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Selecting A Destination
Middle schoolers utilize atlases, maps, and Internet resources to select destinations and places to stop along the way on a day trip. They examine and write about the reasons they want to visit the particular places they chose.
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Further Study Of Neoclassicism And Romanticism
High schoolers conduct Internet research to answer the remaining N/R questions. They are encouraged to contact and communicate with N/R professors or other experts, either singly or over e-mail discussion lists.
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What Causes Irregular Temperature Patterns?
Students examine common trends in climate across the U.S. They identify the anomalies in hot-cold temperature differences in the U.S and locate them on the map using latitude and longitude coordinates.
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Is Temperature Effected By How Close You Are to the Equator
Students collaborate with other schools to gather temperature data from a large number of locations. They determine how the average daily temperature of a location is affected by how close you are to the equator.
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Planting
Students form groups to conduct an experiment. They plant seedlings to test the effects of sunlight, water and soil, on the growth of seedlings.
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What Makes a Healthy Plant?
Students predict the effects of water, light, and soil on the development of a plant and then design an experiment to test their predictions.
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Application
Students apply and generalize data, and prepare and present an oral presentation with a visual aid.
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Presentation of Findings
Students compile and format their findings from the worm bins, the plant activity, and their Internet research on related topics into scrapbooks.
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Growing Plants with Worm Castings
Pupils test worm castings for content and use them to grow seeds. They hypothesize which castings best sustain seed growth. They observe growing plants to test their hypotheses. Later they graph their data.
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Worm Bin Project Data Exchange
Students work collaboratively to exchange data with their peers (groups of students at other schools) about their worm bin project. They discuss differing findings and hypothesize reasons for these differences.
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Introduction to Worm Bin Project
Students observe the decomposing process of the food chain in a worm bin. They observe whether the type of food fed to worms affect the castings given off during the decomposition process. They learn and practice graphing their findings.
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Technology's Influence on Language
Learners use Internet resources to examine the influence of technological terminology on English and other languages.
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What's in a Name?
Students use Internet and library resources to find the meanings of their first and/or last names and discuss the evolution of the concept of naming individuals.
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Critiquing the Neoclassicism/Romanticism Project
High schoolers request feedback on their projects from Neoclassicist/Romanticist experts they have contacted via e-mail or other means. They work in pairs to critique each other's work.
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Story Assignments
Students choose their beats and decide what areas of school and community news they cover.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit:
Students conduct secondary source research using the internet and library resources to research the backgrounds of their family's cultural and ethnic heritages.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Oral Histories
Young scholars conduct oral histories of family members to explore their cultural and ethnic heritage after developing a set of research questions.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Response to Essays
Students receive and read electronic reviews of their essays.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Final Drafts
Pupils develop final versions of their position papers and add them to the school's web pages for review and feedback.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Rough Drafts
Pupils submit rough drafts of position papers and post them on computer networks for review.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Thesis Development
Pupils identify areas of interest and conduct preliminary research using on-line and library resources to develop their thesis statements.
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Global Warming: The Greenhouse Effect Visualizer
Learners work in small groups to study the various aspects of global weather and discuss the possibility of a Greenhouse Effect.
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Immigration Explorations, Part I
Students visit a number of web sites on immigration created by other Students, evaluate types of research used, structure of sites, and what types of information were included.
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Revisiting Pocahontas
Students discuss the characteristics that make a historical resource reliable. As a class, they brainstorm a list of examples of possible historical resources and why they are important. In groups, they discover the consequences of...