Read these eight quick suggestions you can use with your students to begin infusing inquiry-based learning into your instruction.

PBLU provides a guide to implement a successful project-based learning opportunity for the classroom.

In this lab activity, students will learn how red cabbage can be used as an indicator of an acid or base by looking at its color changes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video exploring the anatomy of a project. Get an insight into how a teacher developed and executed a project from beginning to end. Understand the steps they took while working through...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A video focusing on an "aha" moment a physics teacher had in using project based learning in his classroom. [2:06]

Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.

This is an inquiry based cooperative learning unit that can be used in biology as a graduation exam review or in botany for a nine week project. The students will learn the life cycle of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The...

Middle schoolers will read Number the Stars by Lois Lowrey. This novel about World War II, the Holocaust, and heroism, provides the topic for an inquiry-based, interdisciplinary lesson plan. Students will utilize their skills in...

This is an interdisciplinary inquiry-based lesson that focuses on critical thinking. Students are introduced to the true story of the first Thanksgiving with the reading of a NCSS Notable Trade Book Thanksgiving: The True Story. Working...

This inquiry-based project will provide opportunities for young scholars to learn about the history of Birmingham. Students will discover the variety tourist attractions in Birmingham, Alabama.

This hands-on, inquiry-based instructional activity combines maps skills which include identifying map elements, applying an understanding of cardinal directions, interpreting resource maps, and identifying a location. Students will have...

This is a hands-on, inquiry-based activity that involves study and exploration of dehydration and dehydrated foods. Students are actively involved in using math and science skills.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Nervous about introducing a project or looking for a way to revamp the execution of a previously done project? This article and video shares some advice about project management from introduction to...

If you need help working with your students on questioning a text or if you are working on higher-level questioning skills, this is a simple and helpful site. Printable resources available from site.

In this inquiry-based activity, learners learn how groundwater comes to exist, moves through the soil, and how it is removed from the ground.