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Teaching Inquiry

Teaching Inquiry. The BSCS 5E Model. What is Inquiry?. Inquiry is a general term for the processes by which scientific knowledge is developed.

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Teaching Inquiry

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  1. Teaching Inquiry • The BSCS 5E Model

  2. What is Inquiry? • Inquiry is a general term for the processes by which scientific knowledge is developed. • Scientific inquiry encompasses the processes in which scientists ask questions, make predictions, carry out investigations, gather evidence, and propose explanations.

  3. School Inquiry • Inquiry in science education is a thinking skill that can extend beyond science class. • Students learn to ask questions, gather appropriate evidence, and use evidence to support their conclusions. • School inquiry is usually much less sophisticated than authentic scientific inquiry.

  4. Types of Scientific Studies • Experiments: testing hypotheses by manipulating variables. • Correlational studies: finding connections between different phenomena. • Descriptive studies: discovering, describing, classifying, and categorizing.

  5. Myths About Inquiry • “Inquiry is doing hands-on science.” • “If students do inquiry, they will understand inquiry.” • “Inquiry is using the scientific method.” • “Inquiry is unstructured and chaotic.” • “Inquiry is asking students questions.”

  6. Inquiry Continuum • (Handout) • “Cookbook” labs tend to fall at the “Teacher Guided” end of the continuum. • Independent projects arising from a student question fall at the “Learner Self-Directed” end of the continuum. • Between the two ends falls guided inquiry.

  7. Essential Features of Inquiry

  8. Engagement • Students must first be engaged by a driving question about a natural event.

  9. Evidence • Students give priority to evidence rather than opinion or belief when addressing scientifically-oriented questions.

  10. Explanations • Students use evidence to develop explanations about natural events in order to answer their questions.

  11. Evaluate • Students evaluate their explanations by considering alternative explanations, and consider which is best supported by evidence.

  12. Communicate • Students clearly communicate their findings to others and justify their explanations using evidence.

  13. The 5E Model

  14. BSCS 5E Model • (Handout) • The 5E Instructional Model of Inquiry was developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) • The model is grounded in constructivism. • The 5E model is one model, but not the only model, for teaching inquiry.

  15. Engage • An introductory stage where the teacher captures the students’ interest. This may involve: • demonstration • reading aloud • assessing prior knowledge • asking questions

  16. Explore • Students carry out cooperative activities to explore the topic and to develop a common set of concrete knowledge.

  17. Explain • Students develop their own explanations and listen to each other’s. The teacher clarifies concepts, introduces vocabulary, and may correct misconceptions.

  18. Elaborate • Students carry out further activities to deepen their knowledge, answer new questions, or confront misconceptions.

  19. Evaluate • The teacher evaluates student learning of concepts and skills. • Evaluation may lead into a new 5E cycle of learning to expand on or correct concepts.

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