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Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Inquiry Page: Learning Begins With Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What exactly is inquiry-based learning? Use this website to learn more about this unique learning style.
Professional Doc
Other

Eduscapes: Teacher Tap: Project, Problem, and Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is problem, project, and inquiry based learning? This comprehensive website is full of resources to help you learn more about these teaching styles and strategies.
Professional Doc
Other

Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts Through Web Based Inquiry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for six 50-minute lessons where learners create internet scavenger hunts in order to learn about the effects of the war on certain groups. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains...
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Private and Personal Information (3 5)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As students visit sites that request information about their identity, they learn to adopt a critical inquiry process that empowers them to protect themselves and their families from identity theft. They learn the difference between...
Website
Other

A Workshop on Inquiry Based Learning Using the Internet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site is a workshop on inquiry-based learning using the Internet.
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Arizona State University

Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Professional Doc
Other

Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Concept to Classroom is a free series of award-winning professional development workshops covering important and timely topics in education such as: after-school programs, cooperative and collaborative learning, inquiry-based learning,...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to build your own incubator and download your own "EggMath." Learn about mitosis, genetics, and more. Don't miss the "Yolk of the Day." This site is designed to allow classrooms to collaborate over the Internet with other...
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Other

Odyssey of the Mind: From a Distance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the Internet, books, and articles to research the Earth and its changes (tides, seasons, atmosphere, etc.), develop a "class exhibit about the Earth" and "a survey that includes five questions that will measure what the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Where Am I?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson students explore the 50 states through the Internet. Students discover important facts and information by navigating the World Wide Web.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring the World With p.w. Cracker!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson can be completed in a whole group or small group setting. After reading the book "P.W. Cracker Sees the World," the students will complete an inquiry project that connects social studies/geography to what they read in their...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Introduction to the Light Microscope

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a Microscope Internet Lab that can be used as a virtual lab for a whole class or as a make-up lab. The virtual microscope is a little more complicated than the microscope that is used in the labs but it will not be difficult to...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pgs for Class Collection

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
A four-session lesson plan that leads to a class collection of resources is a solid introduction to both searching skills and evaluation. Could be used with any number of subject areas.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pgs for Class Collection

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
A four-session lesson plan that leads to a class collection of resources is a solid introduction to both searching skills and evaluation. Could be used with any number of subject areas.
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Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Collapse of Corporate Giants: The New Dr. Evils?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson was inspired by an article in "Fortune" magazine, "Why Companies Fail," May 27, 2002. Its focus is on the relationship of business ethics to business bankruptcy or near failure. Students participate in a simulation by...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Circling the Bill of Rights

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a hands-on, inquiry project to create a 3-D graphic organizer for the research and study of the Bill of Rights. It may be a stand-alone activity or may be included as part of a unit of study on the Constitution. Learners will...
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about the different human body systems? This site features information on each of the different systems. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
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FNO Press

From Now On: A Questioning Toolkit

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.
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Other

Harnessing the Web: Intro to Networked Project Based

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This tutorial site for NetPBL (Networked Project-Based Learning) offers guidance for developing collaborative learning.
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Other

Tech4 Learning: Recipes4 Success

For Teachers 9th - 10th
If you're interested in developing project-based learning for your class, Tech4Learning provides tools for facilitating those projects and instruction in how to create and manage them. Free resources available, as well as resources by...