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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Sci Girl: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
SciGirls has the bold goal of changing how millions of girls think about science, technology, engineering and math -- or STEM. Each half-hour episode highlights the processes of science and engineering, following a different group of...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Stream Velocity Investigation Using Inquiry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An outdoor activity where students visit a local stream for a scientific inquiry. They make observations about the stream, and take measurements of the stream's velocity, depth, and width. They will also develop a sediment thickness...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Inquiry Teaching Students to Ask Questions That Can Be Investigated

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students will investigate leech activity and learn to ask a question about leech behavior that can be investigated. They will design an experiment to answer the question and present their results using a chart.
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Website
Other

Saskatoon Public Schools: Instructional Strategies Online: Interactive Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Increase learning by encouraging students to interact with peers and teachers through interactive instruction strategies including debates, role playing, panels, brainstorming, and many more. Then click on some of the strategies to learn...
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Activity
American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Color Changes With Acids and Bases

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Graphic
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Strategies: Inquiry Chart

For Students 1st - 9th
This instructional strategy strategy encourages students to gather information about a topic from several sources.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Marine Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The marine environment is unique and requires technologies that can use sound to gather information since there is little light underwater. The seafloor is characterized using underwater sound and acoustical systems. Current...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: From Here to Narnia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will provide eighth grade Language Arts students with an inquiry-based research project based on C. S. Lewis' classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The student will determine the author's purpose in writing this...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: How to Get High Quality Student Work in Pbl

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article and video addresses the ability of students to produce quality work which is a common concern of teachers with Project Based Learning. Learn how to guide students to create high quality...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: How Did I Start My Very First Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: What Does It Mean to Align Pbl With Common Core?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Seeing the phrase "CCSS Aligned" on everything and wondering if it truly aligned? This article and video discusses five considerations to look for in problem based learning. To ensure alignment to...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: The Role of Pbl in Making the Shift to Common Core

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article and video discussing how problem based learning can help teachers with the curriculum shift to the Common Core. Understand how the big ideas within the common core can be fulfilled with PBL....
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Pbl Brings Authenticity to International Baccalaureate

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look into schools using project based learning integrated with the International Baccalaureate program. Website includes an article as well as video exploring this framework.
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Mazer Tag

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by a work site using a laser to measure in the water, this teacher decided to do a project-based learning lesson with students the required them building an obstacle course that they had to maneuver a laser beam around. Part of...
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Article
Arizona State University

Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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Website
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Concept to Classroom: Webquests

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site shows how to use technology in the classroom and not be afraid of it! WebQuests are an inquiry based online tool for educators to use in the classroom. All the information during the lesson comes from the World Wide Web and...
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Interactive
Other

Indiana University: Atlantis Remixed

For Students 9th - 10th
A research-based, immersive 3-D world where students aged 9-15 can have an impact and feel a sense of empowerment as they strive to make the world a better place. Has a wealth of resources, including research articles, educational and...
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Uncle Tom's Cabin

For Teachers 7th
A comprehensive learning module based on the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task....
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Gender Wage Gap

For Teachers 12th
A learning module on wage inequality based on gender. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students examine the difficulty in quantifying...
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Article
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Systemwide Implementation of Pbl

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An eight-page article describing how Philadelphia implemented PBL system-wide in its out-of-school time (OST) programs. The authors begin with a short review of the scholarly literature on PBL and its...
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Website
Other

Buck Institute for Education: Designing Your Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Step through each of the five design principles presented here to learn how to design effective, engaging projects, and how to manage the process successfully. There are tools for creation, management, and assessment of projects...
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Biodynamic Farming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this module learners learn about biodynamic farming through hands-on activities that culminate in having multiple schools collaborate to design subsystems that are combined to make a working aquaponic system. During the SAGE...
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: Hands on Is Minds On

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As students put projects together, create crafts, or use familiar materials in new ways, they're constructing meaning. Students love to touch and manipulate materials and this can activate kids' brains. This article gives tips for...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: We All Need to Lead 21st Century Learning

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article discussing the call for action to spread the word that "PBL is the how to get to the 'what' of 21st century learning."

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