Inquiry Is Essential

This is a great article that talks about how to use inquiry in your classroom. This article will really help you better learn how to keep your students engaged in your lessons. By using th... See More

This is a great article that talks about how to use inquiry in your classroom. This article will really help you better learn how to keep your students engaged in your lessons. By using the inquiry approach this will better keep the attention of your students. Through this article I have learned many approaches that I cannot wait to try when I have a classroom.

Inquiry Is Essential

This is a great article that talks about how to use inquiry in your classroom. This article will really help you better learn how to keep your students engaged in your lessons. By using th... See More

This is a great article that talks about how to use inquiry in your classroom. This article will really help you better learn how to keep your students engaged in your lessons. By using the inquiry approach this will better keep the attention of your students. Through this article I have learned many approaches that I cannot wait to try when I have a classroom.

Inquiry Is Essential

This is a great article that talks about how to use inquiry in your classroom. This article will really help you better learn how to keep your students engaged in your lessons. By using th... See More

This is a great article that talks about how to use inquiry in your classroom. This article will really help you better learn how to keep your students engaged in your lessons. By using the inquiry approach this will better keep the attention of your students. Through this article I have learned many approaches that I cannot wait to try when I have a classroom.

Inquiry will engage!

This article spells out just how important inquiry is in the classroom. In today's classroom, we know our students' engagement is our priority, because without engagement, there is usually n... See More

This article spells out just how important inquiry is in the classroom. In today's classroom, we know our students' engagement is our priority, because without engagement, there is usually not much learning going on. This article is helpful because it explains why inquiry can help engage our students and make our class times together more beneficial.

Essential for Teachers!

Just like inquiry is essential in science, this article is essential for teachers! It explains the importance of making your science lessons based on questions that you give your students an... See More

Just like inquiry is essential in science, this article is essential for teachers! It explains the importance of making your science lessons based on questions that you give your students and questions that they come up with on their own. Something that I have recently learned and was reminded of was that inquiry lessons allow students to be engaged, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate what they are trying to discover. The article gives great examples of how a question should be worded so it is open-ended and researchable. The chart that is included within the article perfectly represents how much the teacher should or should not be involved in an inquiry lesson depending on what grade they are teaching. The older the students are, the less direction should be given by the teacher. However, the younger the students are, the more guidance the teacher may have to provide. I would recommend this article to anyone needing to get a better understanding of why inquiry is essential to learning.

Making Sense of Inquiry

As a special education teacher my focus has always been to develop the functional skills of my students. The ability to develop inquiry skills in my students always seemed daunting. Now this... See More

As a special education teacher my focus has always been to develop the functional skills of my students. The ability to develop inquiry skills in my students always seemed daunting. Now this article makes it easier for me to differentiate and scaffold the inquiry process. The grid on learner vs. teacher directed inquiry is very valuable.

The Name Has Changed But It Still Is Inquiry

This article is written by a very well known educator. With this said the article is a prime example of what inquiry is and how it might be seen in a classroom from simple to the ultimate i... See More

This article is written by a very well known educator. With this said the article is a prime example of what inquiry is and how it might be seen in a classroom from simple to the ultimate inquiry situation. Today, the words inquiry have been replaced in the Next Generation Science Standards with the words ‘scientific practices’ but the new words still represent what was formerly called inquiry. This is a great article for a science department in any school to use to review what teachers should be doing in the classroom during a department meeting.

Inquiry Basics

This is a great article for teachers new to inquiry or wanting to review its fundamentals. Children need to learn science not only hands-on, but also through inquiry. Teachers can use this... See More

This is a great article for teachers new to inquiry or wanting to review its fundamentals. Children need to learn science not only hands-on, but also through inquiry. Teachers can use this as a guide to know what to include in a full inquiry lesson..

Great Explanation of Inquiry

As a pre-service elementary teacher about to enter her student teaching semester, I found this article to be very informational about inquiry lessons. I especially appreciated the chart in F... See More

As a pre-service elementary teacher about to enter her student teaching semester, I found this article to be very informational about inquiry lessons. I especially appreciated the chart in Figure 1 which shows five different scenarios ranging from almost completed learner directed to completely teacher directed. I found it helpful that the article provided the five essential features of inquiry as well as how inquiry learning should look in the classroom when the students are engaged in “full inquiries” (p. 8). Overall, this article provided me with very useful information which I look forward to incorporating into lesson plans for my future elementary classrooms.

Review for Science Methods Class

This was a very interesting and insightful article. Dr. Bybee provides excellent information that teachers can use to make their classroom lessons more student oriented and less teacher dire... See More

This was a very interesting and insightful article. Dr. Bybee provides excellent information that teachers can use to make their classroom lessons more student oriented and less teacher directed. Dr. Bybee provides a schema that is an excellent tool to use while writing or revising a lesson plan.

Well done

This article was a real eye opener; it made me become more aware of what to incorporate into lesson plans. It is a good guide to help one recall what it takes to make a well rounded lesson f... See More

This article was a real eye opener; it made me become more aware of what to incorporate into lesson plans. It is a good guide to help one recall what it takes to make a well rounded lesson for students to get the most out it. This article gives reasoning and suggestions with examples to make sure we fully grasp the concept.