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Traveling the Inquiry Continuum: Learning Through Teacher Action Research
Book Chapter |
This chapter addresses the More Emphasis on Teaching and the Content and Inquiry Standards from the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Using the knowledge gained through the Community of Excellence in…
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Guided by the Standards: Inquiry and Assessment in Two Rural and Urban Schools
Book Chapter |
This chapter features the environment in which the authors—Teresa and Steve—work. Both are at schools near the border of Mexico, and while both have a student body of predominantly Hispanic, one is a rural school and…
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Science as Inquiry at Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute
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As a department, the science teachers at Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute share a common commitment to the ideals of teaching of science as inquiry. As individuals, they also have the…
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Erasing Lecture-Laboratory Boundaries: An Inquiry-Based Course Design
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The University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) is one of seven autonomous campuses within the University of Maine System. UMPI combines liberal arts and selected professional programs for 1,400 undergraduates and also…
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Students as Scientists: Guidelines for Teaching Science Through Disciplinary Inquiry
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Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI) provides a foundation for engaging both teachers and students in disciplinary inquiry. This chapter describes a framework of teaching and learning developed to help overcome the…
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Designing Lessons: Inquiry Approach to Science Using the SIOP Model
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Using the Sheltered Instructional Operation Protocol (SIOP) Model, the authors in this chapter discuss science inquiry, the SIOP Model, and how to blend the two for good science instruction. They finish the chapter with…
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What Is Inquiry? A Framework
for Thinking About Authentic
Scientific Practice in the Classroom
Book Chapter |
In this chapter, a framework is suggested for organizing teacher thinking about inquiry and prioritizing the wide assortment of activities teachers typically use to familiarize their students with the processes of…
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Creating Coherent Inquiry Projects to Support Students Cognition and Collaboration in Physics.
Book Chapter |
This chapter presents an inquiry template that involves three phases: (1) students observe and reflect on phenomena and make predictions about underlying mechanisms, (2) students gather data to investigate these…
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In Praise of Questions: Elevating the Role of Questions for Inquiry in Secondary School Science
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If scientific inquiry is to be part of the focus in secondary school science, teachers must develop learning situations in which question posing is essential and they must help students learn how to pose scientifically…
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Book Chapter |
The wing of a bat, the bone in your leg, the stem of a plant—all have elegant, elaborate structures. Scientists would like to understand how and why these structures developed and engineers are also concerned with…
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Promoting Inquiry With Preservice Elementary Teachers Through a Science Content Course
Book Chapter |
Inquiry science teaching is effective at all levels, from elementary classes to higher education. It is important, therefore, that preservice education majors who will be teaching science understand the differences…
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Professional Development and Teacher Learning: Using Concept Maps in Inquiry Classrooms
Book Chapter |
Two urban middle school science teachers used concept maps as a form of assessment in their inquiry-oriented teaching. Critical steps in this learning process included adapting curriculum materials to a specific school…
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Coming to See the Invisible: Assessing Understanding in an Inquiry-Focused Science Classroom
Book Chapter |
The work discussed here focused on the design of curricula that mirrored important aspects of realistic scientific practice, especially the ways in which causal models are used to account for patterns in data and the…
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Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry
Journal Article |
Students in introductory college science courses often have a simplified understanding of the scientific method. To introduce students to the complexity of the scientific process and the value of empirical observations…
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Using Data To Move Schools From Resignation To Results: The Power Of Collaborative Inquiry
Book Chapter |
In this chapter, the author studies the impact of school communities’ analysis of multiple sources of student assessment data on their instructional decisions and organizational responses. The author poses simple…