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Paul Burgmayer's picture

Lusiana, thanks for your

Lusiana, thanks for your comments on my inquiry lab. I had one additional thought relative to teaching high school students. Although I liked what you said about allowing T&S to learn from others as they write up the lab, you have to realize how fragile egos can be in 10th grade. These students (who were girls) were hard-workers but were not at all confident about their science abilities. They felt like failures when they could not get the experiment to work. As a result, I felt like I had to balance exposing them to inquiry with building up their confidence. Telling them to wait and learn it from their peers would be a tough thing for 10th graders.

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