Young scholars will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and...

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.

Young scholars will write in a technical genre. "Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be...

In this instructional activity, third grade students will explore "fossils" by using chocolate chip cookies in an interactive fossil dig! Through creative problem-based learning that incorporates technology, students will work in...

"In this project based lesson plan, students learn about various types of energy and the need to conserve energy, write a children's story about saving energy, and read their energy books to elementary students."

In this engineering design challenge about building in hurricane-prone regions, students learn that a solid base helps stabilize a structure by constructing, testing, and redesigning a tower that can support a tennis ball at least 18...

[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!

Lessons using primary sources to figure out what happened in the past allows students to examine and perhaps crack the mysteries that swirl around Byrd and his expedition to Antarctica to this day. Primary sources are available on the...

This lesson plan helps children make a connection between the digital and analog clock. In general, the number system is based on units of ten which can sometimes make it difficult for children to realize that time is based on cycles of...

In this unit plan students will be examining the causes, events, and consequences of the First World War. To launch this project students will create passports that they will use throughout this unit and in the World War II unit. The...

This lesson provides a chance for the students to order decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least. The numbers are based on a student's ability. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...

This lesson, Pass It Down, integrates science and math into two consecutive hands-on genetics activities that should be embedded within an existing genetics unit suitable for biology students. The results of each activity will be...

This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...

The goal of this lesson is for students to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae,...