Inquiry

ACTIVITIES:

Classroom Activities from the BLM (excellent inquiry lessons).

Hands-On Activities for Teaching Biology

EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN DELAWARE VALLEY AREA:

Portal Webpage on Inquiry-Based Education

Partnership for the Delaware Estuary

Stroud Water Research Center & Leaf Pack Network

TECHNICAL TOOLS

In the model of open-inquiry, let me pose the following questions to you:

• What does inquiry mean to you?
• How have you or how would you like to use inquiry-based education in your classroom?
  
• What other classroom issues, stratagies or pedogogy are you interested in?
  

Some other thoughts on inquiry in science and beyond.

This page is under construction.

Trajectory of Seminar/The Story

Assumptions:

Using your Personal Blogs on Serendip:

Four key themes emerge out of the work around The Process of Education (1960: 11-16):

The role of structure in learning and how it may be made central in teaching. The approach taken should be a practical one. 'The teaching and learning of structure, rather than simply the mastery of facts and techniques, is at the center of the classic problem of transfer... If earlier learning is to render later learning easier, it must do so by providing a general picture in terms of which the relations between things encountered earlier and later are made as clear as possible' (ibid.: 12).

Please submit in the comment section below your mini-grant addressing these three areas.

Thanks.

Identification: Please give your Name & Name of School where you work or where you intend to use the grant money.

Specific Aim / Goal: A few sentences on the educational goal / outcome for your students and how this is made possible by equipment/supplies puchased with mini-grant.

Proposal: Brief description of how you plan to use the equipment in your classroom to reach your educational goal.

Equipment: Description of the equipment you plan to purchase.

Anne Dalke
July 31, 2008