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This lab is not inquiry-based because the teacher must explain how to calculate pressure before doing the activity, but the lab gives students a great...
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In this inquiry activity, students do not know the equation for pressure versus depth before beginning, but through guided activities they discover it...
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This is an inquiry activity in that there is no one correct answer. Each student will come up with a different solution with different levels of succe...
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This lab is not an inquiry activity. Without a motion sensor, the students cannot determine independently that the final velocity is double the averag...
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This activity is inquiry in that students cannot locate or define center of percussion before the lab. Even though it appears to students that the poi...
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In this inquiry activity, students will discover the relationship between length and pitch (frequency), tension and pitch, and mass per unit length an...
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This lab introduces students to refraction using something they can experience. They really do not understand what is going on when a pencil is put in...
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This inquiry activity will be students’ first exposure to ray diagrams. They will be using the refraction of sound to simulate the refraction of lig...
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This is the first time that students will draw technical ray diagrams (in previous experiments, they simply sketched the rays). They need a little ins...
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This inquiry activity will be used before discussing curved mirrors in class. Students will discover how curved mirrors act and how the size and the o...
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This activity is inquiry in that students do not know how colors are combined. They likely think that the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. In...
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Although this lab is not an inquiry activity, it is another exercise to help students think about light rays and ray diagrams. The students think that...
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This activity is Level 2 inquiry in that students will not know in advance that the relationship is inverse square. Although they may not get a perfec...
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In this inquiry activity, students will discover some of the rules of reflection of water waves, how waves travel around boundaries, and how waves mov...
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This lab is a Level 2 inquiry activity that should be taught after students understand acceleration but before they learn the equations for calculatin...