Inquiry+Projects-TELS

= = =TELS/Technology Enhanced Learning of Science = Innovative set of curriculum modules designed by science education researchers to help students learn abstract concepts in science through the use of modeling and simulation tools embedded in an inquiry learning environment. **TELS (Technology Enhanced Learning of Science) Center** online projects, each of which takes about a week to do with students are widely tested, research-based modules set learning objectives in the context of an engaging narrative. They are:
 *  [|Global Warming: Virtual Earth (2008/09)] **
 * Grade Level: ** 5-8 **Duration:** 7 day(s)
 *  [|Hanging With Friends, Velocity Style!] **
 * Grade Level: ** 7-9 **Duration:** 5 day(s)
 *  [|Global Climate Change: Who's to Blame?] **
 * Grade Level: ** 6-9 **Duration:** 4 to 5 day(s)
 *  [|Rock Cycle: Igneous Rocks] **
 * Grade Level: ** 6-9 **Duration:** 6 day(s)
 *  [|Thermodynamics: Probing Your Surroundings] **
 * Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 7-10
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Duration: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Physics / Thermodynamics day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Plate Tectonics: What's On Your Plate?] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 6-8 **Duration:** 5 day(s)]
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Genetics: " Simple Inheritance"] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 6-8 **Duration:** 5-6 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Mitosis & Cell Processes] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 6-10 **Duration:** 4 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Ocean Bottom Trawling, What A Drag!] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 7-10 **Duration:** 5 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Airbags: Too Fast, Too Furious?] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 11-12 **Duration:** 5 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|How Can We Recycle Old Tires?] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9-12 **Duration:** 4-5 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Phases of Matter and Phase Change] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9-11 **Duration:** 5 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Will Gasoline Powered Vehicles Become a Thing of the Past?] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 10-12 **Duration:** 5-6 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|TELS Chemistry: Chemical Reactions] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9-12 **Duration:** 5 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Birds of a Feather Evolve Together] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9-10 **Duration:** 5 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Improving Your Community's Asthma Problem] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9-12 **Duration:** 5-10 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Space Colony! - Genetic Diversity and Survival] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9-12 **Duration:** 5-7 day(s)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> [|TELS: Mitosis and Meiosis] **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grade Level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 9-12