Group items tagged

Scientific inquiry causes students to use higher order thinking skills and learn science from a minds-on approach. Inquiry's foundation originates with John Dewey. In Dewey's book Democracy in Education (1916), he indicates that education begins with the curiosity of learners. Student curiosity and involvement in scientific inquiry moves them beyond passive learning to higher order thinking.

Teaching strategies of guided and student initiated inquiry are the basis of learning science when conducting scientific investigations.

Teaching strategies of guided and student initiated inquiry are the basis of learning science when conducting scientific investigations.

Scientific inquiry causes students to use higher order thinking skills and learn science from a minds-on approach. Inquiry's foundation originates with John Dewey. In Dewey's book Democracy in Education (1916), he indicates that education begins with the curiosity of learners.

Web-based learning centers engage students by using interactive internet resources aligned with inquiry-based hands-on classroom activities to learn science concepts.

Strategies are provided for integrating ESL learning techniques in science lesson plans, scientific inquiry processes, and science vocabulary.

Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources. Technology tools support stimulation of both inquiry-based and critical thinking skills by engaging students in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world outside their classroom. This is accomplished through learning content through the lens of video to multimedia to the internet (Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement, NCREL, 2005).

The only way to truly understand the properties of matter and changes which occur in the properties of matter is to conduct and inquiry-based investigation.

Students' interest in learning science is sometimes based on inquiry into facts that others do not know or learning facts they have no prior knowledge or experiences.

Students develop a better understanding of types of energy and energy transformations in this three part inquiry-based investigation of the potential energy of potatoes.

A hands-on approach designed to provide help students develop a better understanding of friction in both solid surfaces and fluids & which fluids include liquid and gas.

This is a hands-on, minds-on approach to provide students with a concrete model of the earth's atmosphere to visualize the gases which comprise the air they breath.

Daily summary of the stories, articles, and resources for teaching K-12 science and math.

This is a hands-on, minds-on approach to providing students with a concrete model of the earth's atmosphere to visualize the gases that comprise the atmosphere.

Students conduct an experiment to determine the ability of rocks to absorb and retain water, making connections with the concepts of porosity and permeability in rocks.

Although it is not obvious to the casual observer, rocks absorb water. You can ask your students to observe rocks all day long and they will not be able to tell if the rocks they are observing are absorbing water. However, there is an investigation which allows students to discover that rocks absorb water and how much water specific rocks absorb.

Simple demonstrations of solar to energy transformations allow students to investigate energy transformations into other types of energy. Examples include: solar to heat, solar to electrical, chemical to electrical to mechanical, mechanical to electrical to heat, etc.

One way to peak the interest of your students is to conduct an experiment using objects of things that they encounter often or even on a daily basis.