Web Inquiry Tech

inquiry allows students not only to consider thoughtful questions, but to use Web quests and electronic scrapbooks as they research their topic”

Questions:

Procedures

Data Investigation:

Analysis:

Findings

open-ended to the point of being defined and solved completely within learners’ interests and efforts.

How can Internet resources be effectively used in the classroom?”

Promoting higher levels of inquiry in the classroom requires that less specific guidance be given to students.

Social studies teachers might use a WIP to help students use primary source materials to determine what life was like for a southern family during the Civil War (Mason & Carter, 1999).

science teacher might use a WIP to help students use historical rainfall data to determine whether or not El Niño had an affect on their local weather during the winter of 1997-98 (Bell, Niess, & Bell, 2001). WIPs created from these examples are available at http://edweb.sdsu.edu/wip.

WIPs are intended to be used as inquiry roadmaps for teachers desiring to promote higher levels of student-centered inquiry, specifically by leveraging uninterpreted online data to answer inquiry-oriented questions.

Open Inquiry

define their own procedures for answering these questions

teachers scaffold this process