Mathematics

There are options for how to connect to the Internet and download information. Learn to be a smart consumer using mathematics. Review various options for connecting, including phone line connections, DSL and cable. Find out the costs for each, as well as the speed of transmission. Determine which option is most effective. Conduct a survey of the ways families are connecting and create a graph to represent the information

Science

Have you ever wondered what the weather will be for the next few days or what the weather will be in a city you might be visiting or in the area where a friend or some relatives live? Go to a weather Web site and download a program and come up with your own forecasts and compare that to what really happens. You can become your family's meteorologist.

Technology

In order to demonstrate to students that there is a cost associated with downloading, have them visit three different download sites: music, royalty-free images and movies. Ask each student to create a list of 25 of their favorite songs. Along with that, ask them to list five movies, and 25 pieces of artwork or photos.

Next to each song, movie and picture, indicate the cost to download these items from the Web. Include membership fees. How many of the downloads are free? How will they pay for these items?