Students predict, observe, and explain how pillbugs, grasshoppers, stink bugs, and humans stay safe and protect themselves.

Students use lecture and research to answer the question: Why is the sky blue? students research a variety of other sky phenomena, chart their observations and participate in experiments.

Students find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.

Learners gather information on the geese and cranes found in Nebraska. Students explore ways they can help save their habitats. Also, learners use additional general information they connect artwork to their research topic.

Students take part in a number of activities that center around a spring theme. They draw the steps to show process of growing seeds.

First graders differentiate between (adult) male and female crickets through observations, counts, and drawings of crickets.

Students observe, discuss, and record the requirements of a healthy environment for both arthropods and people by designing and maintaining an artificial habitat for an arthropod.

Students explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.

Students work together to develop their own parachuting probe. They test it and record the results. They simulate other experiments that are going to be carried out by the Huygens probe.

Third graders search TDC database for images of our hemisphere, continent, ocean, country, state, and city. They identify their place in the hemisphere, continent, ocean, country, state, and city.

Young scholars listen to the story of Johnny Appleseed. They create a chart of students favorite apples. They access the Internet and research nutritional information and facts about apples.

Students discuss the upcoming renvoations to their school. As a class, they develop their own proposals for what they would like to have available to them. Using a digital camera, they take pictures of the new school and compare them...

Second graders identify: why the Pilgrims came to America; how they adjusted to life in America; what impact the Native Americans had on the survival of the Pilgrims; and what events brought about the First Thanksgiving.

Students set, and attain a goal using a daruma, a Japanese folk toy.

Eighth graders create a database of animals and birds in the area in which they live. They use molded prints to make a cast of an imprint from a specific animal. They identify and research animals and prepare an outline for an oral...

Young scholars will be introduced to the Greco-Roman myth of Phaeton and how he created the Milky Way galaxy by critically analyzing The Fall of Phaeton by Rubens. They will then create their own constellation to be displayed in a...

Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.