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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Scaffolding an Inquiry-Based Spring Constant Activity for Differentiated Physics Instruction
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This activity gives students the opportunity to design an experiment, collect data, and solve for the spring constant of different springs. The use of low-cost materials and the inquiry-based structure makes it more…
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Using Data To Move Schools From Resignation To Results: The Power Of Collaborative Inquiry
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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…
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Science Career Ladder at the NY Hall of Science: Youth Facilitators as Agents of Inquiry
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The New York Hall of Science is New York City’s hands-on science and technology center, with more than 400 interactive exhibits exploring physics, chemistry, and biology. The Hall also creates and presents…
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Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry
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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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Integrating authentic research practices into introductory laboratory courses to prepare tomorrow’s scientists has become increasingly prevalent over the past decade. However, an incomplete understanding of the nature…
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Oh Deer! Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Inquiry-Based Lessons With English Language Learners
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Comparing Undergraduate Nature of Science Views in Traditional Versus Inquiry-Taught Science Courses
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This qualitative study compares the views about nature of science (NOS) between students enrolled in a traditional lecture and laboratory course and students in an inquiry-based class to the view of the scientists who…
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"Re-Inventing" Science Instruction: Inquiry-Based Instruction in a Fifth/Sixth-Grade Classroom
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The author's purpose in sharing her experiences in this monograph is to help other teachers who may be less confident in teaching science than they are teaching other subjects, to help them see the value in what the…
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RIP-ing Away Barriers to Science Education: Inquiry Through the Research Investigation Process
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This chapter presents the Research Investigation Process (RIP), an "inquiry" and "critical thinking" model of science education at two high schools—the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology (AAST) and…
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Two settings build the premise for this chapter and comprise the Connecting Humans and Nature through Conservation Experiences (CHANCE) program. The first setting is a summer field course in Costa Rica and the second is…
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