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The guiding question of this investigation is, How are the life cycles of living things similar and how are they different? The purpose is to give stu...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, Why do wolves live in groups? The purpose of the investigation is to use the disciplinary core idea so...
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The guiding question and purpose of this investigation is to figure out, How similar are earthworms to each other? Accomplishing this task, students...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How similar are offspring to their parents? Students will use what they know about traits and patter...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How do differences in soil quality affect the traits of a plant? Students will use what they know abou...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, What was the ecosystem at Darmstadt like 49 million years ago? Students will use what they know about p...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How does fur color affect the likelihood that a rabbit will survive? Students will use what they know ...
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The purpose of this investigation is to give students an opportunity to use the disciplinary core idea adaptation and the crosscutting concept of cau...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, What weather conditions can we expect here during each season? Students can use information about the d...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How does the climate change as one moves from the equator toward the poles? Students can use what they...
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What Have You Heard About Climate Change?
The goal of this session is to set the stage for student investigations into the complex topics of global warming and climate change. Students first p...
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Sources of CO2 in the Atmosphere
In this session, students discover some sources of CO2 in the atmosphere and compare their relative concentrations. The primary objective, in addition...
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The greenhouse effect is critical to understanding the basic mechanism of global warming. This session uses two types of models to help students under...
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Fact or Phony? Scientifically Evaluating Data
This session begins by students looking at a purely fictional web page cleverly disguised as factual. Students are challenged to learn important infor...
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Conducting Research on Current Climate Change Topics
This session leverages the power of student discovery, viewed through the lens of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), to support students’...