WEB INQUIRY

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WEB INQUIRY

• Edee Wiziecki Noemi Waight

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Inquiry in the Science Classroom

• What is inquiry?
• Students describe, ask questions, construct
  explanations, test those explanations,
  communicate
• Identify their assumptions, use critical and
  logical thinking, consider alternative
  explanations (NRC, 1996, p. 2)
• hands-on as well as minds-on

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Inquiry Skills

• Identifying problems
• Making Predictions
• Hypothesizing
• Generating researchable questions
• Building models
• Designing and conducting investigations
• Formulating explanations
• Communicating and defending ideas

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Using the Web to Promote Inquiry Learning

• Activity The Virtual Pond
• Exploring Pond Habitats
• Looking at the pond card, how many mini habitats
  can you identify. List the mini habitats.
• Now, go ahead and look at the organisms that have
  been provided (organism cards in ziploc)
• Group your organisms according to the habitat
  where you would expect to find these.
• Give reasons for your choices
• Discuss ideas

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The Virtual Pond

• Now that you have done this, we will explore a
  virtual pond to find out about our predictions
• http//www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pondexpl
  orer.html
• Go ahead and investigate!

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Some Examples

• BugScope http//bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu
• Cornell University School of Ornithology
  http//www.birds.cornell.edu
• EPIC http//www.eotepic.org/index.php
• NASA Kids http//kids.msfc.nasa.gov
• Science Videos http//www.brainpop.com