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Grade Range: K - 11
Participate in engaging, collaborative projects for Science and Engineering education as you make science "real" from around the globe. Analyze water use in “Down the Drain” or participate in “Global Water Sampling.” Record your area’s temperature in “Global Temperature Data” to find the patterns between distance from equator and temperature, or investigate human traits in “Human Genetics.” While in the project, browse additional links that include teacher guide, project instructions, data, discussion areas, galleries, and references. Downloads use Word, Excel, and Adobe acrobat. Right-click and "save target as" to download to your computer.
In the Classroom
To participate in the collaboration, complete the registration and enter data during the project window. What to do if you are not in the window time frame? Generate your data but compare instead of posting to the project. For an example, use the Human Genetics collaboration to survey the dominant traits present in your class. Students analyze their data and compare to the downloaded National data. Use the data from any collaboration for presentations, create recommendations (water use), and apply information to student lives. An interactive whiteboard would be a terrific tool for comparing and creating comparison graphs. Elementary teachers will want to combine these projects with geography lessons, too!
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