Global Participation
Science Projects Free to Users of Global Thinking
Science As Inquiry supports three Internet-based science projects that enable your students to conduct inquiry investigations locally and share their results globally. In each of these projects, your students investigate a problem in the realm of environmental science.
Green Classroom
In this project, students work together to complete 6 "Green" Investigations to assess the environmental quality of their classroom. Environmental sustainability is the underlying premise of the notion of green.
Project River Watch
The second Internet Project supported by Science-as-Inquiry. In River Watch, students investigate a local stream to determine the quality of the water and environment near the stream. Data is shared globally.
Project Ozone
Project Ozone is an Internet Project supported by the Science-As-Inquiry Website. Students explore the deterioration of Stratospheric ozone, and monitor ground-level ozone near their home or school, and share data with other project schools.
For example, in Project Ozone, your students monitor ground-level ozone at your school, their home, or other designated sites. They observe and make measurements of related variables such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed.
In Project River Watch, you and your students investigate the quality of the water in a local river, stream or body of water. Project Green Classroom invites students to assess the environment of your classroom by examining and monitoring a variety of indoor parameters.
But what makes these projects interesting is that you can post your data on fillable webpages linked to the projects so that your data can be shared with others around the world. You can also click on a link in each project to access all the data, and download the data into Microsoft Excell, or other similar programs for data analysis.
Text Reference: Chapter 7, Science as Inquiry
Project Ozone Activities: There are five activities in Project Ozone. In the first two, students find out about the differences between the "ozone shield or layer," and ground level ozone. The the next two activities, your students monitor ground-level ozone in their community, and then share their data with other schools in a global study. Finally, students develop a strategy for doing something about the problem associated with ground-level ozone, and the deterioration of the ozone in the stratosphere.