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Inquiring Minds: How to Unlock Teacher Fears and Let Students Learn and Teach Themselves.

Inquiring Minds: How to Unlock Teacher Fears and Let Students Learn and Teach Themselves. Da wn Monson Nancy Beckman South Hills Middle School – 7 th Grade Science. Questions. What are they? How do they look in your class? What is keeping you from doing them?

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Inquiring Minds: How to Unlock Teacher Fears and Let Students Learn and Teach Themselves.

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  1. Inquiring Minds: How to Unlock Teacher Fears and Let Students Learn and Teach Themselves. Dawn Monson Nancy Beckman South Hills Middle School – 7th Grade Science

  2. Questions • What are they? How do they look in your class? • What is keeping you from doing them? • What is the big deal about Inquiry Activities????

  3. Pros and Cons • Pros • Find misconceptions • Find level of understanding • Applies knowledge so student can use it • Develops problem solving skills • Cons • Time!! • Scary!! • Can they do it? • What if they do it wrong? Is it worth it?

  4. Inquiry Activities • Our definition: Students’ are given a problem and using their knowledge and skill base, they solve the problem using the scientific method. • Open-inquiry/Problem Solving Lesson/ Critical Thinking • Safe Environment to Fail, Fail, Learn and Succeed. • The fact is there are a range of levels of inquiry activities. A Hierarchy of Inquiry.

  5. Fear Factor • Level 0: Not Inquiry= no fear, easy, fast, done correctly the first time, sometimes necessary to teach skills of science • Level 1: Introductory Inquiry = little to no fear, students are given a problem but there is only one way to solve it, like training wheels – sometimes necessary • Level 2: Partial Inquiry = minimal fear, students are given a problem and there are 3-4 different ways to solve the problem • Level 3: Complete Inquiry = Paralyzing fear, students are given a problem and there are an infinite number of ways to solve it

  6. Level 0: Not Inquiry • Rainbow Lab • Metal Block Lab What labs/activities do you do that fit in this level?

  7. Level 1: Introductory Inquiry • Skull Lab • Cell Detective • Nuts and Bolts of Matter • Scientific Method Test

  8. Level 1: Introductory Inquiry • What labs/activities do you do that fit in this level?

  9. Level 2: Partial Inquiry • Flip your lid • Changing the rate of Diffusion • Classification Mad Scientist Lab

  10. Level 2: Partial Inquiry • What labs/activities do you do that fit in this level?

  11. Level 3: Complete Inquiry • Changing the rate of Osmosis (beginning) • Weird Places Project (beginning) • Changing density of Bread (beginning) • Does the wind exist? • Earth Density Mad Scientist Lab • Density of a Gas Lab (advanced)

  12. Ironically • Easier and better • Cons • Time!! • Scary!! • Can they do it? • What if they do it wrong? Your students can do more than you think they can, just give them the chance.

  13. What Inquiry activities do you have? What topics do you have a hard time making inquiry?

  14. Where to get our labs/activities: • http://msbeckman7thgradescience.wikispaces.com • http://dawnmonson.wikispaces.com • Under the “USTA Inquiry Labs” tab

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