Description
Science teachers aiming to foster inquiry in their classrooms will find the sixth title in the Exemplary Science monograph series, Inquiry: The Key to Exemplary Science full of helpful advice and new techniques.
The 18 chapters in this monograph illustrate various forms of inquiry, offer detailed examples of planning and execution, and provide case studies highlighting successful implementation of inquiry. Student learning, development of positive attitudes, the ability to use concepts and skills in completely new situations are all demonstrated for use in your classroom.
The National Science Education Standards call “for every student (every year) to experience the richness and excitement of knowing and understanding the natural world.” Editor Robert Yager notes that “in one sense, inquiry can be used as a synonym for science. Both include starting with questions, collecting evidence concerning the explanations offered, and arguing with others about the validity of the explanations. Science is a continuing quest for better understanding of the natural universe. This quest is inquiry!
Contents
Introduction
The Centrality of Inquiry for Teaching and
Learning Science
Robert E.Yager
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Chapter 1 Inquiry at the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA)
Ardi Kveven
Chapter 2 Natural Scientists: Children in Charge
Lauren I. Inouye and Steve Ross
Chapter 3 Science is not a Spectator Sport: Three Principles from 15 Years
of Project Dragonfly
Christ Myers, Lynne Born Myers, and Richard Hudson
Chapter 4 Student Inquiry and Research: Developing Students’ Authentic
Inquiry Skills
Judith A. Scheppler, Susan Styer, Donald Dosch, Joseph Traina,
and Christopher Kolar
Chapter 5 From Wyoming to Florida: They Ask, “Why Wasn’t I Taught
This Way?”
Joseph I. Stepans and Diane L. Schmidt
Chapter 6 Student Outreach Initiatives: “Sowing the Seeds of Future Success”
Craig Wilson
Chapter 7 Developing Inquiry Skills Along a Teacher Professional Continuum
Bob Wolffe, Kevin Finson, Kelly McConnaughay, Michelle Edgcomb
and Shari L. Britner
Chapter 8 Promoting Inquiry With Preservice Elementary Teachers Through a Science Content Course
Thomas R. Lord and Holly J. Travis
Chapter 9 Developing a Relationship With Science Through Authentic Inquiry
Paula A. Magee and Natalie S. Barman
Chapter 10 Science Projects: Successful Inquiries in 8th Grade Science
Pascale Creek Pinner
Chapter 11 Inquiry is Elementary: A Description of Differing Approaches to
Inquiry Within Two Elementary Schools Focusing on Environmental
Science and Mathematics and on Mathematics and Children’s
Engineering
Patricia C. Paulson, Linda Williams-Tuenge, Rose Wippler, Susan Roth,
and Douglas Paulson
Chapter 12 Science as Inquiry at Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and
Vocational Institute
Doug Jones, Cynthia Kaplanis, Wayne Melville, and Anthony Bartley
Chapter 13 Erasing Lecture-Laboratory Boundaries: An Inquiry-Based
Course Design
Bonnie S. Wood
Chapter 14 Ecological Monitoring Provides A Thematic Foundation for
Student Inquiry
Erin Baumgartner, Chela Zabin, Joanna Philippoff, Erin Cox,
and Matthew Knope
Chapter 15 Enhancing the Inquiry Experience: Authentic Research in the
Classroom
Karen Johnson and Michael P. Marlow
Chapter 16 “If We Are Supposed to Understand Science, Shouldn’t We Be
Doing It?”
Tina Harris
Chapter 17 Inquiry: A Challenge for Changing the Teaching of Science in
Connecticut
Holly Harrick
Chapter 18 Learning Science with Inquiry in the Clark County School District
Ellen K. Ebert, Kent J. Crippen, Cindy Kern, Rebecca Reichenbach,
and Cheryl Waldman
Postscript Inquiry Produces Changes: What We Have Learned
Robert E. Yager
Appendix 1 Less Emphasis/More Emphasis Conditions of the National Science
Education Standards
Appendix 2 Contributors List
Index