lesson planning for inquiry based science
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Erin Denniston, M. Ed.Science Education Consultant
Ask Why,Wonder How
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Petals Around the RoseThe name of the game is Petals Around the Rose. The name of the game is important. Roll five dice and guess the score for the roll. The score will always be zero or an even number. Your mission is to work out how the score is calculated and become a Potentate of the Rose.
2 Petals Around the Rose
12 Petals Around the
Rose
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Petals Around the RoseThe name of the game is Petals Around the Rose. The name of the game is important. Roll five dice and guess the score for the roll. The score will always be zero or an even number. Your mission is to work out how the score is calculated and become a Potentate of the Rose.
4 Petals Around the Rose
10 Petals Around the
Rose
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Petals Around the RoseThe name of the game is Petals Around the Rose. The name of the game is important. Roll five dice and guess the score for the roll. The score will always be zero or an even number. Your mission is to work out how the score is calculated and become a Potentate of the Rose.
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Nature of Science
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Myth-information
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How We Learn
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Let’s see how that works
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Asking Questions
• What did you want to know?
• Where could you go for answers?
• What new questions might arise?
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Science starts with questions
WONDER
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Stages of inquiry
Stage 0: Cookbook Science
Stage 2: Guided Inquiry
Stage 1: Structured Inquiry
Stage 3: Open Inquiry
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What’s that look like?
LEVEL PROBLEM PROCEDURE SOLUTION
0 none worksheet locate answers
1 teacher poses teacher provides
teacher determines
2 teacher poses student proposes
student determines
3 student poses student proposes
student determines
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What’s Inside?
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Backwards Design
• Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
• Used more for global or unit planning
• Lesson planning comes last
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Learning vs. Teaching• What do you want students to know and
understand?
• How will you know that they do?
• What learning activities will get you there?
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Essential Questions
• Have no simple “right” answer
• Provoke and sustain inquiry
• Address foundational concepts
• Raise other important questions
• Recur naturally
• Stimulate rethinking
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Project Based Learning
“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”
John Dewey(October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
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How-To
• Relevant problem
• Design Brief
• ‘Found’ materials
• Assessment
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It’s EEEEEasy
• Engage
• Explore
• Explain (not you, them)
• Extend
• Evaluate
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Let’s try something else
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Imagination
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Resources
http://www.nsta.org
http://www.grantwiggins.org/index.lasso
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More Resources
http://www.miamisci.org/ph/lpintro5e.html
http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits/science/tk_5Es.html
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And a few more
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/CTE/te/K-5/Engineering/
http://www.mos.org/educators
http://www.masstec.org/
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