Students will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and exercise, or...

Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.

Check out how students paralleled Cyrano de Bergerac to popular music hits during a project-based learning lesson in English class.

Want to learn how to forecast ocean weather? This c.o.o.l. project lists each of the steps in the scientific process, and has you work through each in this earth science based project.

Three sets of videos - ten in all - showing teachers using inquiry-based learning in real classrooms.

Students will write an essay on the history of Bacon's Rebellion based on the analysis of sixteen primary source documents.

Lessons using primary sources to figure out what happened in the past allows students to examine and perhaps crack the mysteries that swirl around Byrd and his expedition to Antarctica to this day. Primary sources are available on the...

A cross-curricular lesson plan working out needs of a town where fish are dying in the local waters, how can water be purified, how daily activities impact the water supply, and what role does chemistry play in the way individuals use...

This article reviews advances made by medical researchers since the complete mapping of the human genetic code ten years earlier. Although the expectation then had been that cures could be found for many diseases based on this new...

Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, this lesson focuses on teaching students how to revise a rough draft. Links to the 6-traits are included.

Through this project-based activity, young scholars will do research on and create an oral presentation based on the life of an influential Famous American. Students will utilize various means to glean information, from online databases,...

Students will write in a technical genre. "Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical:...

"For this project based lesson plan, students learn about various types of energy and the need to conserve energy, write a children's story about saving energy, and read their energy books to elementary students."

This lesson focuses on the concept of Biomimicry and students learn how engineers have incorporated structures and methods from the living world in products and solutions for all industries. Students then work in teams to develop a...

In this activity, students will create a word processing document that will define four dilemmas in the game cards from Would You Rather? Lots of Would You Rather question examples can be found online. (The Part 2 activity can be found...

This language arts projects motivates students through being a movie-based project. This lesson will have a duration of five days. The students will view a movie of their choice and analyze the movie to complete a chart listing literary...

In this lesson, third grade students will explore "fossils" by using chocolate chip cookies in an interactive fossil dig! Through creative problem-based learning that incorporates technology, students will work in collaborative groups to...

This lesson helps children make a connection between the digital and analog clock. In general, the number system is based on units of ten which can sometimes make it difficult for children to realize that time is based on cycles of...

This site provides guidance in creating literature circles based on cross-curricular themes that will help to improve literacy. The site emphasizes both theory and practice, with lots of practical suggestions.

Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...

In this unit plan students will be examining the causes, events, and consequences of the First World War. To launch this project students will create passports that they will use throughout this unit and in the World War II unit. The...

The goal of this lesson is for learners to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae,...

This activity is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this activity, Curling your Tongue, middle schoolers determine how many...

This lesson provides a chance for the students to order decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least. The numbers are based on a student's ability. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...