Harland, a former high school biology and English teacher who currently works at the Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Illinois State U., uses the same inquiry skills used by STEM professionals to show high school teachers and students the different stages of large-scale research projects in science, technology, engineering, and math. She covers research design, background research and note taking, hypothesis and proposal writing, organizing laboratory notebooks, descriptive and inferential statistics, data interpretation, graphical representations, documentation, and communicating results through writing and oral and poster presentations. Student handouts, presentation observation sheets, and sample assessment rubrics are included. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Harland, a former high school biology and English teacher who currently works at the Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Illinois State U., uses the same inquiry skills used by STEM professionals to show high school teachers and students the different stages of large-scale research projects in science, technology, engineering, and math. She covers research design, background research and note taking, hypothesis and proposal writing, organizing laboratory notebooks, descriptive and inferential statistics, data interpretation, graphical representations, documentation, and communicating results through writing and oral and poster presentations. Student handouts, presentation observation sheets, and sample assessment rubrics are included. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)