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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.

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.

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 make connections with many science concepts and communicate their recommendations to officials and organizations regarding the future of artificial reefs.

Gifted students develop a deeper understanding of the science process as they learn to design their own experiments to test treatments and hypotheses like scientists.

The space station's near misses with debris are a continual issue, which provides excellent resources for scientific project and problem based learning in science.

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.

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.

Students create their sandstone as they investigate the processes of the rock cycle.