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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| What Was Life Like in Ancient Hawaii? | The essential question is what was Hawaii like in the past? Students describe the culture and geography of ancient Hawaii by searching for information in a range of resources and combining information and visuals from their research in the form of digital posters. | 4 | |
| South America: Geography's Effect on People's Lifestyle and Work | The essential questions are: What are landforms? Which landforms do we find in South American countries? How do landforms determine how people live and work in South American countries? | 3 | |
| Children in Japan and Hawaii: How Are We Alike and Different | The essential questions for this unit are: How are children in Japan like us in Hawaii? How are children in Japan different from us in Hawaii? | 1 | |
| Cloning: Should We Be Doing It? | In this project students gather and analyze information on research relating to cloning, identify the positive and negative impacts of cloning, and take an individual stand on how they feel about cloning. Students address the following essential questions: What is happening in genetics research on cloning? Why should we care about this research? How does it affect our lives? How do different stakeholder groups view this research? How do I personally feel about cloning? Why? | 12 | |
| Building a Greener Community | Students delve into different areas of community life and the importance of using existing resources in effective and efficient ways. They also consider alternatives to creating greener environments that may be innovative approaches. In their investigations, they address the following essential questions: What does greening a community involve? How green is our community at this time? How can we build a greener community? | 8 | |
| Cyberbullying Among Teens | Students learn the importance of creating storyboards as first steps in designing their podcasts. To build their storyboards, they wrestle with the following essential questions: Why do teens engage in cyberbullying? How does it affect the victims? What can we do to stop cybebullying? | 9 | |
| Explorers Project | Students will apply the research process for this multiple class unit. They will read about a particular explorer, learn about their aims, challenges and accomplishments, and will trace the routes they followed on maps. As a group, they will generate questions to use during the "Interview with an Explorer" section. Students will gain practice in writing skills to communicate effectively as they create a journal from the Explorer's point of view. | 5 | |
| It's Debatable | Eighth graders will be able to articulate connections between selected historical and current issues. Students will be able to explain at least two sides of an issue. This lesson is designed to help students answer two essential questions. Is history relevant to modern issues? Do issues have clear wrongs and rights? | 8 | |
| 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 | |
| Rock Star Road Trip | Just what is there to do and see in this country anyway? We don't often ask students what their interests are. Through personal choice in music, this activity encourages students to visit other cities, apply real-world tools, and discover just what there is to do in other places. May be conducted collaboratively with music (genre), social studies (geography), and Math (economics)or may be taught in isolation. | 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |