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.

Use these resources and create a project identifying an issue with the health of people in the community and working out actions that could be taken to reduce the problem.

Develop a digital story to illustrate and inform others about different habitats or ecosystems. Resources for building a digital story are provided.

Explains the benefits of doing an author study and how to do one with a class. Includes lists of resources and ideas for culminating projects.

Who should pay for politicians traveling before it violates ethical codes of abuse of power? Legislators and their staff were offered and accepted millions of dollars worth of free trips. This lesson explores the ethics of our...

What is data mining? Students will explore the meaning of data mining and through research create a multimedia presentation of government data mining and privacy.

While studying Charles Dickens' novel, "A Christmas Carol," students can work on their writing skills by creating a resume of the characters in the book.

Students will review, compare and contrast the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 with the District of Columbia Emancipation Act.

Students research the reconstruction efforts of the United States in Iraq and determine at least one positive result of the initiative. Upon completion of research, students will write to their legislators about what should be done next.

After looking over several articles and reports about lead in the environment being toxic, students will write persuasive letters to various government officials to tell them how they feel about what the government is currently doing...

Students will study the procedures necessary to run for a public office in the state. To demonstrate understanding of the system, each student will select a specific office and present a written plan of how to get onto the ballot.

After reviewing local weather reports, students will think about whether the presentation of the reports is driving folks to not participate in outdoor activities. The class will create new weather reports that will turn negative weather...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn about different types of habitats as they gather information based on provided research questions. Students will summarize the information from their research in an...

See how the human genome project sequenced all 3 billion bases that make up our DNA and identified within this code more than 20,000 human genes.

Educators will discuss with class whether insurance rates should be influenced by the level of education a person as completed or what their occupation is. Is this ethical? Choose a stance and write to the local legislators.

Reflecting on Avi's book, Nothing But the Truth A Documentary Novel, classrooms will review and consider protocol in understanding the school's handbook, policies, and how these are communicated to the student body.

In this lesson, Brooke Bessesen's picture book, Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the...

In this lesson, Eileen Christelow's picture book, Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the...

In this lesson, Hooway for Wodney Watby, written by Helen Lester, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, young scholars will use click the buttons with the words "Who",...

What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.

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...