Everything you need to understand or teach The Peace War by Vernor Vinge.
Paul Naismith is known as the Tinker's "wizard." He is a brilliant mathematician and there are many who realize that his loss will be a terrible blow to the Tinkers. Those people urge that he take an apprentice or teach a class of some sort in an effort to share at least some of that knowledge. Paul, well past seventy, is among the majority of the population. There are few children...
The Peace War Lesson Plans contain 125 pages of teaching material, including: