Interdisciplinary Connections for Inquiry

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Interdisciplinary Connections for Inquiry

These sites offer some ideas for connecting science learning with endeavors in other content areas.

Roll With It: An Activity Integrating Mathematics and Science
Designed with students in grades 7-12 in mind, this activity shows how inquiry can work in a real classroom through this activity that blends science and math concepts through an activity with toy cars. After spending several minutes experimenting with rolling their cars down ramps at different heights and angles, the students decide three tests to perform on their cars.

Encouraging Mathematical Thinking
This videopaper, created by The Math Forum's Bridging Research and Practice group, presents a discussion illustrated with classroom video clips that focus on the value of discourse in encouraging students' mathematical thinking and supporting teachers' professional growth. It focuses on strategies to help students become engaged in inquiry and to take more responsibility and initiative in their learning.

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The Franklin Institute is the Demonstration Site for the Eisenhower Mid-Atlantic Consortium, providing science and math resources for teachers.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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