Analysis of Information

This module is to be implemented following Activity 50 in Unit C "Micro-Life". Activity 51 has been integrated into the module; choosing to implement the remaining activities is up to the teachers discretion. Prior to teaching this module ensure students have a strong background in how...

Reading and writing are taught as one subject in the fourth grade curriculum. Although an emphasis is placed upon writing in this module, the students will practice skills and concepts by reading informational articles about the topic of recycling then combine that knowledge into writing opinion...

In this task, students assume the role of a real estate agent hosting open houses to inform potential buyers of the home’s attractions. Students choose the home that they will represent and create a few different open house speeches that will inform and persuade potential buyers that this home...

In this task, students imagine that they are joining an expedition to explore one of the Egyptian pyramids. As the physicists in the group, they have been tasked with the job of getting a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) unit up the side of a pyramid.

After choosing a pyramid to explore,...

Students write an argumentative paper about school violence in the United States, using evidence from resources studied and discussed in class, as well as their own research findings. Students identify a specific problem related to school violence and then propose a solution to help decrease the...

In this task, the students mathematically model changes in the bee colony numbers from the United States and from two individual states, California and South Dakota.

Students then use their constructed mathematical models to describe factors affecting the bee colony populations. The...

This project will introduce students to their first time writing a statistical analysis paper and collecting their own data.

First, students will practice sampling using a random number generator to understand sampling methods and how to choose the best methods.

Second, students...