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  1. The Case of the Pilfered Pin

    29 May 2013 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    This is an inquiry activity for grades 3-4. Students must measure temperature, mass, and length in order to solve a mystery.

  2. Pill Bugs' Habitat Inquiry Activity

    11 Nov 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    This is an inquiry activity, aligned to grade 4-6 standards, in which students design fair test investigations to determine the habitat of pill bugs (roly polies).

  3. Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental MaterialFor this activity, students will be given a set of materials: cardboard, a set of insulating materials (i.e. foam, newspaper, etc.), aluminum foil, and plexiglass. Students will then become engineers in building a solar oven from the given materials, keeping...

  4. Problem Based Approach to Instruction

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material:This chapter examines the problem-based learning approach to instructionfrom the perspective of instructional design theory and synthesizes the current knowledge and theory into some universal methods, situational methods, and principles for a theory of...

  5. Problem Based Approach to Instruction

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material:This chapter examines the problem-based learning approach to instructionfrom the perspective of instructional design theory and synthesizes the current knowledge and theory into some universal methods, situational methods, and principles for a theory of...

  6. PBL Learning Meets Case-Based Reasoning in the Middle School Science Classroom: Putting Learning by Design Into Practice

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material:This article tells the story of the design of Learning by Design™ (LBD), a project- based inquiry approach to science learning with roots in case-based reasoning and problem-based learning, pointing out the theoretical contributions of both, classroom issues...

  7. PBL Learning Meets Case-Based Reasoning in the Middle School Science Classroom: Putting Learning by Design Into Practice

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material:This article tells the story of the design of Learning by Design™ (LBD), a project- based inquiry approach to science learning with roots in case-based reasoning and problem-based learning, pointing out the theoretical contributions of both, classroom issues...

  8. PBL Developing a Driving Question

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 PBL: Developing a Driving Question

  9. PBL Developing a Driving Question

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 PBL: Developing a Driving Question

  10. Calculating the Potential Energy of Flowing Water

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase

    RGS Summer 2011 Week 1 Material: Student Activity

  11. Calculating the Potential Energy of Flowing Water

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase

    RGS Summer 2011 Week 1 Material: Student Activity

  12. PBL Summer 2011 UV Activity Notes

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 UV Bead Activity Experimental Design Notes

  13. PBL Summer 2011 UV Activity Notes

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 UV Bead Activity Experimental Design Notes

  14. PBL Facilitation and Questioning Strategies

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material

  15. PBL Facilitation and Questioning Strategies

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material

  16. PBL Challenge Investigating a National and Local Problem

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Supplemental Material Summer 2011 EDCI 627000

  17. PBL Challenge Investigating a National and Local Problem

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

    RGS Supplemental Material Summer 2011 EDCI 627000

  18. Hydroelectricity

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Mike Arvola, Joe Brennan, Christine Marie Dora

    RGS Summer 2011 Participant Presentation Hydroelectricity by Team Watt-er

  19. WAKE the Water 2: Hydroelectric Power

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Kathy Daniels

    RGS Summer 2011 Participant Presentation: Is the relatively small amount of hydroelectric power produced in Indiana worth the environmental trade-off?

  20. Quixote Industries Presentation

    17 Feb 2012 | Contributor(s): Jessica Austin, Georgia L Everett, Michael Mieher, Robin L Townsend

    RGS Summer 2011 Presentation: What percent of Indiana's electrical grid energy can be displaced by wind energy in the next 20 years?