"Why" and "how" are two of my favorite questions to hear. Get your class asking how, with this cool card trick. Learn the trick by watching this clip, show it to your class, then have them get in groups and see if they can figure out how...

Many schools require that each class hold a circle time or morning meeting. This is a great time to reinforce concepts, get to know your class, and build community. Wouldn't it be great if you could teach your class a new magic trick...

"How did he do that?" What a great question to hear any child say. Watch and learn the coin fold trick to amaze your class. Bringing magic in the classroom is a wonderful way to encourage a sense of wonder, inquisitiveness, and gets...

This video shows how to do an old card trick called the Three Card Monte. Because the trick uses three cards you can use this trick to talk about odd and even numbers after completing the trick. The vocabulary can be incorporated into...

The old tear and restore napkin trick, you've seen it, I'm sure. Now the magic is yours, with this how to do magic tricks video. But, why would a teacher need to learn this trick? Think about a concrete example for the word restore,...

The erase the face card trick really is amazing. Watch and learn how to accomplish this trick, then amaze the kids in your class. A big part of teaching is trying to make learning fun and interesting, this is a quick way to add a little...

This video lesson is an example of "teaching for understanding" in lieu of providing students with formulas for determining the height of a dropped (or projected) object at any time during its fall. The concept presented here of creating...

In this curriculum conversation Anne Sturgess discusses a social studies programme at Edgecumbe College. She is joined by students who explain how Te Ao Whanui - local participation, global confidence, supported them to be autonomous...

How do you use inquiry learning to move from knowledge to understanding? Vic Hygate, from Windsor School in Christchurch, explains how she carefully focuses her planning, then uses events and provocative statements to make inquiry...

Sylvia Park's inquiry planning team support all teachers to develop authentic engaging learning for their students. In this story the planning team and students discuss what inquiry looks like in their school.

In this curriculum conversation Gay Gilbert and Lynette Townsend discuss how they have used 'the mantle of the expert' as a different approach to inquiry learning. Mantle of the Expert is a form of inquiry which uses drama to step...

Explains what inquiry-based learning is, how it begins with a question, develops into a hypothesis, then an experimental design which explores the question. Students collect and record data, which they critically analyze, and draw a...

Explains what inquiry learning is, why it is important, how it benefits students, ways teachers can facilitate it, and examples of inquiry-based activities.

Discover a history lesson with John Dewey while exploring inquiry learning.