There鈥檚 a new lesson plan from Ohio鈥檚 for fourth grade teachers throughout the state. It鈥檚 designed to help students use critical thinking and problem solving skills.
The takes fourth graders through the using thermal energy detection, combing through cell phone records, utilizing DNA and other pieces of evidence. Mike DeWine says the idea of the program is to help kids apply academic disciplines to real life circumstances.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not just science but they learning how to analyze. This gives them some experience in writing. You even get some social studies involved here. So it鈥檚 a lot of different disciplines coming together.鈥�
The program is free of charge and available to teachers in elementary schools, after school programs, summer camps and home school settings.
