Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science, K-8
Elizabeth Hammerman
- Educational Consultant, Texas
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Unlock the wonder in each of your students through inquiry-based science!
Are you both fascinated and baffled by inquiry-based science? Do you want to tap the strength of inquiry-based science to help your students build deeper understandings? Do you want to use inquiry-based science to foster high-quality instruction across the educational board? This guide provides clear and simple explanations for engaging students in meaningful and hands-on, minds-on ways of understanding science.
Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science, K-8 breaks each essential into sample lessons that include sample data, discussion questions, and tools such as graphic organizers and analogies. Hammerman draws on more than 20 years experience in the fields of science instruction and professional development to address basic and complex principles related to inquiry, including:
- How to discuss data, information, models, graphics, and experiences
- How to interact with one another to strengthen knowledge and skills
- How to extend learning through guided or open-inquiry investigations and research
- How to apply new learning and the best research-based practices for improving student achievement
When you harness the immense power of inquiry-based learning, you can fully discover the inquisitive nature of each of your students!
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface: Improving Student Achievement Through Professional Development
- Rationale for Professional Development in Science
- Themes and Threads
- The Goals of Eight Essentials
- Using Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science in Study Groups and Professional Development Initiatives
- An I.D.E.A. Approach
- The Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science
Introduction: Inquiry-Based Science and the Inquiry Classroom
- Defining Inquiry-Based Science
- Inquiry as a Process for Learning
- Teaching Thinking Through Inquiry
- Teaching Scientific Habits of Mind Through Inquiry
- Guiding and Facilitating Learning Through Inquiry
- Implications for the Classroom
- Using Eight Essentials as Criteria for Assessing Curriculum & Informing Instruction
- Traditional vs. Inquiry Classroom Behaviors
1. Essential #1: Inquiry-Based Science Develops an Understanding of Basic Concepts
- Understanding Big Ideas in the Curriculum
- Standards as Concept Categories
- Using Standards to Inform Curriculum and Instruction
- Using Activities to Engage Learners and Promote Inquir
2. Essential #2: Inquiry-Based Science Develops Process and Thinking Skills
- Science Process Skills
- Complex Thinking Skills
- Activities That Develop Skills for Learning and Concept Understanding
- Guided Inquiry Activities for Upper Primary/Intermediate Level: An Introduction to Metric Measurement and the Structure of Seeds
- Student Constructed or Guided Inquiry for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Heating and Cooling Rates of Water and Land
- Guided Inquiry Activity for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Creating Climagraphs
- Using Visual Organizers to Show Connections
3. Essential #3: Inquiry-Based Science Actively Engages Students in a Learning Cycle
- Defining a Learning Cycle
- The Five E's Lesson Plan
- Guided Inquiry Lessons Using a Five E's Format
- Primary Level: The Ear and Hearing
- Intermediate Level: It's All in the Family - A Study of Heredity
- Analysis of It's All in the Family
- Classroom Applications of the Learning Cycle
4. Essential #4: Inquiry-Based Science Builds a Greater Understanding of the Ways That Science-Technology-Society (STS) are Linked
- Goals of S-T-S
- Defining S-T-S
- Technology as Computers and Other AV Equipment
- Technology as Tools for Learning
- Technology as Concept Application
- Technology as Problem-Solving and Inventions
- Technology as Tools for Learning
- Environmental Problems and Issues
- Analysis of a Case Study: Large Numbers of Elk Die in Wyoming
- Technology as a Production System
- Applying Technological Design in the Classroom
- Activities That Engage Students in Problem Solving and Technological Design
- Using Technological Design to Show Concept Understanding: Understanding Adaptation
- Building Technology and Technological Design Into the Curriculum
5. Essential #5: Inquiry-Based Science Provides Experiences Necessary to Support and Develop or Modify Interpretations of the World
- Misconceptions
- Analyzing Misconceptions Case Study
- Using Discrepant Events in the Classroom
- Mediated Learning Experiences
- Dispositions That Underlie Science
6. Essential #6: Inquiry-Based Science Enhances Reading and Writing Skills
- Integrating Reading
- Analyzing Current Events Through Articles
- Integrating Writing
- Using Science Notebooks
- Designing Science Notebooks
- Using Science Notebooks to Enhance Reading, Writing, Math, and Thinking: Comparing the Strength of Magnets
- Criteria for Scoring Notebooks
- Developing Thinking Skills Through Analysis, Creative Writing, and Analogies
- Analogies
- Analogies in Science
7. Essential #7: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Diversity of Strategies for Learning
- Analyzing Learning
- Methods, Strategies, and Best Practices
- The Creative Use of Strategies
8. Essential #8: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Variety of Ways for Students to Show What They Know and Are Able to Do
- Fundamentals of Assessment
- Multiple and Varied Assessment
9. Using Eight Essentials to Enhance Learning
- Eight-Point Lessons
- Using the Eight Essentials to Analyze Curriculum Materials
Resource
- Strategies for Instruction or Assessment Linked to Multiple Intelligences
References
References
Index
Index
Description
Unlock the wonder in each of your students through inquiry-based science!
Are you both fascinated and baffled by inquiry-based science? Do you want to tap the strength of inquiry-based science to help your students build deeper understandings? Do you want to use inquiry-based science to foster high-quality instruction across the educational board? This guide provides clear and simple explanations for engaging students in meaningful and hands-on, minds-on ways of understanding science.
Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science, K-8 breaks each essential into sample lessons that include sample data, discussion questions, and tools such as graphic organizers and analogies. Hammerman draws on more than 20 years experience in the fields of science instruction and professional development to address basic and complex principles related to inquiry, including:
- How to discuss data, information, models, graphics, and experiences
- How to interact with one another to strengthen knowledge and skills
- How to extend learning through guided or open-inquiry investigations and research
- How to apply new learning and the best research-based practices for improving student achievement
When you harness the immense power of inquiry-based learning, you can fully discover the inquisitive nature of each of your students!
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface: Improving Student Achievement Through Professional Development
- Rationale for Professional Development in Science
- Themes and Threads
- The Goals of Eight Essentials
- Using Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science in Study Groups and Professional Development Initiatives
- An I.D.E.A. Approach
- The Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science
Introduction: Inquiry-Based Science and the Inquiry Classroom
- Defining Inquiry-Based Science
- Inquiry as a Process for Learning
- Teaching Thinking Through Inquiry
- Teaching Scientific Habits of Mind Through Inquiry
- Guiding and Facilitating Learning Through Inquiry
- Implications for the Classroom
- Using Eight Essentials as Criteria for Assessing Curriculum & Informing Instruction
- Traditional vs. Inquiry Classroom Behaviors
1. Essential #1: Inquiry-Based Science Develops an Understanding of Basic Concepts
- Understanding Big Ideas in the Curriculum
- Standards as Concept Categories
- Using Standards to Inform Curriculum and Instruction
- Using Activities to Engage Learners and Promote Inquir
2. Essential #2: Inquiry-Based Science Develops Process and Thinking Skills
- Science Process Skills
- Complex Thinking Skills
- Activities That Develop Skills for Learning and Concept Understanding
- Guided Inquiry Activities for Upper Primary/Intermediate Level: An Introduction to Metric Measurement and the Structure of Seeds
- Student Constructed or Guided Inquiry for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Heating and Cooling Rates of Water and Land
- Guided Inquiry Activity for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Creating Climagraphs
- Using Visual Organizers to Show Connections
3. Essential #3: Inquiry-Based Science Actively Engages Students in a Learning Cycle
- Defining a Learning Cycle
- The Five E's Lesson Plan
- Guided Inquiry Lessons Using a Five E's Format
- Primary Level: The Ear and Hearing
- Intermediate Level: It's All in the Family - A Study of Heredity
- Analysis of It's All in the Family
- Classroom Applications of the Learning Cycle
4. Essential #4: Inquiry-Based Science Builds a Greater Understanding of the Ways That Science-Technology-Society (STS) are Linked
- Goals of S-T-S
- Defining S-T-S
- Technology as Computers and Other AV Equipment
- Technology as Tools for Learning
- Technology as Concept Application
- Technology as Problem-Solving and Inventions
- Technology as Tools for Learning
- Environmental Problems and Issues
- Analysis of a Case Study: Large Numbers of Elk Die in Wyoming
- Technology as a Production System
- Applying Technological Design in the Classroom
- Activities That Engage Students in Problem Solving and Technological Design
- Using Technological Design to Show Concept Understanding: Understanding Adaptation
- Building Technology and Technological Design Into the Curriculum
5. Essential #5: Inquiry-Based Science Provides Experiences Necessary to Support and Develop or Modify Interpretations of the World
- Misconceptions
- Analyzing Misconceptions Case Study
- Using Discrepant Events in the Classroom
- Mediated Learning Experiences
- Dispositions That Underlie Science
6. Essential #6: Inquiry-Based Science Enhances Reading and Writing Skills
- Integrating Reading
- Analyzing Current Events Through Articles
- Integrating Writing
- Using Science Notebooks
- Designing Science Notebooks
- Using Science Notebooks to Enhance Reading, Writing, Math, and Thinking: Comparing the Strength of Magnets
- Criteria for Scoring Notebooks
- Developing Thinking Skills Through Analysis, Creative Writing, and Analogies
- Analogies
- Analogies in Science
7. Essential #7: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Diversity of Strategies for Learning
- Analyzing Learning
- Methods, Strategies, and Best Practices
- The Creative Use of Strategies
8. Essential #8: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Variety of Ways for Students to Show What They Know and Are Able to Do
- Fundamentals of Assessment
- Multiple and Varied Assessment
9. Using Eight Essentials to Enhance Learning
- Eight-Point Lessons
- Using the Eight Essentials to Analyze Curriculum Materials
Resource
- Strategies for Instruction or Assessment Linked to Multiple Intelligences
References
References
Index
Index
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July 2005 | 184 pages | Corwin
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Unlock the wonder in each of your students through inquiry-based science!
Are you both fascinated and baffled by inquiry-based science? Do you want to tap the strength of inquiry-based science to help your students build deeper understandings? Do you want to use inquiry-based science to foster high-quality instruction across the educational board? This guide provides clear and simple explanations for engaging students in meaningful and hands-on, minds-on ways of understanding science.
Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science, K-8 breaks each essential into sample lessons that include sample data, discussion questions, and tools such as graphic organizers and analogies. Hammerman draws on more than 20 years experience in the fields of science instruction and professional development to address basic and complex principles related to inquiry, including:
- How to discuss data, information, models, graphics, and experiences
- How to interact with one another to strengthen knowledge and skills
- How to extend learning through guided or open-inquiry investigations and research
- How to apply new learning and the best research-based practices for improving student achievement
When you harness the immense power of inquiry-based learning, you can fully discover the inquisitive nature of each of your students!
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface: Improving Student Achievement Through Professional Development
- Rationale for Professional Development in Science
- Themes and Threads
- The Goals of Eight Essentials
- Using Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science in Study Groups and Professional Development Initiatives
- An I.D.E.A. Approach
- The Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science
- Introduction: Inquiry-Based Science and the Inquiry Classroom
- Defining Inquiry-Based Science
- Inquiry as a Process for Learning
- Teaching Thinking Through Inquiry
- Teaching Scientific Habits of Mind Through Inquiry
- Guiding and Facilitating Learning Through Inquiry
- Implications for the Classroom
- Using Eight Essentials as Criteria for Assessing Curriculum & Informing Instruction
- Traditional vs. Inquiry Classroom Behaviors
- 1. Essential #1: Inquiry-Based Science Develops an Understanding of Basic Concepts
- Understanding Big Ideas in the Curriculum
- Standards as Concept Categories
- Using Standards to Inform Curriculum and Instruction
- Using Activities to Engage Learners and Promote Inquir
- 2. Essential #2: Inquiry-Based Science Develops Process and Thinking Skills
- Science Process Skills
- Complex Thinking Skills
- Activities That Develop Skills for Learning and Concept Understanding
- Guided Inquiry Activities for Upper Primary/Intermediate Level: An Introduction to Metric Measurement and the Structure of Seeds
- Student Constructed or Guided Inquiry for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Heating and Cooling Rates of Water and Land
- Guided Inquiry Activity for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Creating Climagraphs
- Using Visual Organizers to Show Connections
- 3. Essential #3: Inquiry-Based Science Actively Engages Students in a Learning Cycle
- Defining a Learning Cycle
- The Five E's Lesson Plan
- Guided Inquiry Lessons Using a Five E's Format
- Primary Level: The Ear and Hearing
- Intermediate Level: It's All in the Family - A Study of Heredity
- Analysis of It's All in the Family
- Classroom Applications of the Learning Cycle
- 4. Essential #4: Inquiry-Based Science Builds a Greater Understanding of the Ways That Science-Technology-Society (STS) are Linked
- Goals of S-T-S
- Defining S-T-S
- Technology as Computers and Other AV Equipment
- Technology as Tools for Learning
- Technology as Concept Application
- Technology as Problem-Solving and Inventions
- Technology as Tools for Learning
- Environmental Problems and Issues
- Analysis of a Case Study: Large Numbers of Elk Die in Wyoming
- Technology as a Production System
- Applying Technological Design in the Classroom
- Activities That Engage Students in Problem Solving and Technological Design
- Using Technological Design to Show Concept Understanding: Understanding Adaptation
- Building Technology and Technological Design Into the Curriculum
- 5. Essential #5: Inquiry-Based Science Provides Experiences Necessary to Support and Develop or Modify Interpretations of the World
- Misconceptions
- Analyzing Misconceptions Case Study
- Using Discrepant Events in the Classroom
- Mediated Learning Experiences
- Dispositions That Underlie Science
- 6. Essential #6: Inquiry-Based Science Enhances Reading and Writing Skills
- Integrating Reading
- Analyzing Current Events Through Articles
- Integrating Writing
- Using Science Notebooks
- Designing Science Notebooks
- Using Science Notebooks to Enhance Reading, Writing, Math, and Thinking: Comparing the Strength of Magnets
- Criteria for Scoring Notebooks
- Developing Thinking Skills Through Analysis, Creative Writing, and Analogies
- Analogies
- Analogies in Science
- 7. Essential #7: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Diversity of Strategies for Learning
- Analyzing Learning
- Methods, Strategies, and Best Practices
- The Creative Use of Strategies
- 8. Essential #8: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Variety of Ways for Students to Show What They Know and Are Able to Do
- Fundamentals of Assessment
- Multiple and Varied Assessment
- 9. Using Eight Essentials to Enhance Learning
- Eight-Point Lessons
- Using the Eight Essentials to Analyze Curriculum Materials
- Resource
- Strategies for Instruction or Assessment Linked to Multiple Intelligences
- References
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
"Eight Essentials of Inquiry -Based Science offers a crisp rationale and approach to the teaching of science that is meaningful, authentic, and exciting for students. Hammerman brings the complexities of science pedagogy and research to life and presents important ideas about teaching and learning in a manner that is easy to digest and apply. This is a timely book for it provides an answer to the many demands placed on teachers and students."
Diann Musial, Distinguished Teaching Professor, College of Education, Northern Illinois University
"A user-friendly resource book full of useful tips for tapping into students' natural inquisitiveness. Includes sample activities, probing discussion questions, and graphic organizer templates for recording data and tracking student assessment."
Professionally Speaking, September 2006, Ontario College of Teachers