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| Senior Infants - 1st Class (ages 5-7) |
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Meet the Bears |
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Grade: Senior Infants-1st Class Subject: Science, Math, Writing | | Topic: Animals | | Essential Question: How are we like other animals? | | Description: How many of ME would it take to outweigh a polar bear? To get in touch with their inner bear, primary students look at bears from all angles, and apply math and measurement skills to compare themselves with their furry friends. |
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 3rd - 5th class (ages 8-10) |
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| Food for Thought | | | Grade: 3rd-4th class Subject: Science, Math | | Topic: Nutrition, Health, Consumer Awareness, Persuassion | | Essential Question: How can I stay healthy? | | Description: Elementary students learn about health, nutrition and consumerism as they create a new fast food restaurant that offers healthy and appealing foods. |
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| 6th class to 1st year (ages 11-13) |
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Density: Got Gas? | | | Grade: 6th Class to 1st year Subject: Physical Science | | Topic: Properties of Matter | | Essential Question: Why is the universe the way it is? | | Description: Students engage in a variety of investigations related to the density of liquids, solids, and gases. They also build hot-air balloons and experiment with variables that affect flight success. |
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| 2nd - 3rd year (ages 14-15) |
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| Junior Cert Physics - Lenses |
| | Grade: Junior Cert year 3 Subject: Science | | Topic: Physics / break down into sub-topics e.g. lenses | | Essential Question: What is the effect of lenses on light? | | Description: Scientific process is central to the revised Junior Certificate syllabus, which amongst other things, aims to encourage the procedural, cognitive affective and communication skills through practical activities that foster investigation, imagination and creativity. |
| Junior Cert Physics - Density |
| | Grade: Junior Cert year 3 Subject: Science | | Topic: Physics / break down into sub-topics e.g. density | | Essential Question: What's the relationship between an object and it's density? | | Description: Scientific process is central to the revised Junior Certificate syllabus, which amongst other things, aims to encourage the procedural, cognitive affective and communication skills through practical activities that foster investigation, imagination and creativity. |
| Junior Cert Physics - Stretching Investigation Tool | | | Grade: Junior Cert year 3 Subject: Science | | Topic: Physics / break down into sub-topics e.g. stretching | | Essential Question: What is the correct method to carry out and evaluate an investigation? | | Description: Scientific process is central to the revised Junior Certificate syllabus, which amongst other things, aims to encourage the procedural, cognitive affective and communication skills through practical activities that foster investigation, imagination and creativity. |
| Designer Genes: One Size Fits All? | | | Grade: Years 2nd-3rd Subject: Genetics | | Topic: Economics, Science in Society | | Essential Question: Just because we can, should we? | | Description: Student genetics experts help farmers in a blight-stricken region of Mexico decide whether to use genetically engineered corn. |
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| 4th - 6th year (ages 16-18) |
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| Camera Works: A Pinhole View of the World | | | Grade: Years 4th-6th Subject: Physics | | Topic: Photography, History | | Essential Question: How can we communicate our interpretation of the world around us? | | Description: Following a study of the physics of light, budding photographers conduct research and apply their knowledge of light and optics to build their own pinhole cameras. |
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Plunging into Physics | | | Grade: Years 3rd-6th Subject: Physics | | Topic: Physical Principles, Measurement | | Essential Question: How can we explain the things that happen around us? | | Description: In this unit, students ask questions about their physical world, and design experiments to answer them. They venture out of the classroom with probeware and handheld computing devices to test a variety of physical phenomena. The study culminates in classroom presentations of their investigations. This is a final unit that follows a general physics curriculum. |
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