Students examine how they affect water quality of those who live downstream after identifying rivers and river basins in Kansas.

Students examine the importance of dam projects in the Kansas-Lower Republican River Basin. Students create and experiment with a model of an earthern dam.

Middle schoolers examine the role the river played in the settlement of towns in the basin. Student groups prepare an oral presentation on Milford Lake, Tuttle Creek Lake or Perry Lake.

Students collect water samples from a local source, test it, filter it and identify the materials suspended in it. Students disucss the possible sources of sediment in their watershed.

Students study the benefits of reservoirs while locating and identifying water sources that flow into Tuttle Creek Reservior.

Students understnad the importance of keeping our rivers and streams pollution free by remembering the major rivers of northeast Kansas. The see how the rivers contain particles of every substance that drains into them.

Young scholars examine how rivers flow through the country to sea level. Students study how upstream pollution effects the water and people downstream.

Students gain an understanding of ways we can be responsible custodians of our water supply. Students explore the governor's clean water initiative involving the Lower Kansas/Republican river basin and the pollutants present there.

Students research the priorities and needs of an assigned country. They come together and debate current events from the point of view of the country they are representing.

First graders examine a database to explain the use of primary source documents.

Fourth graders research and discuss the importance of Gail Borden and his printing press to the history of Texas. They write a newspaper article from Gail Borden's viewpoint.

Students research propulsion, graph data, and interpret the results.

Fourth graders create an organized report which includes specific information about their assigned animal. They use the Alpha Smarts program and Microsoft Word to create their reports.

High schoolers find the relationship between the variables based on experimental data. They determine mathematical relationship between pH and the amount of hydrogen Ions in solution.

Students research the Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive (CRBEHA) and use a variety of primary sources to explore the history of blacks in the region.

First graders take a walking tour of their community to discover the names of numbered locations on a premade map. They then, create their own map of the community on the computer using Kidspiration software.

Students gather information about the rainforest and the environment from the Internet. They analyze the impact that humans have on the environment. They also collect and organize data they find on the rainforest.

Students use the Internet and create questionnaires to determine how to help seriously ill students to function optimally at school. They find ways to accomodate the needs of those students and create a weblet to help them.

Seventh graders use the Internet to gather information about a disease. They also discuss in groups how diseases are a worldwide problem and brainstorm ideas they can help. They create an informational packet on the disease they researched.

Ninth graders complete a unit of lessons on how the Internet is used as a resource for journalists. They visit a newspaper office, conduct Internet research, conduct an interview, and write a newspaper article using their researched...

Third graders investigate the three zones of the ocean and the plants and animals that live in each zone. Projects produced are shared with classmates in a share circle where the unique features of the animal and zone selected are...

Students examine the role of globalization in developing countries. They write grant proposals to fund a development project that focuses on a specific development strategy.

Students observe different demonstrations on the greenhouse effect. They build their own models to show the phenomenon. They discus the role of greenhouse gases on global warming.

Young scholars participate in an experiment in which they gather and examine particiles in the air. They place pollution detectors at different locations and identify problem areas. They discuss how engineers can use this type of...