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Title:
| Teaching Tips: Inquiry-Based Learning |
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Description:
| These sites for teachers explain the concept of inquiry-based learning and offer arguments for why this type of learning is helpful to students. Learn how to create an inquiry-based unit and how to assess student performance. Read papers and reports on how student learning is affected. Includes handouts and links to inquiry-based lessons. There are also videos showing students engaged in an inquiry-based project. Includes a link to an eThemes Resource on cooperative learning. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| Creating Student-Centered Problem-Based Classrooms
This 19-page PDF file contains a report introduced and defines the concept of inquiry-based learning and provides tips for implementing this strategy in the classroom. Includes a chart that compares inquiry-based with traditional classrooms.
Disney Learning Partnership
This online workshop on inquiry-based learning explains the concept and includes discussions on the benefits, its development over time, and how to incorporate technology. The site also presents critical perspectives against this type of learning. Includes videos and audio files.
Foundations: Inquiry
This National Science Foundation monograph has 13 chapters about inquiry-based learning. Browse the table of contents. Chapter 11 discusses how to assess learning in an inquiry-based classroom.
Center for Inquiry Based Learning
This site offers middle-school inquiry-based learning activities for science and math classes. Click on a title to open the lesson.
YouthLearn: Inquiry-Based Learning
This site gives a brief overview of inquiry-based learning, including the advantages for using it. Don't miss the link to "The Art of Asking Good Questions."
How to Develop an Inquiry-Based Project
This site provides guidance for designing a classroom inquiry-based project. Includes graphics as well as links to helpful organizers that can be printed out for students to use.
Ohio Statewide Science Workshop
Use the links to find inquiry-based science activities for different grade levels. Examine these activities to see why they are inquiry-based.
Student Inquiry in the Research Process
This site explains how to create an inquiry project and includes many citations for additional reading. Use the link on the left for worksheets and overheads.
Learning with Technology Profile Tool
Complete the questionnaire to see your profile that shows indicators of engaged learning and high-performance technology.
Questions to Promote Inquiry
This is a list of 28 questions that teachers can use to promote the inquiry process.
Exploratorium: Connect: Inquiry Learning
Explore these links to read about teachers' experiences using inquiry-based learning in their classrooms.
Inquiry and the National Science Foundation Standards
This online guide is about inquiry-based learning in the science classroom. "Making the Case for Inquiry" reports on the results of research on inquiry-based learning. "Inquiry in Science and in Classrooms" discusses specific teachers and their experiences with inquiry-based learning.
University Science Students as Facilitators of High School Inquiry-Based Learning
This research paper discusses Cornell's Environmental Inquiry Program that uses university fellows to teach inquiry-based learning to teachers.
Teaching Science through Inquiry-Based and Hands-On Practices
One teacher shares her experience using inquiry-based learning in the classroom and its effects on several different students.
Inquiry-Based Learning and the Web
This paper is about using the internet to promote inquiry based learning among students. Includes tips on improving internet searching and analysis of web resources.
eMINTS: Reports from OSEDA's Evaluation Team
This site offers several different research reports on the eMINTS program and its use of inquiry-based learning in the classroom. Click on "Analysis of MAP Results" and read how the style of teaching can affect student performance.
eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Cooperative Learning Strategies
Read articles that define and explain how to use cooperative learning strategies in the classroom. Includes cooperative learning lesson plans for a variety of subjects and grade levels.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.10, 2.1, 2.3, 3.2, 4.5, 4.6, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7
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