Discussion
- What is inquiry? List what you think are the three most important characteristics of inquiry-based learning. Does inquiry look differently in science and mathematics than in other subjects?
- NSTA Position - Scientific Inquiry
- engages students
- makes students inquisitive
- engages students in something they want to know, provides a process for finding the find the answer, answer is not apparent or something they can just look up
- asks students to discover... approach lessons from the perspective of how do I help students discover this content rather than ... how do I tell them this content
- focus on student questions
- Where might you rate this activity in the spectrum of inquiry?
Explore - Explore materials, build a zipline carrier, develop questions to investigate Explain Elaborate Evaluate
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