Let's Visit is an informative speech assignment given to students in a fundamentals of public speaking class to improve global competence.

These resources are for enabling children to think critically about health claims and make well-informed choices. They include a combined comic and text book, an exercise book, and a teachers' guide. The resources have been tested in an experiment with over 10,000 children, which showed they improve children's ability to assess health claims. They have been translated to 12 languages.
The comic book is also available as a set of videos with professional audio narration.

I use this (fictional) transcript of an initial client interview to get students thinking and talking about the component parts of an initial client interview and how an initial client interview might best be structured. I ask students to read the transcript before class and make an outline of what the interviewer is doing at different points in the interview. In class, I recruit students to read multiple parts of the transcript out loud, with breaks in the action to discuss what the interviewer is doing and how it might be done differently. The interview focuses on disability-based housing discrimination but no prior knowledge of disability or Disability Rights Law is needed for students to understand what's going on.

While the ionic composition of surface seawater is basically the same anywhere in the world's oceans, the chemistry of inland waters can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. In this activity we explore a data set on surface water chemistry in almost 5000 lakes across the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland). Water chemistry of lakes in this mostly sparsely populated region does not carry a strong signal from local human activity. This allows us to explore large-scale gradients related to distance to the ocean, soil and landscape characteristics, post-glacial history, and effects of long-distance pollutant transport processes.

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Students will review the inner planets of our solar system as well as their characteristics.

This resources was created for  English Language Learners to inquiry into the English Passive Voice. It is an interactive reproducible that takes the learner through the Inquriy Cycle. A Google Doc and PDF Version are also provided. 

This project was designed to have students read as story and evaluate and analyze the entire book to answer one driving question. Students will work on determining what makes a good friend and what characteristics they tend to look for in a friend. There are mini activities to get the student's minds thinking instead of just having them get right into the assignment. Inquiry projects force students to analyze and think about the work they're completing.

This is my math inquiry project for algebra students. It is focused on the central question: "When does the risk of going to school outweigh the cost of snow days?" This lesson includes a grabber, central question, culminating activity, and assessment.

In this project, students will research different WWII leaders and make a brief 3-5 minute presentation about their specific leader. Once every group has presented, the entire class will hold a discussion/argument about why they believe their leader was the best WWII leader.

This a inquiry based project about the topic of government surveillance. This includes the driving question, grabber and culminating activity. This also includes a number of different resources that the students can use to do research.

Inquiry Project for Health and Wellness

If two inscribed angles intercept the same arc, then the angles are equal. Drag the orange points to change the figure.

This sequence of seven assignments, dubbed “Research Arc,” was created over a decade of teaching introductory research writing to students of all majors at University of Oregon. My primary goals in developing this sequence were to build a culturally responsive and collaborative learning environment and model a thoughtful and conscientious research process that prevents common research pitfalls like de-contextualization of sources, sloppy documentation, and confirmation bias.

My first step was creating an open and unifying course theme, which I title “Making a Better World Through Research and Writing.” This theme acts as an “umbrella” for the course by covering many ideas and questions intersecting through decades and across disciplines. Under this umbrella, students are empowered to research issues that are meaningful to them, personally and academically, while still fostering stimulating connections between their diverse range of research projects. This umbrella theme evolves with current events and between sections of the course, such as via sharing an inspirational list of previous research topics with which former students have been especially successful.

This resource provides guidance on site selection for the GLOBE Atmosphere data collection protocols. Instructions for building an instrument shelter, a snowboard, an ozone measurement station, and a wind direction instrument are included.

An introduction and homework assignment over adding and subtracting positive and negative integers.

This second lesson in negative integers carries the "real life" concept (temperature and debt) to the number line. Students will work with number lines with positive and negative numbers.

This presentation is an introductory lesson on integration of crop-livestock systems in the United States. The lesson includes national Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Standards, objectives, and a student project. This lesson is intended to be inquiry-based, and as such only foundational information is presented. Students are expected to take the introductory information and find specific information needed to solve the problem posed at the beginning of the presentation. It is expected that at a minimum this lesson will take three 50-minute class periods and could take longer based on teacher preferences.

Students in our online, introductory geoscience courses are given the opportunity to participate in an environmental service learning project, led by the Center for Earth and Environmental Science (cees.iupui.edu), and reflect on the local and global impact of their service in a short writing assignment. The goals of the optional service learning participation are to (1) provide hands-on field experiences to students in online classes, (2) allow opportunities to connect course concepts to real-life environmental issues, and (3) increase students' environmental awareness, and (4) apply an understanding of sustainability to participation in environmental restoration projects. As part of a larger study with CEES, students complete a pre- and post-environmental awareness survey.

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This lesson plan goes over the basics of intellectual property rights and laws that protect intellectual property. There are some links to real world examples in the presentation as well. This lesson plan includes a presentation, worksheet, and a key.