How can teaching and learning through Inquiry be presented as a 1-hour workshop?
Megan Sapp
(mrsapp@uiuc.edu)
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ASK
Subject Areas
Grade Levels
| Undergraduate, Continuing |
Unit Keywords
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Inquiry, teaching, learning, workshops, collaboration, classroom applications, government information gathering, book discussion |
Rationale of the Unit
| This unit will present a structure for a one hour presentation of the the Inquiry method and the Inquiry page. (First used for the Illinois Science Teacher's Association Conference in Peoria, IL on 10/12/01) |
Background and Resources
BACKGROUND
What is Inquiry? It's an activity in which the learner extracts meaning from experience. It is manifested in a variety of curricular and instructional approaches, which can be roughly grouped according to the aspects of the inquiry cycle they emphasize:
- Ask:
- Observe phenomena in the real world
- Describe phenomena, or
- Observe phenomena in the real world
- Describe phenomena
Investigate: - Select appropriate method of investigation: observation, interview, survey, experiment, literature survey, search of existing data, mathematical analysis, etc.
- Choose measurement tools & conventions
- Design sampling & control procedures (deal with variability)
- Apply measurement procedures
- Collect & record data
Create: - Explore & describe data
- Analyze data
- Relate models to real data
- Interpret relationships in data
- Revise a model on the basis of new evidence
- Draw conclusions
Discuss: - Explain ideas
- Formulate arguments for conclusions supported by data
- Publish
Reflect: - Reflect
- Ask new questions
- Formulate new lines of thought/inquiry based on conclusions
A slide show by Chip Bruce can give you background on the Inquiry Page, its purpose and history.
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Activities and Open-ended problems
Materials List
IP Brochures
Paper-Format IP Units
*Email Sign-up Sheet (follow up required)
*Computer and Projector,or
*Transparencies of IP and Timeline
*=Optional
Session Layout
- 5 min
- Introductions
- Explanation of Inquiry Philosophy
- 30 min
- Show sample Inquiry Units
http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/u11092.html
- Create Inquiry Units on paper or on line
- Form groups by
- age group taught by the audience, or by
- field or topic of interest to audience
- 15 min
- Discuss/Critique Inquiry Units/IP
- Example questions to facilitate discussion
- How could you see this tool being useful?
- How did the creation of the units on paper go?
- How could the Inquiry Method or Inquiry Page be incorporated into a unit or project someone in the audience is currently doing?
- 5 min
- Use of the IP as a digital resource
- What's next?
- Pass out Next Steps hand-out
- Encourage joining the Inquiry Page website
- Encourage using existing units for lesson plans, etc.
- Encourage comments on existing units
- 5 min
- Workshop Evaluation
- Pass out Workshop Evaluation Sheet
- What did you think of the Inquiry Page?
- How was this workshop
- How do you see yourself using the Inquiry Page?
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Dialogues, Discussions, and Presentations
Post Mortem
What actually happened
- 20 min
- Introductions
- Explanation of Inquiry Philosophy
- 5 min
- Show sample Inquiry Units
http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/u11092.html
- 35 min
- Discuss/Critique Inquiry Units/IP
- Answer Questions about the IP
- What's next?
- Pass out Next Steps hand-out
- Encourage joining the Inquiry Page website
- Encourage using existing units for lesson plans, etc.
- Encourage comments on existing units
- 5 min
- Workshop Evaluation
- Encourage filling out Workshop Evaluation Sheet
Workshop Leaders
How did it go? Was there any specific example, plan, way of explaining a concept that was particularly effective? Was there anything that clearly needed work?
Workshop Evaluation Sheets
What were the results of the workshop evaluations? Any particularly helpful comments or criticisms? |
Credits & Acknowledgements
| Mihye Won, Jeni Weidenbenner |
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