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Concept mapping

• In junior and senior high, students create a concept map with multimedia components to represent their understanding of concepts, such as a presentation of a food web in an ecosystem.

Multimedia

• In junior and senior high, students use CD-ROM reference material to obtain information on scientific topics.
• In junior and senior high, students create a multimedia portfolio or report of a concept with supporting graphics, animation, video and audio.
• In junior and senior high, students use a scanner to input graphics or data into a report. For example, grade 9 students identify and explain the role of an animal's structural adaptations in locomotion, securing food, and avoidance of predators.
• In junior and senior high, students use a digital camera in the field to capture pictures that may then be manipulated and put into a report or database. For example, grade 8 students could classify and describe an environment in terms of the abiotic factors that characterizes it.

Internet

• In junior and senior high, students access current and realistic data for use in classroom activities.
• In junior and senior high, students participate in collaborative online science and problem solving activities.
• In junior and senior high, students participate in live research taking place in the field, e.g. Mt.Everest Climb, Amazon Jungle Trek, Mars Mission.
• In junior and senior high, students contribute data from experiments collected at the school site to databases or data-gathering sites on the Internet.

Spreadsheet

• In junior and senior high, students organize and display data in table or graph form to predict, compare, classify, infer, or measure outcomes. For example, in grade 10, students graph data showing how the density of water varies with temperature.
  

Database

• In junior and senior high, students collect and organize researched data into a searchable database. For example, in grade 8, students collect and organize data about various types of rocks and their key characteristics and in grade 10, students classify bacteria according to strain and other characteristics.

Software and simulations

• In junior and senior high, students use a simulation that allows the manipulation of variables that may otherwise be too dangerous or expensive. For example, in chemistry, students can repeatedly perform simulated experiments with different chemicals and in biology students can identify the effects of radiation on organisms.
  

Calculator-based laboratory

• In junior and senior high, students use temperature, pH, humidity, or light probes connected to a calculator (or computer) to collect data.
• In junior and senior high, students use blood pressure, heart rate or EKG devices devices connected to a calculator (or computer) to collect data.
• In senior high, students use force and acceleration sensors connected to a calculator (or computer) to collect data.
• In senior high, students use plant transpiration sensors connected to a calculator (or computer) to collect data.
• In senior high, students use solution concentration sensors connected to a calculator (or computer) to collect data.
• In senior high, students use oscilloscope sensors connected to a calculator (or computer) to display the wave forms of various sounds, beats, pitches and frequencies.
• In senior high, students use electrical current and voltage sensors connected to a calculator (or computer) to collect data.