This collection of lessons is built around the NSF funded High-Adventure Science project—a set of online curriculum modules for middle and high school science classrooms.
The modules integrate computer models and real world data to help students examine contemporary unanswered questions in Earth science—think climate change, the availability of freshwater, land management, and more. Students explore evidence and discuss the issues of certainty—and uncertainty—with the models and data. Each lesson in the collection includes five activities with complete directions for classroom integration, alignment to national standards, and additional resources for student learning.
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Evaluate how scientists can be certain that Earth is warming while not being entirely certain about how much Earth will warm.
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of different energy sources for generating electricity, with a focus on the hydraulic fracturing process.
Explore the distribution and uses of fresh water on Earth and examine how humans can preserve supplies of fresh water for the future.
Explore the interactions of factors, including human development, that affect a region's air quality.
Examine the resources that make up our agricultural system and compare the effect of different management strategies on the land.
Discover how scientists search for distant planets and how they determine whether those astronomical bodies could be habitable.
Funded by the National Science Foundation
