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Inquiry Is Elementary: Differing Approaches to Inquiry Within Two Elementary Schools
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Scientific inquiry is practiced and celebrated at two elementary schools within a school district of 40,000 students, located within a first ring suburb of Minneapolis. While their approach to inquiry differs somewhat,…
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Science as Inquiry at Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute
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As a department, the science teachers at Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute share a common commitment to the ideals of teaching of science as inquiry. As individuals, they also have the…
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Erasing Lecture-Laboratory Boundaries: An Inquiry-Based Course Design
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The University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) is one of seven autonomous campuses within the University of Maine System. UMPI combines liberal arts and selected professional programs for 1,400 undergraduates and also…
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Enhancing the Inquiry Experience: Authentic Research in the Classroom
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Inquiry in science classrooms involves the ability to pose a question, explore phenomena relating to the question, acquire new understandings, communicate new ideas, and relate or compare ideas with what other…
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Ecological Monitoring Provides a Thematic Foundation for Student Inquiry
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The Project in Hawaii’s Intertidal (OPIHI) is a network of schools and scientist volunteers engaged in the widespread, systematic monitoring of Hawaii’s rocky intertidal zones. OPIHI originated through a partnership…
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“If We Are Supposed to Understand Science, Shouldn’t We Be Doing It?”
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The author’s teaching career, like many others, began teaching high school in a basic science classroom where the students asked this chapter’s title question. But if students were going to be successful in inquiry-…
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Inquiry: A Challenge for Changing the Teaching of Science in Connecticut
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A catalyst for inquiry gaining its rightful place of importance in Connecticut public education was the State Board of Education’s 2004 adoption of the Core Science Curriculum Framework (CSDE 2004). The framework…
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Learning Science With Inquiry in the Clark County School District
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In 2005, Project PASS—Proficiency And Success in Science—was funded as a Mathematics and Science Partnership by the Nevada Department of Education. This three-year collaborative project was initiated with the goals of…
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Natural Scientists: Children in Charge
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This chapter discusses how the authors refined their teaching practices to allow young children to begin to develop inquiry process skills. In previous years, the process skills of science were addressed because…
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Science Is Not a Spectator Sport: Three Principles From 15 years of Project <em>Dragonfly</em>
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Project Dragonfly at Miami University was founded on the premise that the most powerful way to engage children in learning is to celebrate their voices, to invite them into the community of discovery, and to allow them…
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Student Inquiry and Research: Developing Students’ Authentic Inquiry Skills
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In the 2005 NSTA monograph Exemplary Science in Grades 9–12: Standards-Based Success Stories, the authors present and discussed student inquiry at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) (Scheppler et al.…
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From Wyoming to Florida, They Ask, “Why Wasn’t I Taught This Way?”
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As educators recognize the power of inquiry in the classroom, the Conceptual Change Model (CCM) is gaining popularity across the country. Those who are using CCM are reporting that students are highly engaged and…
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Student Outreach Initiative: Sowing the Seeds of Future Success
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This chapter features the Student Outreach Initiative project developed as a collaborative research community between USDA/Agricultural Research Service/Southern Plains Area (ARS/SPA) laboratories and their local…
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Developing Inquiry Skills Along a Teacher Professional Continuum
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The setting for this chapter is Bradley University—a midsize, private, comprehensive university in a Midwestern community of approximately a quarter million people. In the past decade, new faculty members have brought…
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Promoting Inquiry With Preservice Elementary Teachers Through a Science Content Course
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Inquiry science teaching is effective at all levels, from elementary classes to higher education. It is important, therefore, that preservice education majors who will be teaching science understand the differences…
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