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- Title
Inquiry Takes Time.
- Authors
Baxter, Juliet; Ruzicka, Angle; Blackwell, Sharon
- Abstract
The article explores how an elementary school focused its curriculum on developing students' inquiry skills throughout an entire school year. According to the authors, students learned scientific skills such as observation, categorizing, and describing while studying specific subjects such as rocks, electricity, and life cycles. Other topics discussed in the article include meeting educational standards, using student-driven investigations, and scaffolding.
- Subjects
INQUIRY-based learning; CURRICULUM planning; SCIENTIFIC observation; ROCKS; ELECTRICITY education in elementary schools; LIFE cycles (Biology); EDUCATIONAL standards; SCAFFOLDED instruction; EDUCATION
- Publication
Science & Children, 2012, Vol 50, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Science Experiment