Seven hands-on lessons module where students learn about our dynamic planet. These inquiry-based explorations investigate scientific models, earthquakes and seismic waves, Earth's interior, Earth movements, the lithosphere, plate...

Seven hands-on lessons module that allows students to learn about materials and minerals. These inquiry-based explorations investigate properties of materials, where mineral deposits can be found, how deposits are formed, how minerals...

A collection of inquiry-based and hands-on activities to introduce students to wind energy. Includes PowerPoints, labs, and videos.

In this investigation, students will record an observation (drawing) of a tree in their science notebook. Following the observation, students will discuss what they observed and a list will be created by the classroom teacher. Based on...

Students experience data collection, analysis and inquiry in this LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT -based activity. They measure the position of an oscillating platform using a ultrasonic sensor and perform statistical analysis to determine the mean,...

This is a field study where students investigate the characteristics and processes of local streams to see how they affect the landscape around them, and develop questions that could be investigated. They also collect rock samples from...

An interesting experiment in the relationship between gravity, density, and mass. Students must devise a way to drop a milk carton containing two raw eggs off a roof 50 feet high, without breaking the eggs. They then write a scientific...

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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An article outlining a PBL unit taught in an eighth grade history class. The educator discusses how the unit was developed by accident and how he drew on the students interest to make it successful!

[Free Registration/Login Required] An article discussing how the Next Generation Science Standards is the what and PBL is the how!

[Free Registration/Login Required] A look into how the 21st century education vision can use PBL as an effective implementation strategy. This article discusses the points to how PBL helps fulfill the overview vision found in the 21st...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An article discussing how the Common Core is the what and PBL is the how!

Try eighteen different chemistry experiments which look like magic but everything is a product of chemical reaction.

These are eighteen different chemistry experiments to satisfy your curiosity.

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

What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.

As future employees, students should be aware of the various forms of business correspondence. Students will learn how to use wizards and templates from a word processing software to create business letters. This project allows students...

In this activity, young scholars will learn how to conduct a map-based science research project using a Geographic Information System (GIS). They will design an experiment, collect and record geospatial data, analyze geospatial...

This lesson is an inquiry into events that occurred during the Cold War era. It is a technology-based project on one event that occurred during the Cold War(1945-1991). The Cold War describes the tense and hostile relationship between...

This is an inquiry and technology-based lesson that allows students to discover the relationship between perimeter and area. Students apply problem-solving strategies to solve the real-life problem posed in this lesson. This lesson may...

This lesson is a technology-based activity in which students extend graphing of linear functions to the use of spreadsheet software. After students have become proficient in constructing a table of values, students are able to...

This instructional activity can be interdisciplinary involving science, mathematics, and language arts. The primary nature of the instructional activity is inquiry, project, and technology-based. In science this project is a culminating...

A guided demonstration where students investigate the properties of carbon dioxide gas and air based on density. Students learn about properties of air through observation and inquiry.

Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Young scholars begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on...