Sixth graders investigate peer pressure, gangs, drinking, and using drugs. In small groups, they conduct research, develop, edit, and write a three-minute script, and perform the script for the class.

Ninth graders research, analyze, and orally defend an issue related to the use of geologic resources. They defend their position in written form by composing a letter to an appropriate source.

Students identify the types of information gathering styles and different surveying styles. They distribute a survey around your school to determine the different forms of transportation used to get to school.

Students research and they role-play the behavior of plants and animals in a salt marsh habitat as the tides change.

Middle schoolers use clustering/mind mapping techniques to generate ideas, graphically represent inferences, organize their conclusions and write a report that presents conclusions the writer has reached, and facts substantiating those...