One powerful use of computers is to sift through large amounts of data to find the patterns hidden within them. Take a list of countries, for example, and look for relationships between the dominant religion and birthrate; between GNP and literacy; between government type and continent. In this assignment, you'll identify a standard that could be met by such exploration, use an online database (or create your own), and describe how you would implement it with learners. This assignment can be done individually or by a pair.

Each lesson of this type begins with a problem to be solved, an issue to be explored, a decision to be made, or a question (semi-open ended) to be grappled with. This lesson format is different from a WebQuest in that it focuses on a single online database as the source of information. 

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