Design of a Door Alarm

10 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): David C Eichinger, Erin K Doherty, James Daniel Lehman, Venkatesh Merwade

This grade 4 design task helps students learn about simple circuits by designing a door alarm.

Design of Musical Instruments for a Rock Band

10 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): David C Eichinger, Erin K Doherty, James Daniel Lehman, Venkatesh Merwade

This grade 3 design task helps students to learn about sound by designing a stringed musical instrument.

Sound Absorption

09 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

This grade 3 lesson plan focuses on a design task to create a wall to absorb sound.

Exploring Whirligigs

09 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

This inquiry lesson, for grades 3-4, involves students conducting a fair test investigation to determine the way an object (a whirligig) falls through the air and how this fall depends on its mass, surface area, and other factors. This lesson is an adaptation of a lesson developed by...

Exploring Whirligigs

09 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

This inquiry lesson, for grades 3-4, involves students conducting a fair test investigation to determine the way an object (a whirligig) falls through the air and how this fall depends on its mass, surface area, and other factors. This lesson is an adaptation of a lesson developed by...

The Case of the Pilfered Pin

29 May 2013 | Lesson Plans | 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.

Pill Bugs' Habitat Inquiry Activity

11 Nov 2012 | Lesson Plans | 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).

Problem Based Approach to Instruction

17 Feb 2012 | Downloads | 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...

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

17 Feb 2012 | Downloads | 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...

PBL Developing a Driving Question

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

RGS Summer 2011 PBL: Developing a Driving Question

Calculating the Potential Energy of Flowing Water

17 Feb 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Kari Clase

RGS Summer 2011 Week 1 Material: Student Activity

PBL Summer 2011 UV Activity Notes

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

RGS Summer 2011 UV Bead Activity Experimental Design Notes

PBL Facilitation and Questioning Strategies

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

RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material

PBL Challenge Investigating a National and Local Problem

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

RGS Supplemental Material Summer 2011 EDCI 627000

Hydroelectricity

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

RGS Summer 2011 Participant Presentation Hydroelectricity by Team Watt-er

WAKE the Water 2: Hydroelectric Power

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars | 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?

Quixote Industries Presentation

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars | 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?

Solar Power: Is it the IN thing?

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Melissa D. Keown

RGS Summer 2011 Presentation: Solar Power: Is it the IN thing? Can solar energy collection devices be viable choices to lessen Indiana's dependence on fossil fuels?

Solar Too!

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Dane Brown, Cortnaye Smith, SIDNEY RAY DOBSON

RGS Summer 2011 Solar Energy Presentation: Is it feasible to utilize solar power in average Indiana homes?

Using Questioning to Facilitate Discussion of Science Teaching Problems in Teacher Professional Development

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

Previous research has shown that questioning is a key strategy that facilitators use topromote discussion in Problem-Based Learning (PBL). Yet, there is a lack of detailedunderstanding on what questions facilitators ask and how those questions aff ectdiscussion. In this study we examined diff...