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Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: What Do Inquiry Based Lesson Plans Look Like?
Inquiry-based lesson plans are usually referred to as "facilitation plans," to help teachers remember their role as facilitator of learning, rather than fount of all wisdom. The notion also helps teachers structure lessons more loosely...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Science Is a Wonderland
This is an inquiry lesson to teach students critical thinking skills. The student will learn through discovery what inquiry skills are and how they are used. They will learn how scientists use these skills in the scientific method to do...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Math Is Functional
This lesson is a technology-based activity in which students extend graphing of linear functions to the use of spreadsheet software. After students have become proficient in constructing a table of values, students are able to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Project Nopp Drifters
Data collected by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) can be used by teachers to integrate ocean science into their science and math instruction.This site offers educational activities, curriculum materials, and lesson...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Light Microscope
This is a Microscope Internet Lab that can be used as a virtual lab for a whole class or as a make-up lab. The virtual microscope is a little more complicated than the microscope that is used in the labs but it will not be difficult to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Sweet It Is
As part of the study of Matter, the young scholars will determine the density of standard percent sugar solutions through hands on experimentation. In laboratory groups, students will graph a standardized curve of the experimental data....
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Alex: Souper Scooper
This hands-on, inquiry based lesson is an extension of the AMSTI Science Module, Solids and Liquids. Young scholars use nonstandard units to measure beans in a soup mix. Students predict how many beans will be in a scoop. Young scholars...
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Alex: Investigating and Discovering Input & Output Patterns!
This instructional activity will investigate the patterns involved with Input & Output charts. The students will explore this concept through engaging, inquiry based activities. You will be able to meet the diverse needs of all your...