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Tal, Tali; Krajcik, Joseph S.; Blumenfeld, Phyllis C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
What teaching practices foster inquiry and promote students to learn challenging subject matter in urban schools? Inquiry-based instruction and successful inquiry learning and teaching in project-based science (PBS) were described in previous studies (Brown & Campione, [1990]; Crawford, [1999]; Krajcik, Blumenfeld, Marx, Bass, & Fredricks,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Science Projects
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Rivet, Ann E.; Krajcik, Joseph S. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
A challenge for urban systemic reform initiatives in science education has been to achieve local, state, and national standards for teaching and learning. We have collaborated with teachers in the Detroit Public School System to design project-based curriculum materials that contextualize the learning of science in meaningful real-world problems,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Educational Change, Science Curriculum, National Standards