Understanding Scientific Inquiry: Inquiry Involves the Use of Critical Thinking to Understand Science - 0 views
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David Wetzel on 15 Oct 10Scientific 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.