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I enjoyed that it was a student lead inquiry that had students engaged and making decisions. They got to decide what was important to include in their notebooks and were able to collaborate ... See More

I enjoyed that it was a student lead inquiry that had students engaged and making decisions. They got to decide what was important to include in their notebooks and were able to collaborate with peers.

Inquiry-Based Field Work

This article sums up an amazing field experience for a fifth grade classroom. The students were truly immersed in an inquiry-based experience where they were designing an investigation, lea... See More

This article sums up an amazing field experience for a fifth grade classroom. The students were truly immersed in an inquiry-based experience where they were designing an investigation, learning to use different tools to collect data, analyzed data and applied results of data collected. The authors did a nice job of explaining how they arranged the different parts of the experience and who they partnered with to provide logistical and scientific support. I like how they started the experience with a watershed model to give students a frame of reference for what they would be studying. This also achieved student buy-in for the experience. Students were in charge of designing their own data collection protocols and worked together in teams to collect and analyze information. This was a top notch experience from start to finish.