Students are involved in an inquiry project when it is their responsibility to:
- identify the problem
- What is my task at hand?
- reflect on process
- What steps will I take?
- apply prior knowledge to a non-routine challenge
- I recognize that I've taken some of these steps before, for more conventional problems, but what do I do now?
- practice writing
- How can I convey my process to someone else so that they can read and understand what I did and why I did it?
- accommodate feedback
- How will I use the mentor's comments to improve upon my original solution?
Few websites offer the structure that invite open-ended inquiry and educational interaction that the POWs do. That's where you come in: when you find sites that you want to use in the classroom for inquiry projects, how will you present them?Visit one or two of the following sites, according to the subject areas that you have taught or will teach. Within those sites, identify an inquiry-based lesson(s) you might teach. Brainstorm and then discuss in your group two concrete steps you will do to structure the information or interactive opportunities presented on the site so that they could form an inquiry project in a classroom.
Prepare to share with people not in your group what the content of the lesson is, how the site will contribute to making this an inquiry experience for students, and what adjustments to regular class routine that you would need to make, if any, to include inquiry, interaction, and technology.
Any Subject
Humanities
- AskA+ Locator
- A database of "AskA" services designed to link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet.
Natural Sciences
- MOMA Online Projects
- Art projects that explore some of the properties and possibilities of the Web, such as interactivity, motion and sound.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- A complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
Social Sciences
- The Why Files
- An electronic exploration of the issues of science, math, and technology that lurk behind the headlines of the day, presenting those topics in a clear, entertaining and accessible manner.
- The Franklin Institute's inQuiry Attic
- Online explorations of a century's worth of scientific instruments and objects.
- Internet Mathematics Library: Lesson Plans and Activities
- Internet Mathematics Library: History
- PBS - History
- Original Web content and real-time learning adventures in ancient world, biographies, United States, war and espionage, and world history.
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