Algebra, Weather, Phonics, Financial, HVAC, Engineering, Weather, and Rocketry to name a few. After the subject is chosen, click on a formula to enter values. Some of the topics offer reference information, not calculations. This is definitely an interesting site to peruse.
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In the Classroom:
There are many different calculators for students to explore as ways to apply math in real world situations. For example, choose weather and then wind chill. Enter the information and wind chill will be calculated. Enter the information, view the calculated answer, and then have students determine how it is actually calculated. This site is a great find for gifted students to use to further investigate specific topics beyond your “regular” classroom content. Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students work with a partner to explore various “buttons” on this interactive calculator. Have the groups create multimedia presentations to share their findings or demonstrate them on the whiteboard as advertisements or infomercials! Have students create online posters on paper or do it together as a class using a tool such as Project Poster (reviewed here or PicLits (reviewed here.

Way Back: Technology in 1900 - WGBH for PBS

Grades 5 to 8

Start your unit on inventions/technology or the decades of the 20th century with a 1900 music video from this site to show how advanced we have become. Students will explore technology, such as telephone operators, music, and automobiles with a click on the links. Laugh at the Max Morath interview as he predicts that all the futurists are wrong. That interview will stir up your class.
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In the Classroom:
Share the video on a projector then read the amazing 1900 Technology Predictions from the Ladies Home Journal and have your class make their own technology predictions for 2100. Invite an engineer into your class or share a dialog via email to talk about how many of the class predictions could possibly come true.

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