Teaching students to ask testable questions

This is a hard thing to teach! I appreciate that the authors presented the process they used to teach their students, as it provides information on problem areas to look for and ways to over... See More

This is a hard thing to teach! I appreciate that the authors presented the process they used to teach their students, as it provides information on problem areas to look for and ways to overcome the problems. This article would be useful at any grade level where teachers are introducing students to the idea of testable questions.

Teaching Elementary Students to Design Experiment

Designing and testing questions is the nature of science yet too many times students are instructed to following the directions for "cookbook" labs. Try the author's suggestion of using a mo... See More

Designing and testing questions is the nature of science yet too many times students are instructed to following the directions for "cookbook" labs. Try the author's suggestion of using a modified 4-question strategy to help students become independent thinkers capable of designing an experiment. Two simple experiments are described that you can use as a model.