What is WISE?

The Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) is a free on-line science learning environment for students in grades 4-12, supported by the National Science Foundation. In WISE, students work on exciting inquiry projects on topics such as genetically modified foods, earthquake prediction, and the deformed frogs mystery. Students learn about and respond to contemporary scientific controversies through designing, debating, and critiquing solutions — all on the World Wide Web!

Images of WISE at work (from back to front): A WISE project open in an Internet browser; an on-line data visualization activity; students working collaboratively on a project.