Search: Intensive, 1.2.1 Display initiative and engagement by posing questions and investigating the answers beyond the collection of superficial facts.
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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| What Makes A Snack Healthy? | Students are concerned about obesity and healthy eating habits. They want to know if all popular snacks are bad for you and how to determine the nutritional value of various snacks. They tackle the following essential questions in their study: What snacks do we like to eat? What’s in our snacks? How healthy are the snacks? What snacks might be healthier? | 5 | |
| Community history | Seventh grade students conduct a community history investigation that centers on the essential questions: How has our community changed over time? What caused or influenced these changes? How can we find out? | 7 | |
| Nutritional Value of Snack Foods | Fifth grade students investigate the nutritional value of foods, specifically determining which snack foods are healthiest,and prepare a brochure based on their research for the school health fair. | 5 | |
| Burr Airlines Flight to Asia: building inquiry skills | This lesson is designed to call upon student prior knowledge and build student knowledge of and interest in India, China and Japan in order to stimulate student wonder and inquiry. Students formulate research questions that are subordinate questions of the three essential questions dictated by the district social studies curriculum: How do Asian people interact with the land?; How do they interact with one another?; and How are they affected by their beliefs? | 3 | |
| News Reporting | Teaching students to brainstorm, create, and present news stories is a powerful and productive way to give them 21st Century Skills, as recognized by AASL and ISTE. Learning the techniques of researching, discussing, collaborating, writing, video recording, and reporting are important skills, which help students learn to study subjects in greater depth, which results in greater understanding. Student pairs will research a topic, which they believe will be of interest to their peers. | 8 | |
| Famous African American Research | Students will apply the research process in a major project that involves several lessons. The students will read about and describe the lives of historical figures and their place in history. The student can use knowledge of the conventions of language and texts to construct meaning for a range of literary and informational texts for a variety or purposes. The students will use the writing process to construct meaning and communicate effectively. | 2 | |
| Where can I Find it? | Essential Questions: Where can I learn more about the different functions of teeth? What is the difference between an encyclopedia and a dictionary? What is the difference between digital reference sources and print reference sources? What are the primary functions of the incisors, canines and molars? How can looking at an animal's teeth help us determine what types of food they eat? | 1 | |
| Thematic Analysis Research Paper - English 11: Part 3 - Note Taking | In a unit to write a thematic research paper for English, students return to the library for two final 90 minute class periods to access the sources discovered during the location and access days and begin to take notes for their research paper. The essential question is: How well is my theme supported in critical literature? | 11 |