Jane Altemen
Teaching Consultant
I can come to your school and help K-12 teachers:
- Design inquiries that Create the Need to Know
- Teach Scientific Thinking
Teaching Consultant
I can come to your school and help K-12 teachers:
- Design inquiries that Create the Need to Know
- Teach Scientific Thinking
Aims for the workshop, "Design Inquiries that Create the Need to Know":
- Emphasize that beginning a lesson by startling students with a discrepant event makes the students ask questions, and students who need to know are ready to learn.
- Give participants models to adapt and use next week that invite students to inquire.
- Give participants activities that teach students how to ask questions for their inquiry.
- Give participants strategies to use next week to see how each student's inquiry is progressing.
- Emphasize that an elementary science experience that nurtures science thinking skills will serve students well for middle school science and beyond.
- Give participants specific activities to use the next week, each designed to hone a discrete scientific thinking skill.
- Allow participants time and encouragement to play and in so doing gain confidence that these thinking skills can be accessed by all students from lower to upper elementary.
- Inspire participants to see that science is not really a special way of thinking, it is just curiosity and we can easily design inquiries for our students to invite them to observe, wonder, and find out about the marvels around them.
