Teacher - Learner Continuum

1. Teacher - Learner Continuum Self- Direction More Less Teacher-Directed Guided Inquiry Learner-Directed

2. Teacher - Learner Continuum Teacher-Directed (Expository Method) • Whole class • Teacher dominated • Lecture, etc. • Passive learners

3. Teacher - Learner Continuum Learner Directed (Free Discovery) • Child centered • Teacher is a facilitator • Constructivist • Little structure

4. Teacher - Learner Continuum • A mixture of methodologies • Open ended questions • Child discovers • Learning by doing • Some structure • Constructivist approach

5. Teacher - Learner Continuum Guided-Inquiry • A mixture of methodologies • Open ended questions • Child discovers • Learning by doing • Some structure • Constructivist approach

6. Inquiry Lesson Plan • Concept Map • Lesson Introduction • Lesson Objective • Standard Alignment • Strand • Big Idea • Concept • 5 E’s • Engage • Explore • Explain • Elaborate • Evaluate

7. Abilities of Scientific Inquiry All students by the end of fourth grade, should have developed the following abilities of scientific inquiry . . .

8. Abilities of Scientific Inquiry By the end of 4th Grade: • Ask a question about objects, organisms, and events in the environment. • Plan and conduct a simple investigation. • Employ simple equipment and tools to gather data and extend the senses. • Use data to construct a reasonable explanation. • Communicate investigations and explanations.

9. Understandings of Scientific Inquiry By the end of fourth grade, all students should understand that the work of scientists do includes the following . . .

10. Understandings of Scientific Inquiry • Scientific investigations involved asking and answering a question and comparing the answer with what scientists already know about the world. • Scientists use different kinds of investigations depending on the questions they are trying to answer.

11. Understandings of Scientific Inquiry • Simple instruments, such as magnifiers, thermometers, and rulers, provide more information than scientists obtain using only their senses. • Scientists develop explanations using observations (evidence) and what they already know about the world (scientific knowledge).

12. Understandings of Scientific Inquiry • Scientists make the results of their investigations public; they describe the investigations in ways that enable others to repeat the investigations. • Scientists review and ask questions about the results of other scientists work.

13. Moving Toward Inquiry: What Will It Take? • What would need to change so that all students could think and do science at this level? • What would be the positive and long-lasting consequences of an elementary science education that ensures that students understand and could conduct scientific inquiry?

14. Essentials of Inquiry • Learner engages in scientifically oriented questions. • Learner gives priority to evidence in responding to questions. • Learner formulates explanations from evidence. • Learner connects explanations to scientific knowledge. • Learner communicates and justifies explanations.

15. Essentials of Inquiry • Learner engages in scientifically oriented questions. • Center on objects, organisms, and events in the natural world. • Lead to gathering and using data to develop explanations for scientific phenomena. • Why and How questions.

16. Essentials of Inquiry 2. Learner gives priority to evidence in responding to questions. • Empirical evidence. • Accurate data from observation of phenomena. • Evidence from observation and measurements.

17. Essentials of Inquiry • Learner connects explanations to scientific knowledge. • Scientific explanations are based on reason. • Cognitive processes. • Classification • Analysis • Inference • Prediction • Critical reasoning • Logic • Building new knowledge from previous knowledge.

18. Essentials of Inquiry 4. Learner connects explanations to scientific knowledge. • Does, Are, & Can questions. • Social learning.

19. Essentials of Inquiry • Learner communicates and justifies explanations. • Results can be reproduced. • Clear articulation.