Using Bloom's taxonomy, students will learn about one of the major roles of Congress, that of formulating and making policy.

Three teachers describe how they used the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in their classrooms. One teacher used it to teach a fall unit on cranberries, another teacher used this technique in a gingerbread holiday unit, and lastly, a...

Was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo a fair compromise to end the Mexican-American War? Students will dissect sections of the treaty to summarize and formulate a conclusion to that question.

"Will you please let me know if I am free?" wrote Annie Davis. Annie Davis was a slave who wrote this letter to President Lincoln 20 months after the Emancipation Proclamation. To understand her confusion, examine the following documents...

Use this activity as an introduction to adaptations. Young scholars will view video clips of birds and formulate their own observations and explanations for the different types of bird beaks and how they are used.

Students will plan a paragraph that states their opinion and cites evidence to justify their opinion about an informational text. This lesson uses biographies since students can easily be able to write down factual information from the...

This 35-minute interactive tutorial models the research process via the story of Quentin, a UMUC student. It takes him through the various research process steps: understand how to locate background information on his topic by showing...

A comprehensive list of the important steps in researching and writing a report or project. Includes links to tip sheets for each step.

In this activity, students will explore the Law of Large Numbers. By examining unfair models, they will expand their understanding of probability. They predict the weighting of an unfair model by analyzing experimental data and...

This lesson is a distance learning collaborative project involving another school. Each school will do research on the other school's state and be able to answer questions about that state posed by the other school. Students learn not...

Build a simple wind tunnel to help formulate and answer questions about how wind influences animals and plants, and then use it to explore why geese fly in formation and to examine why certain plants do not break in strong winds.

Provides examples and a video lesson that illustrates parallel and perpendicular lines.