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Inquiry-Based Instruction for the Living Environment. Leadership LSO Gary Carlin March 27, 2008 8:15am-11:45am FDA – 2 nd Floor Library. Self-Guided Learners.
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Inquiry-Based Instruction for the Living Environment Leadership LSO Gary Carlin March 27, 2008 8:15am-11:45am FDA – 2nd Floor Library
Self-Guided Learners “Proficiency in scientific reasoning would free individuals from the dominance of authoritarian teaching and empower them to derive truth independently.” - G. DeBoer
Workshop Goals • 1.Utilize visuals with templates to enhance Inquiry-based instruction. • 2. Explore visuals to address Experimental Procedures, Process Sequences, Order of Steps, Written Sequences, and Demonstration Results. • 3.Create and utilize simple Dichotomous Keys from text/visual information.
Last Session Assignment • 1. Review previous Living Environment Regents examinations for correlation of examination questions to Standard 1. • 2. Review previous Living Environment Regents examinations to confirm/add “anchor words”. • 3. Bring in samples of work (lessons, activities, laboratory exercises, etc.) that reflect Inquiry-based Learning to share with colleagues.
SHARE OUT/FDA TOUR Reflection: So Far … • What has been your greatest challenge in terms of Inquiry-based Instruction (IBI)? • How have the students responded to your attempts at Inquiry-based Instruction? • What would you change your practice to make your IBI more appropriate/successful to meet the needs of all students? • What new feelings/insights do you now have regarding Inquiry-based Instruction?
From our First Session… • Inquiry is a nonlinear variation of the scientific method. It connects science to the scientific method. • Focuses on the skills of observation, information gathering, sorting, classifying, predicting and testing. • Not only tests what students know, it presses students to put what they know to the test.
Introductory Activity Learning to Look: Finding Your Reference Point
Reference Points • 1. What immediately catches your attention in this image? Describe it in detail. • 2. Look at the image and describe the feeling(s) it elicits from you. • 3. Focus on a specific area, what are you thinking about now? • 4. Now return to the entire image, and describe something new (an observation, a feeling, a connection, etc.)
The World We Live In Let’s Take a Closer Look!
What is the Best Answer? • 1. Write down three (3) guess of what you think the object is. • 2. Rank your guesses from 1-3 (1- most probable most, 3 – least probable) • 3. Write your reason(s) for the ranking. My Guess: A Pulley System • 4. Re-Rank the guesses from 1-4 (using the Rank 2 column).
What is the Best Answer? • 1. Write down three (3) guess of what you think the object is. • 2. Rank your guesses from 1-3 (1- most probable most, 3 – least probable) • 3. Write your reason(s) for the ranking. My Guess: Bone Tissue 4. Re-Rank the guesses from 1-4
What is the Best Answer? • 1. Write down three (3) guess of what you think the object is. • 2. Rank your guesses from 1-3 (1- most probable most, 3 – least probable) • 3. Write your reason(s) for the ranking. My Guess: Spoon Mold • 4. Re-Rank the guesses from 1-4
Exchanging Ideas • 1. Quick Sketch • 2. Observation/Description • 3. Question(s)? • 4. Exchange
Zoom Out – Zoom In Viewing the World with Microscopic Vision
Zoom Out (High to Low) Sunspots viewed from a telescope and binoculars
Connecting Pictures to Questions • 1. Sketch/Observations • 2. Connecting Topic • Structure/Arrangement • Interactions, +/- • Measurement • Specific Topics • 3. Questions Related to Topic
Now Lets … Look at an Entire Process, … Sequence of Steps … or a Procedure
Rube Goldberg • (rōōb gōld΄berg) n. A comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation. • Webster’s New World Dictionary
Home Burglary Alarm • Describe how does it work? • List the steps, using letters. • Comical? • Complicated? • Laborious?
Understanding the Process • 1. List and describe the steps of the Rube Goldberg Machine. • 2. Which part of the RG machine were you not clear about – or was most difficult to figure out? • 3. Write a title for the machine that describes the function of the machine. • 4. What did you learn about the machine after the class presentation/discussion?
The LE: Titles & Headlines • The headline“Improved Soybeans Produce Healthier Vegetable Oils” accompanies an article describing how a biotechnology company controls the types of lipids (fats) present in soybeans. The improved soybeans are most likely being developed by the process of (1) natural selection (2) asexual reproduction (3) genetic engineering (4) habitat modification
1. Maintaining a Beautiful Figure • She sits down to eat in scale (A) - As weight increases, magnet (B) moves toward small steel bar (C), picking it up and tilting groove (D) - Golf ball (E) drops in ant-hill (F) - Beginner golfer (G) takes swing at ball, misses it and knocks chunk out of ant-hill, scattering ants - Anteater (H) goes after ants, moving table away from hungry lady, allowing her to preserve her beautiful figure.
2. Keep You From Forgetting to Mail Your Wife’s Letter As you walk past cobbler shop, hook (A) strikes suspended boot (B), causing it to kick football (C) through goal posts (D). Football drops into basket (E) and string (F) tilts sprinkling can, (G) causing water to soak coat tails (H). As coat shrinks, cord (I) opens door (J) of cage, allowing bird (K) to walk out on perch (L) and grab worm (M) which is attached to string (N). This pulls down window shade (O) on which is written, "YOU SAP, MAIL THAT LETTER." A simple way to avoid all this trouble is to marry a wife who can't write.
3. Safety Device for Walking on Icy Pavement • When you slip on ice, your foot kicks paddle (A), lowering finger (B), snapping turtle (C) extends neck to bite finger, opening ice tongs (D) and dropping pillow (E), thus allowing you to fall on something soft.
