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WEB INQUIRY
  • Edee Wiziecki Noemi Waight

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Inquiry in the Science Classroom
  • What is inquiry?
  • Students describe, ask questions, construct
    explanations, test those explanations,
    communicate
  • Identify their assumptions, use critical and
    logical thinking, consider alternative
    explanations (NRC, 1996, p. 2)
  • hands-on as well as minds-on

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Inquiry Skills
  • Identifying problems
  • Making Predictions
  • Hypothesizing
  • Generating researchable questions
  • Building models
  • Designing and conducting investigations
  • Formulating explanations
  • Communicating and defending ideas

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Using the Web to Promote Inquiry Learning
  • Activity The Virtual Pond
  • Exploring Pond Habitats
  • Looking at the pond card, how many mini habitats
    can you identify. List the mini habitats.
  • Now, go ahead and look at the organisms that have
    been provided (organism cards in ziploc)
  • Group your organisms according to the habitat
    where you would expect to find these.
  • Give reasons for your choices
  • Discuss ideas

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The Virtual Pond
  • Now that you have done this, we will explore a
    virtual pond to find out about our predictions
  • http//www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pondexpl
    orer.html
  • Go ahead and investigate!

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Some Examples
  • BugScope http//bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu
  • Cornell University School of Ornithology
    http//www.birds.cornell.edu
  • EPIC http//www.eotepic.org/index.php
  • NASA Kids http//kids.msfc.nasa.gov
  • Science Videos http//www.brainpop.com
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