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	Home > Portfolio > Content Development : Curriculum Units Curriculum Units The curriculum units C3 has developed for organizations such as the National Dairy Council and the Field Museum incorporate all of our pedagogical, subject-matter, and grade-level expertise. They engage students in more lengthy investigations and experiences of themes, topics, or concepts to meet specific objectives. Like all of the instructional materials C3 develops, they are tied to national or state standards and are designed to be practical for classroom use and engaging to students. Curriculum units can be delivered in print, electronic, or online format. Select Curriculum Units The Underground Adventure C3 collaborated with the Field Museum and MMS Education to develop an online curriculum unit exploring soil properties and biodiversity. The unit includes a number of hands-on activities modeled after scientific field work, and complements the Field Museum’s Underground Adventure exhibit. Arianna Bones and the Pyramid of Food: National Dairy Council Click to visit C3 collaborated with the National Dairy Council and MMS Education to develop a comprehensive curriculum kit that instructs students on primary nutrition concepts and the food guide pyramid. Included with this kit were classroom-ready print lesson plans, interactive games (for which C3 provided the instructional design), and original support materials such as fictional stories. This unit will be available in schools during the 2005—2006 academic year. Butterfly Curriculum, American Association for the Advancement of Science C3 developed a series of lessons on butterflies and their habitats for AAAS's website, Science NetLinks. The lessons were developed for grades K–2 and involve observation over several months. Butterfly 1: Observing the Lifecycle of a Butterfly Click to visit In this lesson, students study the life cycle of a butterfly while noting its development as it metamorphoses from a caterpillar to a butterfly. During this time, students learn about the attributes of a butterfly through both observation and comparing and contrasting. Butterfly 2: A Butterfly's Home Click to visit In this lesson, students design their own butterfly gardens to demonstrate which environmental characteristics make up a favorable butterfly habitat. Teachers have the option of planting a student-created "butterfly garden," which will afford students an opportunity to interact with butterflies in their natural environment.