This paper discusses research on activity structure design in a project-based science classroom and efforts to adapt designs from this setting to an after-school program involving historical inquiry. Common activity structures such as classroom lessons and Initiation-Reply-Evaluation (I-R-E) sequences are important cultural tools that help…

This book presents the National Science Resources Center's (NSRC's) strategic planning model for bringing about district-wide elementary science reform in accordance with the National Science Education Standards. The NSRC model views the elementary science program as a cohesive system that includes: a research-based, inquiry-centered science…

English teachers have given some attention to aesthetic reading, usually terming it the development of literary appreciation, but many of the classroom practices used to foster that appreciation have been counterproductive. One consideration in developing aesthetic reading has to do with the means for promoting reflection in readers. That is,…

The 5-page information sheet presents a brief history and background information involving the social worker and the Indian client. Also provided are lists of differences in Indian and White cultural values and kinds of practices concerning interpersonal relationships common among the Indian people, and suggestions and techniques for use by social…

Describes an open-ended project designed to have preservice elementary teachers regard science as inquiry. The problem deals with how many pencils could be made from the wood in a telephone pole. Several methods of solving the problem are described. (BR)

In the Cheche Konnen project, secondary school language minority students plan and carry out investigations into phenomena in the natural world as scientists would ("cheche konnen" is Haitian Creole for "search for knowledge"). Students pose questions, plan and implement research to explore them, build and revise theories,…

Teaching history with original documents is a stimulus for the inquiry method of learning. A curriculum packet produced by the Oregon State Archives contains 24 historical document facsimiles with an accompanying instructors manual. Selected from the state archives with an explanation of each document and questions for discussion provided, the…

Materials are provided for a unit of study that will help high school students learn about the life of Louis Riel, who as the leader of the Canadian Rebellion of 1885 led his followers into armed conflict with the Canadian government. Riel lived at a time of rapid change in western Canada. The extinction of the buffalo ended the people's nomadic…

Instructions are provided to help high school teachers implement a unit of study dealing with the life of Louis Riel, who as the leader of the Canadian Rebellion of 1885 led his followers into armed conflict with the Canadian government. The guide first outlines the unit's educational objectives. The bulk of the guide discusses the two major…

The educological perspective treats the educational process as a dependent variable and other factors or processes as independent variables. Educological inquiry can be of at least three kinds, depending on the logic of inquiry implied by the questions which are posed in the inquiry: analytic, normative, or empirical. Successful educological…

Elaborates on the argument that listening is a neglected observational skill and provides suggestions for skill development. (PEB)

The most effective integration of technology for enhancing learning in social studies has been found to engage students in inquiry centered around authentic, complex, real world problems in order to develop higher order thinking and problem solving skills. These technology enhanced learning environments allow for student control over the learning…

Contributors to this journal have long recognised that success in public examinations is at least partly achieved by carefully teaching in Key Stage 3. A critical component of A-Level is that students who wish to access the highest grades need to be able to handle the work of "real" historians--analysing it, and using it to modify their…

The articles collected in this issue of "The English Record" examine various aspects of the use of interdisciplinary approaches in English instruction. Titles are "Zen, the Arts, and Motorcycle Maintenance" by Janet Gane and Tom Reigstad, which describes the formation of a course in creative inquiry; "Career Education and the English Curriculum"…