Students will read excerpts from the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and research the risks and benefits of DDT. Students will then pretend that they are living in 1962 when the book was published, and write a letter to their senator arguing whether or not the government should ban DDT based...
This module is intended for students to read provided articles and conduct limited research on a monumental sports play in either football, basketball, soccer or baseball and relate it to forces, and Newton's Laws of Motion. The final product will be an essay that examines the causes of ball...
This module has been developed from the Battelle Design Module Template. The Squirmy Science module, which addresses life science standards, is for middle school students who are new to the design process. The class is taught within the context of a STEM school that has an eight-week science...
This module has been developed from the Battelle Controlled Experiment Module Template to help students through the scientific process of asking a question, gathering background knowledge, developing and carrying out testing, gathering data, analyzing data, and reporting on that analysis. This...
The goal of this module is for students to learn about the importance of population balance in marine ecosystems and how human activities (specifically fertilizer run-off from nearby farmlands into the Mississippi River) can impact energy webs by changing predator/prey relationships. A lab...
