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Friday May 26, 2006

Friday May 26, 2006. Inquiry-Based Lessons in the Technology-Rich Classroom. Essential Question: How can teachers incorporate inquiry into the lesson-design process?. Inquiry-based Lessons: Objectives. Learners will understand and describe the elements of an inquiry-based lesson.

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Friday May 26, 2006

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  1. FridayMay 26, 2006

  2. Inquiry-Based Lessons in the Technology-Rich Classroom Essential Question: Howcan teachers incorporate inquiry into the lesson-design process?

  3. Inquiry-based Lessons:Objectives • Learners will understand and describe the elements of an inquiry-based lesson. • Learners will understand the principles and concepts of essential questions, higher level thinking skills and their use in inquiry-based lessons. • Learners will develop original inquiry-based lessons.

  4. BRAINSTORM ACTIVITY • WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT INQUIRY-BASED LESSONS?

  5. KWL CHART

  6. What is Inquiry-based Learning? • Inquiry teaching allows students’ questions and curiosities drive curriculum. • Inquiry teaching honors previous experience and knowledge. • Inquiry encourages children to question, conduct research for genuine reasons, and make discoveries on their own.

  7. Questions serve as the foundation for inquiry-based lessons. • The teacher designs lessons around a few well-formed essential questions.

  8. Elements of Inquiry-based Lessons • Higher Level Thinking • A Variety of Resources and Tools • Meaningful Products • Learning Communities • Changing Teacher and Student Roles • Built Around Standards

  9. The 5Es Model • Engage • Explore • Explain • Elaborate • Evaluate

  10. Engage • Capture the students’ attention • Stimulate the students’ thinking • Help students access prior knowledge

  11. ENGAGEPossible Activities • Demonstration • Show an intriguing movie clip or web cam • Reading from current media release, piece of literature, text, etc.

  12. Explore • Think • Plan • Investigate • Research • Organize

  13. EXPLOREPossible Activities • Read authentic resources to collect information • Collect information to answer open-ended question or to make a decision • Solve a problem • Create a graphic organizer • investigate

  14. EXPLAIN • Analysis of explorations • Clarify understanding • Modify understanding

  15. EXPLAINPossible Activities • Student analysis and explanation. • Supporting ideas with evidence. • Structured questioning. • Reading and discussion. • Thinking skills activities.

  16. Elaborate • Opportunity to expand • Solidify understanding of the concept • Apply to real-world situations • Problem solving

  17. ElaboratePossible Activities • Problem solving • Decision making • Experimental inquiry • Thinking skills activities comparing, classifying, etc.

  18. Evaluate • Develop a scoring guide that targets what the students must know and do. • Give scoring guide to students at the beginning of the project. • Evaluate throughout the lesson.

  19. EVALUATEPossible Activities • Involve students in development of scoring tool. • Allow students to evaluate self and others in group.

  20. Do you have HOTS?

  21. The goal of inquiry-based lessons is to help your students develop HOTS! Higher Order Thinking Skills

  22. Bloom's Taxonomy

  23. KNOWLEDGE Useful Verbs recall listdescriberelatelocatelabeldefine statename

  24. COMPREHENSION Useful Verbs explaininterpretoutlinediscussdistinguishpredictrestatetranslatecomparedescribe

  25. APPLICATION Useful Verbs solveshowuseillustrateconstructcompleteexamineclassify

  26. ANALYSIS Useful Verbs analyzedistinguishexaminecomparecontrastinvestigatecategorize identifyexplainseparateadvertise

  27. SYNTHESIS Useful Verbs createinventcomposepredictplanconstructdesignimagineproposedeviseformulate

  28. EVALUATION Useful Verbs judgeselectdecidejustifydebateverifyarguerecommendassessdiscussratedetermine defend support

  29. One of the goals for us as a group is to use the constructivist lesson plan form to aid us in developing effective inquiry-based lessons which each of us will incorporate in our classrooms.

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