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Ciese: Human Genetics Project: Is the Dominant Trait Most Prevalent?

For Students 9th - 10th
Human-Genetics: A Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait allows you to collect data and share your results with students around the world. Register your class, complete the student survey, participate in discussion boards, and interact...
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Ciese: Down the Drain Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Teachers can start this project at any time and no registration is required. Students collect data about water usage for themselves, their homes and their class. They analyze it, make predictions about it, and submit the data to the...
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Ciese: Population Growth Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this collection of nine lessons, students use data from the U.S. Census to create population growth models and to examine the impact of changes in population factors such as age, demographic, etc.
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Ciese: Historical Treasure Chests

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After learning to distinguish between primary and secondary sources, learners will examine four primary documents and address a set of questions for each.
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Ciese: Tsunami Surge

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Science project, students use real time data on the Internet to study tsunamis and what causes them. They will look at videos of real tsunamis such as the 2004 one in Southeast Asia. They will then devise a safety plan and a...
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Ciese Navigational Vectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this project, students use real time data to learn how pilots navigate when they fly. Students go through a series of lessons on vectors, weather maps and flight tracking, then take a pilot's test where they apply what they have...
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Ciese: Air Pollution: What's the Solution?

For Students 9th - 10th
Outdoor air pollution poses a major threat to human health and threatens the ozone layer. Students will examine real time weather data in this extensive unit to learn how air quality is measured, its health impact on at-risk populations,...
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Ciese: Collaborative Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a variety of science topics, these projects link your class with classes around the world in data collection and analysis. There are projects recommended for all grade levels. Begin dates and end dates are listed to help in...
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Ciese: The Stowaway Adventure: Engineering Lesson: Designing Your Own Travel Bag

For Teachers 5th - 8th
After listening to the presented scenario, students are asked to design, create, and test a prototype of a bag that can carry their belongings and meet certain criteria.
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Ciese Collaborative Projects: Down the Drain: How Much Water Do You Use?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How much water do you use everyday? Find out in this engaging investigation, where you compare your water usage with your classmates and other people around the world. An exploration filled with lots of math and science that students are...
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Ciese: Biodynamic Farming: A Systems and Global Engineering Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an excellent project where students investigate biodynamic farming techniques. They then collaborate with students from around the world to design an aquaponics system for cultivating fish and plants that can be used in an...
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Ciese: Stowaway Adventure Project

For Students 9th - 10th
For this project students will learn how to track a real ship across the ocean and use real time marine data, including weather patterns, to predict when it will reach its destination. Teachers have the additional option of enrichment...
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Ciese Real Time Data Projects: The Stowaway Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this series of Internet-based learning experiences and activities, learners will use real-time data to track a real ship at sea and monitor weather conditions. Includes a teacher's guide with problem-solving lesson plans...
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Ciese Collaborative Projects: International Boiling Point Project

For Students 9th - 10th
An Internet project designed to determine the greatest influence on the boiling point. After reading the project instructions and performing the experiment, submit your data and compare your results to other classes from around the world.
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Ciese Collaborative Projects: Down the Drain: How Much Water Do You Use?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Meet another classroom and study how much water your class uses compared to another class that may be in another part of the world. Through a variety of activities and gather data be able to collaborate with others via the internet to...
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Ciese: Water Purification

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The lessons on this site are designed to explore the Water Purification Project. For each lesson plan, there is a link to the lesson plan itself and another link to the lesson plan for that particular lesson plan.
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Ciese: The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are asked to use the engineering design process to construct a house for the third pig in The Three Little Pigs story that can withstand the huffing and puffing of the wolf.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education: Reverse Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use reverse engineering to examine, classify, diagram, and identify the purpose and technological impacts of the components of two different single-use cameras.
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Ciese: Water Purification Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A project through which students research the need for clean water, the technologies related to water purification, and design a component for a water purification system to be installed in a developing country.
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Satellite Mapping of Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation

For Students 9th - 10th
This review was formulated to offer recommendations to the United States Agency on International Development concerning global development practices with regard to deforestation activities. It suggests that satellite mapping of tropical...
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Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
If you're studying the weather, this is an excellent project for students to develop their understanding of how weather is measured. They will use real time data from their location as well as from around the world to learn about weather...
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Ciese: Scratch My Back: Children's Engineering Activity

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan is based on the book Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup. In the book, a big, smelly bear has an itch in the middle of his back and can't scratch it. Nothing the bear tries works. Using the Engineering Design Process,...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Home Lighting in Developing Countries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The lessons included on this site are for the Home Lighting in Developing Countries Project. For each lesson, there is a link to the lesson itself and another link to the lesson plan for that particular lesson.
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Ciese: How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Based on the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming. Young scholars must use the engineering design process to plan and build a barrier that will keep hungry bunnies out of a garden.