Fire Up the Inquiry

Journal Article | February 2011

Lose the routine, tweak your "cookbook lab," and reach a level of open inquiry with these strategies used during a unit on heat.

Rocketing into Adaptive Inquiry

Journal Article | December 2001

To ensure that each student achieves success, teachers can tailor activities with students’ strengths and weaknesses in mind using the process of adaptive inquiry. Adaptive inquiry is the product of the synergistic…

The Many Levels of Inquiry

Journal Article | September 2008

Elementary teachers often struggle with how to design and implement inquiry instruction with their students. For many, just understanding what inquiry is can be difficult—let alone designing activities that support high…

Inquiry dot Com: Web-based activities promote scientific inquiry learning

Journal Article | November 2002

Inquiry-based activities found on the Web provide opportunities for students to learn science and may be used to promote inquiry learning. The Web permits students to approach larger, more authentic scientific problems…

Inquiry in the Community: Students practice scientific inquiry by investigating local environmental issues

Journal Article | March 2005

Projects based in the community give students the opportunity to engage in investigation as scientists and apply their work to make a difference at home. In the community project described in this article, students…

Methods and Strategies: An Institute for Inquiry

Journal Article | December 2004

The programs at the Institute of Math, Science, and Technology Education at Texas Christian University at Fort Worth, Texas, provide an array of professional development programs and workshops to benefit area teachers…

Shifting to an Inquiry-Based Experience

Journal Article | June 2011

The authors provide a prescriptive, step-by-step method to convert a cookbook lab into an inquiry-based science experience.

Science Sampler: Engendering inquiry

Journal Article | August 2008

There is a tendency to underestimate the abilities of students to conduct inquiry due to both inferred and actual student restrictions in the traditional school setting. While some constraints exist for viable safety…

Injecting Inquiry Into Photosynthesis Investigations

Journal Article | August 2008

This is the story of how a typical middle school lab was transformed into an open-ended inquiry experience through a few small, but very powerful, changes. By allowing students to follow their own questions, the…

Inquiry, Science Workshop Style

Journal Article | September 2005

Few people are more curious about their worlds than young children. In many published programs, lessons revolve around set questions, with step-by-step directions provided for children to follow. This approach seems…

Eight Ways to Do Inquiry

Journal Article | August 2012

This article provides a study of over 300 inquiry activities from a variety of curriculum resources and identified eight common strategies available to classroom teachers and other instructional planners.