Cadie Buckley
“The Systems Education Experiences inquiry-based learning curriculum fits perfectly with my teaching philosophy, and has the potential to empower scientists, students, educators and citizens to approach and resolve complex problems facing their communities.”
– Cadie Buckley, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Amanda Cope
“These kits have been very well designed so that teachers can fit the modules into their own curriculum and use the given modification to help meet their own unique student learning needs. . . They also allow me the ability to make sure that my students are experiencing inquiry and making connections while working with real world situations.”
– Amanda Cope, Leaders in Learning High School, Monroe, WA
Layout Test
Introduction: In this activity, the students will be introduced to the fascinating world of extremophiles. The students will brainstorm questions and research these unique organisms. In the following lesson, students will be presented with a real life example of an event that affected the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, the building of a causeway. Based on observations of this phenomenon, students will generate hypotheses about factors affecting the growth of one…