CUES Instructional Design

What's in CUES?

CUES is exciting. You will investigate, read science stories, and do research. Some investigations are hands-on activities. In others, you must interpret text, maps or data. Science stories are written by Earth scientists to reveal the nature of science. They show you how scientists solve problems. Investigations and science stories help you to learn concepts and prepare you for a research project in each unit. Each project is like a scientific problem. Projects take one or two weeks to do and present. But that's science. Real problems take time to solve!

The Core Questions of CUES

Five core questions will guide your scientific study of the Earth. These questions are the basis for the whole course. You can't answer the core questions by doing one activity or by reading one story. Instead, you must use each investigation to form ideas about the core questions.

1. What makes the Earth a system?
   
2. How does the Earth system change?
   
3. How do humans interact with the Earth system?
   
4. What are the characteristics of scientific knowledge?
   
5. How is scientific knowledge developed?

© 2008 All rights reserved. American Geological Institute, 4220 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302-1502.
Please send any comments or problems with this site to: webmaster@agiweb.org.
Privacy Policy

This project is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (grant no ESI-0095938). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.