JoinAll Inquiry resources
Journal Article
By Bill Lindquist, Bryna Wiens, Robyn Char, Leah Mark, and Joshua Baumgartner
Blog Post
What Does It Really Take to Get High School Students to Make Their Ideas Visible?
Asking high school students to reveal what they really think about what causes a natural or designed phenomenon is risky business. Risky in that it re...
By Angie Berk, Jen MacColl and Kristen Moorhead
Blog Post
Going Public: Revealing Student Thinking in Science by Missy Holzer
Our classrooms are dynamic places where young learners gather to figure out the natural world. How can we be sure they are all making sense of the phe...
By Kate Falk
Blog Post
Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller
As the assistant director of science for Mastery Charter Schools I have had the pleasure of working with Dana McCusker and seeing her excellent teachi...
By Kate Falk
Blog Post
How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by ...
By Holly Hereau
Journal Article
A Lesson in Geospatial Inquiry
By Eric Nolan, Brooke A. Whitworth, and Lori Rubino-Hare
NSTA Press Book
It's Still Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy, K–5
It’s Still Debatable! encourages scientific literacy by showing you how to teach the content and thinking skills K–5 students need to explore real...
By Sami Kahn
Blog Post
Arguing From Evidence to Discover the ‘Why’
In my science classroom, students look at evidence all the time. Sometimes it is in photos or videos; sometimes in charts and graphs; and sometimes we...
By Rebecca Schumacher
Blog Post
Linking Science and Engineering Through Good Questions
Engineering design projects are a wonderful opportunity for students to develop science disciplinary core ideas (DCIs). (As many of you know, with the...
By Greg Bartus
Journal Article
Regardless of the setting in which learning takes place, identifying the goals and intended outcomes of an educational experience, then measuring ho...
By Sarah Cohn