1. Goals for Student Learning
All students learn through…
an inquiry-based curriculum rich in discovery
student-designed experiments, original observations
data collection, analysis, synthesis & presentation
In Sum: students engage in the practice of science, in order
to construct an understanding of the natural world

2. Think Globally, Measure Locally
Begin with hands-on field investigation
Surface water chemistry - precipitation & stream
Compare local data with national/global data sets
Learn fundamental Earth processes

6. Buffering reactions and ion exchange in soil
H2CO3 + CaCO3 = Ca2+ + 2HCO3-
a3H+ =
K21K2CO2P2CO2K2
2Kcal
aH+ = at T=25C

11. Student Comments I like being able to draw conclusions from data.
It helped me because I was doing it.
We get to think about how everything works together through the maps we produced ourselves.