Your Brain: Don’t Leave Home Without It
Students identify and explain the physical and cognitive processes that occur in the brain during a given scenario.
Dogs, Pigeons, and Texts
Students explore classical and operant conditioning and design an experiment to test a hypothesis about human behavior.
Atoms, Molecules, Bonding, and Beyond
Students research the benefits of antioxidants and their reaction between free radicals to explore chemical bonding.
Whom Should We Ask?
Students select a policy issue and write a proposal to an interest group suggesting which branch of government to target.
Gender and the Sexual Division of Labor in Our Workplaces
Students read From Margin to Center and conduct field observations on gender and division of labor in the workplace.
The Ups and Downs of Unemployment
Students write a research paper examining the causes and effects of unemployment in the U.S. over the past two decades.
Is College Worth It?
Students conduct research and calculate the marginal costs and marginal benefits of a college education.
Assessing Wuthering Heights as Representative of Its Era
Students read Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and explore the question of what makes a novel “representative” of its era.
Tracking Your Taxes
Students research taxes and choose one tax to take a position on and argue for action (or not) based on their research.
Understanding and Resolving School Violence
Students write an argumentative paper about school violence in the United States, using evidence from research.