Students will work collaboratively to gather information about various groups of gelatinous zooplankton. They will be able to compare and contrast at least three different groups of zooplankton organisms and describe how gelatinous zooplankton fit into marine food webs. Groups will prepare a brief written report summarizing the information they have found and orally present to the rest of the class.

Students conduct Web searches on open-ended questions and draw on their experiences to develop guides to searching effectively and finding reliable information online.

This resource contains a series of resources and videos to guide students through the research process.

In 1899 and 1900, Secretary of State John Hay issued what became known as the Open Door Notes to foreign powers involved in China. Secretary Hay called on those powers to respect the rights of each other, to agree to an open market and equal trading opportunities for merchants of all nationalities, and to respect the territorial and administrative integrity of China.

This project motivates students to learn about organic gardening by developing their own research questions, conducting research, and gardening at their school. Students will plants seeds in a class garden, observe and write about the plant's growth, document their research and observations on a sign to place by their growing plant, and present their findings to the class.

Students will learn about deep-sea tubeworms. Students will work collaboratively to create a poster or three-dimensional model of a tubeworm. Each group will then prepare a written report describing the anatomy of tubeworms, how a tubeworm obtains food and the symbiotic relationship between the tubeworm and chemosynthetic bacteria, and the role that tubeworms play in the larger cold-seep food web.

In response to Harriet Tubman’s request for a letter of commendation, Fredrick Douglas wrote a testimony of her character, hard work, and sacrifices for the sake of freedom from bondage while marking the differences in their leadership styles for the common cause. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

Students research the ways that humans impact coral reef ecology and identify some of the organisms that live in coral reef habitats. They will write a narrative essay as if they are one of these organisms and discuss how they are affected by human activities such as over-fishing, habitat destruction, pollution, etc.

This resource is a guideline to basic steps in listing key details and words in a research paper.

Students will have an opportunity to develop such "live interviews" with ancient athletes; working in small groups, they will produce a script based on the results of their research and they will perform the interview for other students in the class.

In this lesson, students create a multimedia slide presentation containing facts, graphics, and sounds relating to a biographical figure based on their reading of a biography or an autobiography.

Students learn about the subjective value of objects in this Moveable Museum lesson plan by "interpreting" each other's important cultural artifacts. The 11-page PDF guide has educator materials with background information, teacher strategies, assessment guidelines, and detailed notes about the curriculum standards addressed.

In this WebQuest students will research the natural history and biological diversity of the Mono Basin, an environment directly affected by the needs of humans. They will explore the unique environment of Mono Lake, the extreme forms of life inhabiting the area, the role of Mono Lake in the search for extraterrestrial life, and the impact humans have made on the area. In the end, they will be faced with a very tough decision: Are humans justified in taking water- the very life- from the Mono Basin to satisfy their needs?

This resource is a guideline to making an outline for a research paper.

This resource is a guideline to making note cards for a research paper.

This resource is a guideline to basic steps in making source cards and documenting citations for a research paper.

This resource is a guideline to making a title page for a research paper.

This resource is a guideline to making a works cited page for a research paper.

Students investigate different marine ecosystem types, identify examples of these ecosystems and their characteristics, and locate the ecosystems on a map of the world's oceans.

Students investigate marine food webs and trophic levels, research one marine organism, this activity sand fit their organisms together in a class-created food web showing a balanced marine ecosystem.