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Testable Questions: Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Testable Questions: Inquiring Minds Want to Know. Jeff Blacklock Margaret Hammer Midwestern State University CAST 2011 Dallas, TX November 17-19, 2011. What is Inquiry?. Inquiry empowers students to ... . become independent thinkers and life-long learners.

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Testable Questions: Inquiring Minds Want to Know

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  1. Testable Questions:Inquiring Minds Want to Know Jeff Blacklock Margaret Hammer Midwestern State University CAST 2011 Dallas, TX November 17-19, 2011

  2. What is Inquiry?

  3. Inquiry empowers students to ... become independent thinkers and life-long learners.

  4. Inquiry empowers students to ... generate questions or problems to be solved.

  5. Inquiry empowers students to ... chose a course of action and carry out the investigation.

  6. Inquiry empowers students to ... record data and draw conclusions.

  7. Two Kinds of Questions Causal Trying to understand the world. Existence Recalling factual information.

  8. What are Testable Questions?

  9. Testable questions ... ask about objects, organisms, and events in the natural world.

  10. Testable questions ... can be answered through investigations that involve experiments, observations, or surveys.

  11. Testable questions ... are answered by collecting and analyzing evidence that is measurable.

  12. Testable questions ... relate to scientific ideas rather than personal preference or moral values.

  13. Testable questions ... do not relate to the supernatural or to non-measurable phenomena.

  14. Asking Questions “Does” “How” “What if” or “I wonder” questions can be investigated.

  15. Asking Questions “Why” questions require an explanation. These need to be revised to “What” or “What if” questions to be investigated.

  16. Asking Questions Question Sort Ready for investigation Need revision Need an expert to answer

  17. Ramps and Marbles • Watch the demonstration • Each group pose testable questions • Make a hypothesis • Plan the procedure • Collect results and document • Report conclusions

  18. Exploring Moon Phases

  19. Getting Students There

  20. Additional Resource: Shadows

  21. “Although inquiry is no panacea, it is one more strategy teachers can use, at the appropriate time, to engage students in investigations and satisfy their curiosity for learning.” - Haury cited by Llewellyn

  22. “Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, let me do it and I understand.”-Chinese Proverb

  23. Testable Questions:Inquiring Minds Want to Know Jeff Blacklock phillip.blacklock@mwsu.edu Margaret Hammer margaret.hammer@mwsu.edu Midwestern State University

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