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Science 2.0: Invitation to Inquiry

The Science Teacher—December 2010

Too often, students are not engaged in authentic questioning. Dan Meyer, a math educator, explains, “Our curricula are full of pseudoproblems wrapped in pseudocontext. We ask students to grapple with problems that only sort of resemble the real world, using a problem-solving process unknown outside of textbooks.” This month’s Science 2.0 column provides some ideas to initiate inquiry in your classroom.
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