This study brings an anthropological perspective informed by sociolinguistic discourse analysis to examine how teachers, students, and scientists constructed ways of investigating and knowing science. The teaching and learning processes for a group of third grade students and how, in the following academic year, these same students drew upon their…

This document is a guide for teaching and learning concerning inquiry education. It identifies scientific inquiry in correlation with the National Science Education Standards and discusses the various functions and strategies for assessment. Contents include: (1) Inquiry in Science and in Classrooms; (2) Inquiry in the National Science Education…

Reports a National Science Foundation-supported project of three out-of-school'' attempts to provide science education through 1) an effort to break museum's rule of DO NOT TOUCH; 2) establishment of museums that display phenomena, not things; 3) a backyard'' biology curriculum for after-school use. (EB)

Some second thoughts about the manager's handbooks'' developed in the great curriculum projects of the early sixties, based on two years of controlled study. (Author)

Examines research in social studies education in regard to inquiry, focusing on the question Will inquiry strategies work for the disadvantaged?'' (Author/JM)

Presents lesson characteristics that describe inquiry lessons, which are designed to teach students how to learn to think for themselves and develop their own decision making powers. (RK)

Keynote address at the LIASF Annual Conference on Law Focused Education, February 25 - 27, 1972, Chicago. Goals of law education in the schools are: (1) Learning moral reasoning or ethical analysis, (2) An appreciation of the legal process, and (3) Information about the law. Methods of instruction and achievement of desired goals are discussed.…

Descriptive method proved more effective than the inquiry method in presenting concept clusters. (MB)

The mathematics laboratory is described as being not just the use of concrete teaching aids but involving a new philosophy of how children learn and the teacher's role in the facilitation of learning. (CP)

Aims of conceptual clarity of scope and aims of social studies by offering a definition of social studies as a way of organizing, selecting and teaching content related to citizenship, and by describing the three competing traditions within the social studies. A related article is SO 500 189. (JB)

The author sauggests that present inquiry methods are often missing their goal and offers a technique to engage students in creative inquiry. (Author)