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Elementary

• Solving the "WhoDunIt?" by Marion Rex Grade 6 science students will write descriptions for three "suspects", then choose one to be the culprit of a "WhoDunIt?" mystery. The data will be input into a database with the first two suspects being red herrings and the final suspect being the subject of the crime being investigated. Students will exhange stories and query the database using clues from the crime.

• Sky Science by Travis Whyte This is a four part activity for Grade 6 science including a web-based research component (WebQuest) and a word processing creative writing assignment, an in-class activity sharing stories and a night time observation component.

• Needles and Trees by Chris Jackson Students in grade 6 science will develop a project-based resource to compare the species of trees, coniferous to deciduous in the student's immediate community with another community and with a number of other locations in different climatic regions. Students will predict the predominant tree type for communities in different climatic and physical regions of North America and test their predictions via surveys.

• Discovering Wetland Ecosystems by Joan Chambers Over the course of this unit, grade 5 science students will develop an understanding of and appreciation for wetland ecosystems. Through such activities as field observations of a wetland site, concept mapping, building and querying databases, and researching, students will learn about the interconnectedness of an ecosystem, adaptations, life cycles and a food web of the organisms in a wetland.

• My Community in the Past - Life as a Pioneer by Linda Melnyk
  This project will allow grade 3 students to use technology to explore life in the past, in Alberta, from the 1800's to the early 1900's when Canada became home to thousands of immigrants. They will explore the reasons pioneers came to Canada, how they traveled to their new home and everyday life as a pioneer.
  

Junior High

• How Well Do People Live? by Marianne Rogers Over the course of this long-term project, grade 9 students will engage in a number of individual, small group and whole group activity and inquiry tasks to discover the meaning of quality of life and standard of living, how these measures are determined, and what the measures mean to people in various countries. The students will participate in a collaborative discovery process, utilizing technological skills within the regular language arts and social studies curriculum.

• Culture Through the Decades by Susan Mackey The intent of this study is to help grade 7 students further develop an understanding of culture. By studying the culture of a particular decade students will develop a basic understanding of the unique qualities of each decade. Students will conduct research on a decade of the 20th century. They will create a concept map and a PowerPoint presentation based on their analyses of the concept map. In language arts they will write a diary entry from the viewpoint of a teenager from their decade or create a poem expressing what life was like in the decade.

• Endangered Bird Species by Long Mu This is a classroom project on the topic of Endangered Bird Species for grade 7 science students. The assignments will require students to use MS Access to develop a database, Netscape Composer to create a Netsteps web site, and MS PowerPoint to prepare a multimedia presentation.

• The World of Water by Karen Marlin This activity will comprise two lessons for science 9, specifically Unit C: Environmental Chemistry in the proposed curriculum resource draft. The first lesson is a WebQuest internet activity to gather information about the chemistry of water pollution. The second lesson requires students to create a concept map that illustrates their understanding of water pollution.

High School

• Producing a Commercial by Lorraine Moreau Students of a Television Arts 15 class will spend four months applying knowledge of production values and target audience towards the creation of a commercial campaign for the school cafeteria. The students will design and administer a market survey of the cafeteria and use the results in the development of a TV commercial that meets the needs of that target audience.

• Poetry as a Gateway to Hypertext and Literacy by Blaine E. Hatt English 30 students will be involved in a complex thinking process wherein the skills of content / basic thinking, critical thinking and creative thinking will be applied to an indepth investigation of hypertext and traditional literacy.

• Careers Using Mathematics by Rod McBeath Grade 10 math students will research various careers that use mathematics, such as engineers, carpenters and machinists. They will use the Internet, concept mapping and PowerPoint to prepare presentations for fellow students.

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