Level A - Single Visit Research Challenges
Foul Water
North Carolina Science Standards
Science as Inquiry - As a result of activities in grades 9 - 12, all students should develop:
The ability to do scientific inquiry.
Understanding about scientific inquiry.
Abilities to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, equipment, and technologies.
Mastery of integrated process skills.
o acquiring, processing, and interpreting data.
o identifying variables and their relationships.
o designing investigations.
o experimenting.
o analyzing investigations.
o constructing hypotheses.
o formulating models.
What Childhood?
Massachusetts Social Studies Standards
Learning Standard 3: Research, Evidence, and Point of View. Students will acquire the ability to frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research; to collect, evaluate, and employ information from primary and secondary sources, and to apply it in oral and written presentations. They will understand the many kinds and uses of evidence; and by comparing competing historical narratives, they will differentiate historical fact from historical interpretation and from fiction.
Level B - Challenges Requiring 2-3 Visits
What Digital Revolution?
California Standards
Students must "evaluate the structure, style, and content of the authors works."