JoinGuest Editorial: A Powerful Way to Learn
If our classroom instruction is to truly reflect what scientists do, it is important to put students in situations in which they are expected to ask questions about the natural world, design investigations to answer these questions, collect data, and draw conclusions based on their analysis of the data. Organizing instruction in this manner is often described as using an inquiry-oriented teaching approach. Through such a teaching approach, students will come to understand what scientists do.