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Manfra, Meghan McGlinn – Social Education, 2013
This article explores a multidisciplinary lesson on nanotechnology that can provide an effective means for teaching about both STEM and social studies topics. This approach encourages students to consider the "role that science and technology play in our lives and in our cultures." The extraordinary promise of nanotechnology, however, is…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Molecular Structure, STEM Education, Social Studies
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Webb, Stuart; Rodgers, Michael P. H. – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The scripts of 318 movies were analyzed in this study to determine the vocabulary size necessary to understand 95% and 98% of the words in movies. The movies consisted of 2,841,887 running words and had a total running time of 601 hours and 33 minutes. The movies were classified as either American or British, and then put into the following…
Descriptors: Scripts, Physical Activities, Nouns, Vocabulary