4. Do inquiry based labs lead to deeper student understanding? Provided by Lisa Kramer, LD 5 Science Expert
5. “In teaching him botany, he must handle the plants and dissect the flowers for himself: in teaching him physics and chemistry, you must not be solicitous to fill him with information, but you must be careful that what he learns he knows of his own knowledge. Don’t be satisfied with telling him that a magnet attracts iron. Let him see that it does; let him feel the pull of the one upon the other for himself.” Thomas Huxley Provided by Lisa Kramer, LD 5 Science Expert
6. What is inquiry? Four level model of inquiry From Simplifying Inquiry Instruction, The Science Teacher October 2005
7. Essential Features of Classroom Inquiry and Their Variations Less Direction from Facilitator or Material------------------------------------------ More Direction from Facilitator or Material More Learner Self-Direction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Less Learner Self-Direction
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9. Reforming cookbook labs Read article section- we will count off to assign sections 1 Students take on roles 2 Mix up the steps 3 Give only the procedure 4 Student/teacher round-robin 5 Student/student round-robin 6 Data table only 7 Concept Map 8 Report results in paragraph form for replication 9 Independent variable and dependent variable 10 Only the first few steps 11 Only the problem statement
inquiry chart-hand out both inquiry cycle and chart from Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards-pg. 29
After revisit continuum
delve and dialog (in thinking about your reading make a connection to your classroom) to begin sharing of best practicesgo back to that visualization-what will you add