Materials
hi-ce has worked with a variety of teachers, schools, and organizations to create innovative inquiry-based curriculum materials for classroom use. All hi-ce curriculum materials are designed to address rigorous content standards and to introduce instructional practices that focus on student inquiry, incorporation of technology, and student collaboration around community-based questions. Detailed information on the curriculum materials is available through the links below.
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How Do Machines Help Us Build Big Things? Focuses on mechanical advantage, simple machines, force, motion, distance, and work. Students design a machine to handle a complex work task.
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What is the Quality of Air in My Community? Focuses on chemistry principles (molecules, states of matter and chemical reactions) and air pollution.
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What is the Water Like in Our River? Focuses on watersheds, hydrology, sources and impact of water pollution, and river ecosystems.
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How Can Good Friends Make Me Sick? Focuses on communicable diseases, viruses, bacteria, impact on cells and body systems, and public health considerations.
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Why Do I Need to Wear a Bike Helmet ? Focuses on force, motion (Newton's Laws of Motion), gravity, velocity, friction, momentum, and energy transfer.
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Middle Grades Science Curricula - IQWST
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How Can I Make New Stuff From Old Stuff? Focuses on chemistry content and scientific inquiry practices.
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Struggle in Natural Environments. What Will Survive? Focuses on how individual organisms and populations survive in an ecosystem and the real-world problem of how to deal with invasive species inhabiting local environments.
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High School Science Curricula - Primary Sources Network Materials
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How Can We Design a Cellular Phone That is Safer to Use? Students learn about sound, waves, radiation, and circuits through the design of a cell phone.
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How Can We Design a Battery That is Safer For the Environment? Students learn principles of chemisty and chemical reactions through the design of a battery.
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How Can We Design a Structure for Extreme Environments? Students learn principles of physics and environmental climate factors through the design of a structure to be used in an extreme climate.
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High School Social Studies Curricula - Primary Sources Network Materials
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What Explains Migration To and From Detroit? Historical Investigations into Human Migration in America Four mini-units in history that help students use primary source materials to examine human migration in America to urban centers at various times in history.
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What Explains Migration To and From Detroit? Geographical Investigations into Human Migration in America Three mini-units in geography that help students use primary source materials to examine human migration in America to urban centers at various times in history.
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