A Quest to Improve

A Quest to Improve is a great article covering how students can develop investigable questions and show them how powerful questions can be. The article talks about how teachers can help stud... See More

A Quest to Improve is a great article covering how students can develop investigable questions and show them how powerful questions can be. The article talks about how teachers can help students generate these investigable questions. Teachers can help by demonstrating the value they have on students' questions, provide opportunities to explore, model asking investigable questions and providing examples, and providing practice for students to identify and refine questions. Overall great article to help teachers' inquiry skills

A Quest to Improve

A Quest to Improve is a great article covering how students can develop investigable questions and show them how powerful questions can be. The article talks about how teachers can help stud... See More

A Quest to Improve is a great article covering how students can develop investigable questions and show them how powerful questions can be. The article talks about how teachers can help students generate these investigable questions. Teachers can help by demonstrating the value they have on students' questions, provide opportunities to explore, model asking investigable questions and providing examples, and providing practice for students to identify and refine questions. Overall great article to help teachers' inquiry skills

A Quest to Improve

A Quest to Improve is a great article covering how students can develop investigable questions and show them how powerful questions can be. The article talks about how teachers can help stud... See More

A Quest to Improve is a great article covering how students can develop investigable questions and show them how powerful questions can be. The article talks about how teachers can help students generate these investigable questions. Teachers can help by demonstrating the value they have on students' questions, provide opportunities to explore, model asking investigable questions and providing examples, and providing practice for students to identify and refine questions. Overall great article to help teachers' inquiry skills

The Best Question

This article talks about questions that students ask. The author describes four kinds of questions: philosophical ones, complex ones, and one that are seeking information such as facts. ... See More

This article talks about questions that students ask. The author describes four kinds of questions: philosophical ones, complex ones, and one that are seeking information such as facts. In particular research is used to focus on the complex questions and how to address these kinds of questions. The article also provides three examples of investigative questions used to help children understand what they may be looking at. Reading this article might help the educator become better at asking the right questions.

Question the Question

The author starts off with a quote from Albert Einstein that says it all..."If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes to formulate the ... See More

The author starts off with a quote from Albert Einstein that says it all..."If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes to formulate the right question because as soon as I have identified the right question I can solve the problem in less than five minutes." This article has a wealth of ideas on how to help students form questions that require thought and science to answer. It gives clear and concise directions on how to develop better questioning from students.

A Quest to Improve

A great article for ALL teachers. While looking for an activity that Early Elementary teachers could use for their science program, I found this. It was wonderful. The opening quote by Alber... See More

A great article for ALL teachers. While looking for an activity that Early Elementary teachers could use for their science program, I found this. It was wonderful. The opening quote by Albert Einstein spells out the purpose of this article-how to find the "right question" to investigate. It gives a multitude of possible question-stems, when & where to use them, and some ideas for topics that students can investigate. This article is written in such a manner that the teacher will be able to immediately think of a unit of study that they would like to purse in their classroom. It then has examples of how to help their student formulate great, questions that can be investigated. This article helps the teacher start the whole process of investigations in the classroom (or outside) off correctly.

Questioning is a Critical Skill

How do help students understand how important their questions are? How do we assist students in idntifying the diffference between a research and an investigable question? This article h... See More

How do help students understand how important their questions are? How do we assist students in idntifying the diffference between a research and an investigable question? This article helps us the teacher and then the student understand the differences. the author also models the different type of question and talks about providing students the opportunity and the environment to ask questions. This article is baed on the work of Wynne Harlen, a highly respected science educator. In fact, if you like the article, you will certainly want to read wynne's book "Primary Science" I was lucky enough to do some work with Wynne Harlen in San Franscisco at the Exploratorium.

Creating a Culture of Inquiry

I liked the steps outlined in this article to help teachers support students in understanding what is an investigable question. There are several strategies a teacher could use to help stud... See More

I liked the steps outlined in this article to help teachers support students in understanding what is an investigable question. There are several strategies a teacher could use to help students understand how to take the questions they ask and turn them into investigable questions. This first step in creating a classroom where questions are valued leads to a richer science inquiry experience for students.

The Investigable Question

Having students be able to formulate investigable questions is so important in inquiry. The author provides many valuable hints and examples to help teachers guide students to refine and ev... See More

Having students be able to formulate investigable questions is so important in inquiry. The author provides many valuable hints and examples to help teachers guide students to refine and evaluate questions to be good investigable questions. The author includes the valuing all student questions, suggestions on how to handle students’ questions, types of investigable questions and a checklist for evaluating questions. This is a very good article to enhance teachers’ inquiry teaching skills.