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CHARTING THE COURSE

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students uses atlases, maps, and Web resources to determine the distance, driving time, and amount of money they need to make the trip (estimates should include hotel/motel stays, meals, and souvenirs).
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CREATING A CLASSROOM HOLIDAY

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners invents a holiday for their classroom, including name, customs, songs, foods, and other defining characteristics based on the research they have conducted and the discussion in Lesson Three.
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Current Events Research

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars look for news stories on the Web that highlight some of the prominent issues in modern American history they outlined in Lesson One. They see the connection between historical issues and current events.
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Current Events Research

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students monitor current events using on-line and traditional resources. They explore issues such as what trends they see developing in specific news issues over time and how different news stories might be interrelated.
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Family Fitness

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students visit sites that contain information about a variety of health and fitness activities. They analyze the activities according to several criteria, and describe how their particular activity choices can contribute to a healthy...
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Climate and Weather

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students become familiar with weather terminology and different representations of data as they explore various on-line weather sites. They practice using and interpreting data determining the effects of the time of day, time of year and...
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Collecting and Recording Data# O

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students observe plants growing over time, measure specific plant growth, and gather and record data on plan growth.
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Collaboration the Internet

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students work collaboratively, via the Internet, with another class/school/country, to share and analyze data. They nteract with another class to construct a reasonable explanation for the evidence they have gathered.
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Discussion of Adaptation

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars discuss ways in which dinosaurs adapted to their environments. They apply the same logic to an analysis of human habitat, survival needs, and survival need fulfillment to explain how people have adapted to their environment.
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Visiting Museums

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners visit museums and gather information about dinosaur habitats, survival needs, and how they met these needs.
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The Relatedness of Languages

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use Internet and library resources to select and examine the origins of phrases or words, particularly words that have origins in other languages.
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Revising the Neoclassicism/Romanticism Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers revise the in-depth project based on the suggestions they receive from their peer editors and their N/R expert contacts for publication on a class Web page.
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Introduction to Neoclassicism and Romanticism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the Internet to answer questions about Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
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School Newspaper Unit

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars assemble and format their stories and layout their electronic newspaper.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Immigration Explorations, Part I

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum created by students in his classroom in order to develop criteria for their own research.
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Global Warming Unit: Presentation to Class and School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students present their research reports on global warming, along with any other associated products (models, diagrams, Web-pages, etc.) to the rest of the class and school.
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Global Warming: The Greenhouse Effect Debate

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students gather information about the Greenhouse Effect and participate in a debate about the merits of this theory on both sides. They explore the Greenhouse Effect, and its possible long-term effects, from a variety of resources.
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Global Warming: Introduction to Global Warming

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils gather information about global warming and climate changes in preparation for future lessons on the Greenhouse Effect.
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Exploring Space Fact and Fiction Unit: Creating Space Fiction

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create stories about imaginary planets.
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Conducting a Video Teleconference

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners organize a video teleconference over CU-SeeMe to discuss the results of the survey with participants.
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Administering the Survey

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners administer Media Violence Survey to family and friends locally, and to students in remote locations.
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Final Reports

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners write reports, including a summary of their research findings and their historical journal entries, to be shared with friends and families, and publish their reports.
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Introduction to Immigration

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils read and discuss selected library resources about students and immigration.
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Graphing Our Favorite Candy Bars

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use ClarisWorks to graph class' favorite candy bars on a bar graph.

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