Teaching Inquiry: Can You Walk the Walk?
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Teaching Inquiry:Can You Walk the Walk?
Emilie DrobnesGoddard Space Flight Center
Wil van der VeenNew Jersey Astronomy Center for Education
How Students Learn
Principle #1: Engage Prior Understandings
Principle #2: The Essential Role of Factual Knowledge and Conceptual Frameworks in Understanding
Principle #3: The Importance of Self-Monitoring
From: How Students Learn (NRC, 2005)
Principle #3The Importance of Self-Monitoring
Read the following passage from a literary critic, and pay attention to the strategies you use to comprehend:
If a serious literary critic were to write a favorable, full-length review of How Could I Tell Mother She Frightened My Boyfriends Away, Grace Plumbuster’s new story, his startled readers would assume that he had gone mad, or that Grace Plumbuster was his editor’s wife.
(SOURCE: Whimbey and Whimbey (1975, p. 42).
Learning Cycles
FERAFocus – Explore – Reflect - Apply
From: Science for All Children (NSRC, 1996)
OPERAOpen – Prior – Experience – Reflect - Apply
From: What are the Similarities Between Scientific Research and Science Education Reform (Morrow, 2005)
Sundials
Students observe the patterns of day and night andthe movements of the shadows of objects on theEarth during the course of a day.
1. How would you explore students’ ideas and preconceived notions?
2. How would you carry out the experiment?
3. How would you help students reflect on the experiment?
4. How would you help students apply their new understandings?
Contact Information
Emilie Drobnes
Wil van der Veen
http://sdoepo.gsfc.nasa.gov/presentations/