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The Animal Inquiry interactive is a versatile tool that can enhance student inquiry in research at the elementary level.

"Inquiry-based teaching is a pedagogical approach that invites students to explore academic content by posing, investigating, and answering questions. This approach puts students' questions at the center of the curriculum, and places just as much value on the component skills of research as it does on knowledge and understanding of content. "

Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research

Brains On! is a podcast featuring inquiry-based science explorations. Each episode poses an authentic question and an entertaining examination of the answer. Sometimes that means talking to a nutritionist or a reptile expert. Other times that means putting on a play about sound waves or singing songs about sleep. It's a science lesson for your ears!

Brains On! is a podcast featuring inquiry-based science explorations. Each episode poses an authentic question and an entertaining examination of the answer. Sometimes that means talking to a nutritionist or a reptile expert. Other times that means putting on a play about sound waves or singing songs about sleep. It's a science lesson for your ears!

Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet by Kimberly Hutmacher is a rhythmic rhyming book about animals and how they use their appendages. A book like this is especially helpful for exposing children to a variety of verbs that they may not ordinarily use. When asked to describe what feet can do, many of my lower elementary students would say: walk, run, stand, hop, or jump. After reading this book, they discover that feet can also: cling, leap, dash, roam, etc.

Using Big 6 Research Skills to find information about Animals What is the Big 6?

Free inquiry-based 60 minute learning programs!

The goal of SciGirls is to encourage girls to find a passion of science, technology, engineering and math - or STEM. Each 30-minute episode highlights scientific and engineering processes following a different set of middle school girls who design their own inquiry-based investigations with the help of scientist mentors. The mentors offer the students a glimpse of exciting STEM career possibilities. SciGirls educational materials provide gender-equitable teaching strategies and hands-on inquiries based on the concepts modeled in SciGirls' videos.

PEEP's educational outreach aims to model science inquiry skills and stimulate curiosity. Our team works with early childhood educators, public libraries, museums, community-based organizations, and families to motivate their support of preschoolers' innate curiosity and interest in exploration.

Interactive science activities for grades K-6 and additional science resources for grades 6-8

Dan Meyer teaches high school math outside of Santa Cruz, CA, and explores the intersection of math instruction, multimedia, and inquiry-based learning. He received his Masters of Arts from the University of California at Davis in 2005 and Cable in the Classroom's Leader in Learning award in 2008.