Enrichment Ideas for Inquiry
Promote open inquiry with these suggestions for taking inquiry science further.
WISE: The Web-based Inquiry Science Enviroment
This project is a free online science learning environment for students in grades 4-12. In WISE, students work on inquiry projects on topics such as genetically modified foods, earthquake prediction, and the deformed frogs mystery. Students learn about and respond to contemporary scientific controversies through designing, debating, and critiquing solutions, all online.
Thinking in Outdoor Inquiry
This ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) digest contrasts the traditional view of learning characteristic of classroom instruction with the emerging "constructivist" view. This emerging view concerns how and why students learn, and it has a great deal to do with the instructional advantages of outdoor education. The discussion in this digest illustrates the sorts of activities that teachers can undertake in the outdoors to help students develop the skills and dispositions of thinking.
Leveraging Learning
This project features a collection of units broken down into grade groups (2-3, 3-5, and 5-8) that seek to help students find out themselves, the environment, and the world. The units include hands-on investigations, online inquiries, activities for reading, writing, and communicating about the science content, and embedded assignments. (The units are currently password-protected.)
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