Science as Inquiry
Science as Inquiry and Increasing Your Students' Science Achievement Website
Welcome to the Science as Inquiry Web site. This site supports the text Science as Inquiry and the seminar "Increasing Your Students' Science Achievement: Using the Internet, Active Learning, Project-Based and Performance Assessment Strategies.".
TOOLS OF INQUIRY
Cooperative
Learning Structures A collection
of cooperative strategies (structures) designed to increase
cooperative problem solving and inquiry.
Interactive
Teaching Structures A collection
of cooperative learning strategies (structures) that can be
integated with "direct" instruction to create an interactive
classroom environment. Or, how to make your "lectures"
interactive.
EEEPs
Exciting
Examples of Everyday Phenomena. Collection of science
activities integrating cooperative learning and inquiry as
the pedagogy for learning.
Fuzzy
Situations
Collection
of fuzzy situations for debate and discussion of
controversial science topics.
TEACHING STRATEGIES
Project
Based Science Teaching
A
collection of construction or engineering, experimental, as
well as search and find science projects. Further resources
on Project
Based Science.
Online
Classroom
All
of the links for the following activity structures presented
in the seminar: keypals, global classrooms, question and
answer services, information exchanges, on-line field trips,
network science, information searches, and social action
projects.
Web-Based
Activity Design Formats
Processes to design web-based activities.
Project
Ozone.
A website supporting an environmental science project
focusing on clean air. Additional link to a collection of
environmental science activities developed by American and
Russian teachers.
CONSTRUCTIVISM IN THE BAG: Active Learning Lessons
Biology,
Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics Lessons (online
versions)
RESOURCES
Art
of Teaching Science A new
interactive science education website (WEBLOG) for
instructors, curriculum specialists, teachers and students.
Discuss science education with colleagues.
Nicenet:
A free online management system. Put your course online
here.
Web
101
A
Collection of 101 web-based science lessons organized into
the categories of Earth science, environmental science, life
science, and physical science.
Websites
for Science Teaching
A
collection (hotlist) of sites organized into the categories
of biology, chemistry, Earth science, environmental science,
physics, science museums, and search tools.
AstroCappella
AstroCappella
is a marriage of astronomy and music, developed by
astronomers and professionally recorded by the a cappella
group The Chromatics.
Increasing
Your Students' Science Achievement on Audio
Tape. An inquiry-oriented program
available from the Bureau of Education and
Research
Hurricane
Katrina. A webquest designed to
educate and inform citizens about hurricanes and how they
impact us.
BOOKS
Science
as Inquiry. A resource book that
focuses on how to teach science as inquiry.
The
Art of Teaching Science, 2nd
Edition. A new book focusing on the artistry of teaching
emphasizing a humanistic, experiential, and constructivist
approach to teaching and learning. A full-fledged website
developed by the authors is available at The
Art of Teaching Science Companion
Site.
