The students involved in this project attended an urban school in the Anchorage School District. The 52 students in the K, 1, 2 multi-age inclusive classroom (21 kindergarten students, 20 first-grade students, and 11 second-grade students) spent the entire school day together. Seventeen students needed special education services, seven students used English as a Second Language services, six children functioned above grade level, and one was gifted. This article describes how these students spent a month conducting their own scientific investigation.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 10/1/2000Stock # sc00_038_02_14Volume 038Issue 02

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