Limited Inquiry

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  1. How might you use the inquiry continuum to reflect on your teaching practice? And how might you use it with your students? Discuss now...

Scaffolding Experimental Design

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As you watch this video...

  1. The experimental design is a critical piece of the inquiry process. How might this process reinforce skills and concepts for students?
  2. What are some challenges that students may encounter in the experimental design process?
  3. How might you anticipate those challenges?

Reflecting on Student Engagement

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As you watch this video...

  1. Reflect on the collaboration between the students. How does this create a more powerful learning experience for students?
  2. Where would you place the engagement of these students on the inquiry continuum?
  3. Watch more interaction by the students as they continue their experiment and continue to collaborate, discuss, and learn from each other in part two.

Modeling Formative Assessment

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As you watch this video...

A rubric was mentioned as a way of assessing student work. How might a rubric make the assessment process manageable? What would be the components you would include in a rubric?

Scaffolding Inquiry by Modeling

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As you watch this video...

  1. How might you take the introduction of a “cookbook lab” and have students generate a hypothesis?
  2. What is the importance of having students create a hypothesis?
  3. How has scaffolding the inquiry process made inquiry manageable for both students and the teacher?

Prepare – Beginning the Inquiry Process, Part One

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As you watch this video...

  1. In the video the teacher asked students to link the question to the characteristics of living organisms. How might linking the testable question to a standard or previously taught concept deepen students’ thinking?
  2. What do you notice about student engagement in the initial stages of the inquiry process?

Reflect - Part Two

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As you watch this video...

  1. How does using inquiry cause the students to be invested in the process?
  2. How are critical thinking skills enhanced through inquiry?

Engaging Students by Generating Questions

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As you watch this video...

  1. How you create a culture of questioning and/or observation in your classroom?
  2. How might introducing the process of inquiry through the use of science process skills, strengthen the lesson and student understanding?
  3. How can you take an existing lesson or lab and have students think about other questions to ask?

References about Process Skills:

National Association for Research for Science Teaching