What’s your Pedigree? – 8172
Summary This assignment is designed to allow students to answer the authentic question “How can a pedigree be used to make predictions for the inheritance …
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Destination Mars – 7483
Summary NASA’s Digital Learning Network at the Goddard Space Center presented a series of challenges in a project called Destination: Mars. The students were challenged …
Invading the Bay – 7121
Summary In our effort to develop problem based learning activities for our students, the fifth grade team posed an authentic task for students to consider. …
Matter Cooking Show -7481
Summary In this cross-curricular lesson driven by an authentic task, students were able to explore the changes of matter, identify ways to gather information, and …
Planet Saving Environmental Engineers-7202
Summary “Global warming, a hole in the ozone layer, toxic waste, widespread pollution. Environmental issues are not something that we should just sweep aside. The …
Unknown Identification – CSI Style – 8171
Summary Honors chemistry students are given a set of 10 unknown chemicals that they must identify using techniques that they have already used in the …
Genetic Avatars – 7645
Summary This lesson was a modification of a low technology activity that was used to demonstrate inheritance of human traits. The teacher jazzed up the …
Chitman Wildlife Tracking Co. – 7480
Summary This project was designed as an opportunity for SOL standards to be met and exceeded through relevant experiences, critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and …
Zoomania – 7320
Summary Students were presented with the task that “A new zoo is being built in our area. Our class has been asked to create informational …
Vet School Candidate Challenge – 8000
Summary Students in this school’s College Readiness Center program demonstrated skills in collaboration, research, data collection, analysis, & interpretation as part of a simulated veterinary …