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| Foreword | |
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| Preface: Improving Student Achievement Through Professional Development | |
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| Rationale for Professional Development in Science | |
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| Themes and Threads | |
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| The Goals of Eight Essentials | |
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| Using Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science in Study Groups and Professional Development Initiatives | |
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| An I.D.E.A. Approach | |
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| The Eight Essentials of Inquiry-Based Science | |
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| Introduction: Inquiry-Based Science and the Inquiry Classroom | |
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| Defining Inquiry-Based Science | |
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| Inquiry as a Process for Learning | |
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| Teaching Thinking Through Inquiry | |
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| Teaching Scientific Habits of Mind Through Inquiry | |
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| Guiding and Facilitating Learning Through Inquiry | |
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| Implications for the Classroom | |
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| Using Eight Essentials as Criteria for Assessing Curriculum & Informing Instruction | |
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| Traditional vs. Inquiry Classroom Behaviors | |
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| Essential #1: Inquiry-Based Science Develops an Understanding of Basic Concepts | |
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| Understanding Big Ideas in the Curriculum | |
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| Standards as Concept Categories | |
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| Using Standards to Inform Curriculum and Instruction | |
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| Using Activities to Engage Learners and Promote Inquir | |
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| Essential #2: Inquiry-Based Science Develops Process and Thinking Skills | |
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| Science Process Skills | |
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| Complex Thinking Skills | |
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| Activities That Develop Skills for Learning and Concept Understanding | |
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| Guided Inquiry Activities for Upper Primary/Intermediate Level: An Introduction to Metric Measurement and the Structure of Seeds | |
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| Student Constructed or Guided Inquiry for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Heating and Cooling Rates of Water and Land | |
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| Guided Inquiry Activity for Intermediate/Middle School Level: Creating Climagraphs | |
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| Using Visual Organizers to Show Connections | |
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| Essential #3: Inquiry-Based Science Actively Engages Students in a Learning Cycle | |
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| Defining a Learning Cycle | |
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| The Five E's Lesson Plan | |
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| Guided Inquiry Lessons Using a Five E's Format | |
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| Primary Level: The Ear and Hearing | |
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| Intermediate Level: It's All in the Family | |
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| Analysis of It's All in the Family | |
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| Classroom Applications of the Learning Cycle | |
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| Essential #4: Inquiry-Based Science Builds a Greater Understanding of the Ways That Science-Technology-Society (STS) are Linked | |
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| Goals of S-T-S | |
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| Defining S-T-S | |
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| Technology as Computers and Other AV Equipment | |
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| Technology as Tools for Learning | |
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| Technology as Concept Application | |
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| Technology as Problem-Solving and Inventions | |
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| Technology as Tools for Learning | |
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| Environmental Problems and Issues | |
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| Analysis of a Case Study: Large Numbers of Elk Die in Wyoming | |
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| Technology as a Production System | |
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| Applying Technological Design in the Classroom | |
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| Activities That Engage Students in Problem Solving and Technological Design | |
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| Using Technological Design to Show Concept Understanding: Understanding Adaptation | |
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| Building Technology and Technological Design Into the Curriculum | |
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| Essential #5: Inquiry-Based Science Provides Experiences Necessary to Support and Develop or Modify Interpretations of the World | |
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| Misconceptions | |
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| Analyzing Misconceptions Case Study | |
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| Using Discrepant Events in the Classroom | |
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| Mediated Learning Experiences | |
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| Dispositions That Underlie Science | |
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| Essential #6: Inquiry-Based Science Enhances Reading and Writing Skills | |
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| Integrating Reading | |
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| Analyzing Current Events Through Articles | |
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| Integrating Writing | |
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| Using Science Notebooks | |
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| Designing Science Notebooks | |
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| Using Science Notebooks to Enhance Reading, Writing, Math, and Thinking: Comparing the Strength of Magnets | |
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| Criteria for Scoring Notebooks | |
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| Developing Thinking Skills Through Analysis, Creative Writing, and Analogies | |
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| Analogies | |
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| Analogies in Science | |
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| Essential #7: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Diversity of Strategies for Learning | |
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| Analyzing Learning | |
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| Methods, Strategies, and Best Practices | |
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| The Creative Use of Strategies | |
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| Essential #8: Inquiry-Based Science Allows for a Variety of Ways for Students to Show What They Know and Are Able to Do | |
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| Fundamentals of Assessment | |
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| Multiple and Varied Assessment | |
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| Using Eight Essentials to Enhance Learning | |
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| Eight-Point Lessons | |
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| Using the Eight Essentials to Analyze Curriculum Materials | |
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| Resource | |
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| Strategies for Instruction or Assessment Linked to Multiple Intelligences | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |