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Working alongside Galileo professional developers, teachers
have created a number of inquiry-based studies. When designing
and developing these studies, teachers work collaboratively
through the io
design process with their mentor and colleagues. As teachers
design tasks for and with their students, teachers are asked
to consider how what they are creating is:
- situated in a larger context of a discipline and body
of knowledge
- allowing the students to see themselves as designers
- allowing the students to engage in work that is personally
important and meaningful
| "The scientific mind does
not so much provide the answers as ask the right questions."
Claude Levis Strauss |
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Primary Grade Projects
Humanities
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 Artistry
of the Land, Ancient Stories and Art of Our First Nations
People - Grades 2/3
Congratulations to Lorraine Flavelle, Pam Irving, Barb
Martin and Richard Gaskell as co-honourees of the international
2001-02 SIGTel Online Learning Award. The teachers and
children of Dr. Morris Gibson School, Millarville School
and Red Deer Lake School worked with Galileo Educational
Network on this award-winning project. |
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2006 SIGTel Online Learning Award Winner
Calgary
Stampede and Treaty 7 First Nations: A Historical Perspective
- Grades 1/2 and 4 S
Since the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, the Treaty
7 Nations have played an important role in the annual
celebrations. A Grade 1/2 class from Prince of Wales
School and a Grade 4 class from Piitoayis School worked
together at the Stampede School classroom on an inquiry
study into this historical relationship. Traditions
have been made new again as the children experienced
the Stampede cultural celebrations and new friendships
formed as the children researched this historical partnership,
learning from First Nation Elders and Stampede Historians.
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Heritage
Homes of Okotoks: Past, Present and Future - Grade
2/3
Okotoks is a community with many heritage buildings and
so the study of the past, present and future became a
real life possibility for the students. Their first step
was to go on a heritage walk around Okotoks. Using all
of their senses and working together in groups, they began
to gain an understanding of what it would be like to be
inside of these buildings in the past. |
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Journey
of Risk and Discovery - Grades 2/3
Many of the journeys are like a flowing river. Some journeys
are pleasant and require very little effort simply floating
on a warm sunny day and then suddenly things change where
we can loose control like rapids on a river. At the end
of a journey we are changed in some way. What is a journey?
Would you go? Who would you take? Why would you go? |
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Millarville
- Grades 1-6
This year being the Millennium and also the 25th anniversary
of the Millarville Community Library. This project started
the teachers talking about what they could study with
the students that would help them gain an understanding
of the importance of celebrating the past and also, at
the same time, looking at the present. |
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Richness of Words: A Journey into the Past - Grade
2/3
As we look, feel, smell and listen to the artifacts that
we can find in Okotoks can we begin to understand the
stories that they can tell us about the history of our
community. Through using our senses are we able to make
our own connections, viewpoints and opinions more important
to ourselves and the people we know. As the grade 2 and
3 students explored the past, they made a movie of their
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What
Stories Do We Have To Tell? - Grade 1/2
This website has been created in support of our Galileo
inquiry project, "What Stories Do We Have To Tell?"
The word "HAVE" in this question takes on
two meanings. The children are learning that everyone
and everything has a story. All you need to do is ask
a question.
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Understanding Our Heritage Guides The Future - Grades
2/3
This inquiry based project looked closely at the history
of the community and people of Millarville from the
perspective of the land. It was a full year focus for
the grade 2 & 3 students as they followed a process
of inquiry that evolved as much as it was directed.
The places it led and the things that were learned were
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Science
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Endangered...Extinct
- Grade 1
Nature has wiped the slate clean of up to 96% of all species,
and provided the survivors with a world full of opportunities
into which they can diversify. a number of times throughout
Earth's history. These are the mass extinction's, when
more than 50% of the Earth's species vanish in the geological
instant of a few million years. |
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Exploring
Kainai Plants and Culture - Grade 4
The first thunderclap of spring tells us that the Thunder
Medicine Bundle may be opened. Sipatsimo (or sweetgrass)
and aakiika'ksimii (or sage), our most sacred healing
herbs of mind and spirit, grow here at the Belly Buttes,
our sacred Sundance site.
It is all here: the land, the plants, our ancestors
and our future. One is held within the other. You cannot
know the land without knowing the plants placed here
by the creator. You cannot know the creator without
knowing the plants. You cannot know the plants and their
healing powers without hearing the stories. It is one
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Fish
Story - Grade 1
The Kindergarten and Grade 1 scientists in Mrs. Boxma's
class are investigating fish. They have generated many
questions and are busy searching for answers. They are
extending their knowledge by carefully observing the fish
that live in their classroom aquarium and by researching
in depth the lives and habits of one particular species.
So far they have discovered that fish have bones, blood
and scales. They figured this out when they cooked and
ate some jackfish as part of their research study. These
students are helping others develop some important understandings
about many aquatic creatures. |
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Robotics
- Grades 1 - 4
Engaging students in science and engineering inquiry. |
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Waste
in Our World - Grade 4
Garbage day used to mean pitching out old newspapers,
bottles and soup cans with the rest of the trash. Today
many Canadian households are now choosing to dispose of
their junk in other ways. Your task is to determine how
typical you are. For one week you will be keeping track
of what happens to the following waste products in your
home: paper, metal cans, glass bottles, plastics or products
requiring special disposal such as used oil, paint, tires,
etc. |
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Middle School Projects
Humanities
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Big Valley: Then and Now - Grade 3, 4, 5, 6
Culture can be defined as the way of life of a group of
people. In other words, how we as people interact with
our environment and with each other. In our study we will
look at the cultural aspects of Big Valley at the height
of the railway boom, 1910-20's and at present day. Through
this study students will determine what aspects of Big
Valley culture were important to pass on to their generation
from those in the past and what aspects of Big Valley
culture will be important to pass on to future generations. |
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Frankenstein
- Grades 4 and 5
A story comes to life in more ways than one. The grade
4/5 and 5/6 classes began their journey by reading the
story of Frankenstein. Soon, conversation was flying –
Do scientists have moral obligations? Who controls scientific
knowledge? Is making a human okay? Just because we can,
does it mean we should? Students soon began an anatomy
investigation, holding debates around current moral issues,
and decided to make a movie. “Everything in moderation
Frankenstein. " "Nothing in moderation Clerval. |
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The Family Farm in Spirit River, Alberta - Grades
5/6
Farmers feed the world. Sometimes it is easy to forget
how important the work and lives of farmers is. From the
earliest arrival of settlers more than 100 years ago,
farm life has been the backbone of our province. This
study looks at the past, present and future of farming
in Alberta by concentrating on Spirit River, a small agricultural
community with a rich history and an important future. |
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Heroes
- Grades 5 - 9
Heroes of a different sort are back in the news, in the
movies and on the Best Seller lists. The success of the
first two "Lord of the Rings" movies, a re-discovery
of J.R.R. Tolkien's books by a new generation, and September
11/01 have provided us with powerful images of heroism.What
are the true marks of a hero? What is it that causes people
to act heroically? What is the cost of being a hero? Do
heroes sacrifice themselves for others? Are real heroes
often found in unlikely people? |
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History of Cowboy Culture - Grades 3, 6, 8 
Stories of ranching and cowboy life have been sung and
told around campfires in the hills surrounding the Bar
U Ranch for over a century. Two grade 3 classes from Red
Deer Lake School, a grade 2/3 class from Millarville School,
and students in grade 6 & 8 from McLaren School worked
together on an inquiry study into the culture, the challenges
and the future of the cowboy. The untold stories, poems
and memories of cowboy life are retold in video, poems
and stories through the voices of the children. |
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The
Hobbit - Grade 5
Starting with the question, "What does it take to
leave the comfort of home to travel to unknown lands?"
this group of children and their teachers embarked on
a year-long inquiry. |
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Rural Roots - Farming in the Palliser Triangle - Grade
9 Social Studies, Language Arts and French
In the mid 1800s Captain John Palliser launched an expedition
to study this area and its potential as an area for agriculture.
Well, his reports were not exactly encouraging. He thought
that the land was, "ill suited for civilization,
a region of short grasses and shrubs and desert-like conditions,
where cacti grew along the coulee ridge." |
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Science
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The
Blue Planet - Grade 8
The blue planet is unique because it is where water exists
as a liquid. It is because of this fact that life in all
its diversity thrives. When the number of human beings
was small their effect on the planet was also small. But
over the past 100 years the number of people on earth
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Bridging
the Gap - Grade 7
While this may be true, let's not forget certain structures
that were built without carefully considering forces
... for example: the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, popularly
known as Galloping Gerty, opened to traffic in 1940.
Travellers who were brave enough to drive across, said
that it was like riding on a giant roller coaster because
of the wild rocking of the bridge. Four months later,
during a wind storm, the bridge collapsed. And this
bridge disaster still has people talking, well arguing
really, as physicists and mathematicians argue about
the true reason that the bridge collapsed.
The fact that man has the ability to take materials
from the surrounding world and join them, shape them
and alter them to create amazing structures is most
intriguing. The fact that our grade seven students can
learn these design principles is even more intriguing.
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Our Farming Roots in Castor - Grades 3, 4, 5, 6
Since its beginning, the town of Castor has been involved
in the agriculture industry. Many changes have been made
in farm production. Residents of our community have wonderful
stories of their lives in rural Alberta. A lot of these
stories revolve around feeding the family. Recently there
has been an interest in old varieties of seed and rare
or old breeds of animals. These are referred to as Heritage
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Millarville Archaeology - Grade 4, 5
Why did our teacher keep finding rusty nails and shards
of pottery every spring as she dug her vegetable garden?
When she showed us what she found we became curious.
How did they get there? Who left them there and why?
We decided to look more closely at the artifacts from
the garden and from home as a part of our study of Alberta's
history and natural resources. |
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Robotics
- Grades 5 - 9
Engaging students in science and engineering inquiry. |
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Structures
- Grade 7
"How has the need to be strong and
to support various necessary loads influenced the development
of all sorts of creatures, devices and systems?"
J.E. Gordon
This is wonderfully intriguing question about structures,
both naturally occurring and humanly constructed. In speaking
about "the need to be strong", it asks why things
don't fall down, which is an issue of mechanics, and why
they don't fall apart, which involves issues of aesthetics,
philosophy and all the social sciences. Human beings seem
to be intuitively attuned to structures. |
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Senior High Projects
Humanities
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Democracy
in Iraq - Social 10, Social 30
Two classes in two different cities researched and prepared
for a videoconference discussion around topical and contentious
issues. They were guided and supported by a political
scientist. There are ten video extracts available on this
page that tells a part of the larger story of the experience
of Susanne Bechtold, a teacher at the National Sports
School. |
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Fallen
Angels - English 33
Webquest project on the novel Fallen Angels by Walter
Dean Myers. The project looks at understanding the novel
by looking at different points of view of the people involved
in the the Vietnam War. |
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Global
Interdependency - Social and English 20
To look is one thing
To see what you look at is another
To understand what you see is yet another thing
To Act on what you know is all that matters
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Heroes
- English
Heroes of a different sort are back in the news, in the
movies and on the Best Seller lists. The success of the
first two "Lord of the Rings" movies, a re-discovery
of J.R.R. Tolkien's books by a new generation, and September
11/01 have provided us with powerful images of heroism.What
are the true marks of a hero? What is it that causes people
to act heroically? What is the cost of being a hero? Do
heroes sacrifice themselves for others? Are real heroes
often found in unlikely people? |
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Lord
of the Flies - English/Drama integrated study from
Highwood High
What kid did not fantasize, at one time or another, about
being left alone, completely unsupervised, for a long
period of time? Imagine your delight at being able to
say or do whatever you pleased, whenever you pleased?
You could eat what you wanted, go to bed when you decided,
miss school, and behave as you please without reproach.
You could be your own master. This scenario is presented
by William Golding in his novel The Lord of the Flies
but it is not what you might have imagined. |
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Media
Literacy- English 10/13, 20/23 & 30/33
In this project you will examine print advertising and
how it affects us. You will have the chance to develop
your own ad in response to what you have learned. |
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Our
World, Our Voices, Our Responsibility - Social 23
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human
race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems.
But there are tens of thousands of years in the future.
Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we
can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." Richard
Feynman |
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Riverrun:
Evolution or Genocide? - Humanitites 10
History is a story written from a particular point of
view and what we have come to know as the truth is shaped
by these perspectives. Using primary sources, the novel
River Run and online resources, students explored the
stories behind the vanishing of the Beothuk people. |
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Sciences
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Body
in Balance - Science 16
An in-depth look at the body's internal systems. |
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Chemical
Warfare - Chemistry 10,20,30
Chemical weapons are a very real danger in the world today.
The Canadian Government, in response to this danger, has
announced a 170 million dollar, 5 year research and technology
initiative to improve Canada's ability to respond to CBRN
(chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) incidents.
The government is currently accepting proposals to determine
how the money should be spent. |
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Energy
Use and Abuse - Chemistry 30
Climate change is a very current issue that affects the
lives of all of us. This global concern has been discussed
since 1979 and has since been formally addressed in the
signing of the Kyoto Protocol. The Canadian Government
in its efforts to comply with the Kyoto Protocol is asking
for proposals on how Canada can best reduce its emmisions
of greenhouse gases to contribute to the reduction of
global warming. |
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Reality
Bites - Biology 30
You and your partner are biologists who have more than
a few reasons to be concerned about drug use and abuse
in our society. Specifically, you are concerned about
one of the people described in the profiles that have
been provided. It seems that many people who take drugs
are unaware of how these chemicals interact with their
body systems, and you believe that if only people knew
about the hazards associated with certain drugs, they
would stop their reckless consumption. |
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Robotics
- Physics
Engaging students in science and engineering inquiry. |
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Survivor
- Biology 20
A Biology 20 Inquiry Project. Advances in medical technology
and science have made organ procurement, the search and
transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another,
a very important issue. Since the demand for healthy organs
far exceeds the supply, many questions enter this debate
blending medicine with politics, ethics, research, religion,
and other concerns. |
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Use
Your Brain - Biology 30
Disorders of the brain are prominent in today's society.
Celebrities, realtives, people close to us all fall victim
to these dibilitating disorders. Disease does not discriminate |
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