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Ecological Monitoring Provides a Thematic Foundation for Student Inquiry
The Project in Hawaii’s Intertidal (OPIHI) is a network of schools and scientist volunteers engaged in the widespread, systematic monitoring of Hawa...
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“If We Are Supposed to Understand Science, Shouldn’t We Be Doing It?”
The author’s teaching career, like many others, began teaching high school in a basic science classroom where the students asked this chapter’s ti...
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Inquiry: A Challenge for Changing the Teaching of Science in Connecticut
A catalyst for inquiry gaining its rightful place of importance in Connecticut public education was the State Board of Education’s 2004 adoption of ...
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Learning Science With Inquiry in the Clark County School District
In 2005, Project PASS—Proficiency And Success in Science—was funded as a Mathematics and Science Partnership by the Nevada Department of Education...
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Natural Scientists: Children in Charge
This chapter discusses how the authors refined their teaching practices to allow young children to begin to develop inquiry process skills. In previou...
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Science Is Not a Spectator Sport: Three Principles From 15 years of Project <em>Dragonfly</em>
Project Dragonfly at Miami University was founded on the premise that the most powerful way to engage children in learning is to celebrate their voice...
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Student Inquiry and Research: Developing Students’ Authentic Inquiry Skills
In the 2005 NSTA monograph Exemplary Science in Grades 9–12: Standards-Based Success Stories, the authors present and discussed student inquiry at t...
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From Wyoming to Florida, They Ask, “Why Wasn’t I Taught This Way?”
As educators recognize the power of inquiry in the classroom, the Conceptual Change Model (CCM) is gaining popularity across the country. Those who ar...
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Student Outreach Initiative: Sowing the Seeds of Future Success
This chapter features the Student Outreach Initiative project developed as a collaborative research community between USDA/Agricultural Research Servi...
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Developing Inquiry Skills Along a Teacher Professional Continuum
The setting for this chapter is Bradley University—a midsize, private, comprehensive university in a Midwestern community of approximately a quarter...
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Promoting Inquiry With Preservice Elementary Teachers Through a Science Content Course
Inquiry science teaching is effective at all levels, from elementary classes to higher education. It is important, therefore, that preservice educatio...
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Developing a Relationship With Science Through Authentic Inquiry
In this chapter, the authors first describe the theoretical framework they have developed for understanding and developing their work as teachers. The...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about systems. The probe is designed to find out whether students can recognize that...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about the digestive system. The probe is designed to find out whether students reali...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about the distribution of land, oceans, freshwater, and ice. The probe is designed t...