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Keystone Colloquium, May 9, 2002
Practical Strategies for Launching and Supporting Inquiry

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What sort of effect will this produce?
Using several strings, this group makes a guitar-like stringed instrument.
After their hands-on investigations, the teachers are presented with a modified version of the activity they just worked on, and they're challenged to discuss the differences that the modifications would have had on their investigation.
Some of the results, as shared by the groups.
This map of inquiry structure helps to remind everyone of the stages of the process.
After wrapping up the hands-on inquiry, participants broke into groups to examine video case studies and…
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
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