ERIC Number: EJ988033
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Sep
Pages: 5
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Eight Ways to Do Inquiry
Meyer, Daniel Z.; Kubarek-Sandor, Joy; Kedvesh, James; Heitzman, Cheryl; Pan, Yaozhen; Faik, Sima
Science Teacher, v79 n6 p40-44 Sep 2012
Creating inquiry activities is inherently difficult. Asking meaningful questions requires both background knowledge on the part of the students and complexity on the part of the phenomena. Yet numerous strategies can help teachers conduct inquiry activities. In this article, the authors share a taxonomy of teaching strategies used to create inquiry activities in K-12 classrooms. In their research, the authors reviewed over 300 activities from a variety of curriculum resources and identified eight common strategies available to classroom teachers and other instructional planners.
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Creative Teaching, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science, Science Activities, Classification, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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