Inquiry by Design Briefs

Journal Article | October 2007

Design briefs are plausible situations in which students are asked to solve problems given limited materials, a specific time frame, and a number of rules and limitations. It is the author’s contention that the design…

Assessing Scientific Inquiry

Journal Article | December 2007

Assessing student-led, open-ended scientific inquiry holds a unique problem for classroom teachers because of the diverse skills and content that emerge from student work. This article provides tangible strategies for…

A Template for Open Inquiry

Journal Article | October 2010

This article provides an instructional approach to helping students generate open-inquiry research questions, which the authors call the open-inquiry question template. This template was created based on their…

Negotiating the Way to Inquiry

Journal Article | June 2013

Encouraging negotiation early in the year promotes scientific communication.

Inquiry Takes Time

Journal Article | August 2012

This articles lays out a plan to develop inquiry skills in a third-grade classroom over the course of the school year.