About This Website
About this website. This website is part of the ISP (Inquiry-based Science Project) Tutor, for middle school students. It was developed under a research grant from the Department of Education to Prof. David Klahr (PI) and Dr. Stephanie Siler (Co-PI) and a team of middle school teachers and education researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The content of this website is based on Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and designed to support students' background research for common science fair project research questions (e.g., the research question shown above).
You and your students can also use this website as a resource to find various science units at the
middle school level (and some more advanced topics at the high school level). Consistent with NGSS, these units were written to emphasize causality among science concepts and variables.
Cross-cutting concepts (as defined in NGSS) are emphasized across units in different domains to help students
develop generalized, robust understandings of these concepts.
To find relevant units, you can type search terms into the search box above (scroll past any ads) or click on one of the four
science area topics above.
To see a full list of all units available on this website,
click here.
A lesson that provides support for conducting background research can be found by clicking the green "Lesson" button above.
***Note for Teachers: You can access more information about this website and find other resources for science inquiry on the ISP Tutor website.
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The TED project was funded in part by the Institute of Education Science (IES), Grant R305H060034, and in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant SBE035442. The ISP Tutor project was funded by IES, Grant R305A170176.
The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305A170176 to Carnegie Mellon University (Klahr Lab). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.