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What is Project-Based Inquiry Science?
Students Learn Like Scientists and Engineers
• Based on research in the cognitive and learning sciences.
• Developed through rigorous, iterative, research-based cycles.
• Integrates science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas.
• Big Questions and Big Challenges guide instruction and organize learning progressions.
• Collaborative groups engage in rigorous science discourse.
• Students design investigations, generate data, assess the trustworthiness of their data, make claims, and justify claims with evidence-based explanations.
Engineering and Science Go Hand-in-Hand
The individual units present three types of projects:
• Solving an engineering problem: Students are presented with a realistic community scenario and a problem they need to address.
• Addressing an engineering design challenge: Students iteratively design, build, and test a device.
• Answering a Driving Question: Students answer a complex science question about a phenomenon that has real-world implications.
The IEA invites current 7th grade students who demonstrate exceptional academic ability and intellectual precocity to apply for the Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship, a national program that awards selected applicants with a four-year scholarship to a high school th7th Grade Parents at nurtures and supports each individual scholar's intellectual and personal needs. Eligibility requirements, frequently asked questions and applications are available on the Caroline D. Bradley page of the site.
