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Rqi: Three and Four Year Old Students Learning to Ask Their Own Questions
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...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Life's Little Questions: How Do Bees Fly?
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Great Golly Graphs
This lesson plan asks students to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: State Jeopardy How Much Do You Know About My State?
This activity 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. Learners learn not...
US National Archives
National Archives: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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.
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Umuc: Secrets of My Research Success
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...