This paper discusses the traditional lecture-based instruction method. Strong experimental evidence suggests that social context affects knowledge construction and depends on prior knowledge. Engagement in the inquiry process using constructivist viewpoints can make the characteristics of science, scientific knowledge, and scientific method easy…

A simulation game provides a highly versatile model suitable for use is economics, political science or sociology lessons, or in any situation in which conflict of groups or individual interests are being examined. (Author/KM)

The position paper, prepared for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, explores alternative paths for state assessment in the social studies. A set of criteria is offered which defines the general actions of problematic inquiry and provides a general framework that directs attention to the institutional underpinnings which give meaning…

Discusses uses of the process approach to teach problem solving techniques to education students enrolling in a noncalculus physics course. Indicates that the prospective teachers are given opportunities to do real problem solving with the hope that they can foster in secondary school youngsters a better inquiry approach to science. (CC)

Some ideas for teaching about the energy crisis are developed in this article. The author suggests related inquiry questions and suggests techniques for clarification of interrelationships. Graphs and data related to the energy crisis are included. (SM)

A history course could be built around the hypothesis that capitalism, democracy, protestantism, individualism are the result of abnormal conditions caused when congested Europe discovered and began to exploit the Great Frontier; the assumption continues that when the abnormal conditions abate the world will return to a normal'' state. (JB)

The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)

This study sought to determine (1) what kind of training aids the development of inquiry teaching behaviors? and (2) what criteria of inquiry can be constructed against which to measure classroom behavior patterns? Result revealed that much more work needs to be done to train and to retrain teachers in the art of inquiry and in the proper use of…

This essay presents a review of books with which the well-read social educator should be familiar, offering a body of literature that can assist in understanding different views of new social studies and including illuminating examples from the resources. (SM)

To test materials and teaching strategies for a public issues curriculum, staff members of the Project planned, taught, and evaluated a three-year experimental program in a large high school. Evaluation data is presented. (JB)

Gifted grade nine students in a biology program supplemented with selected Invitations to Enquiry'' performed significantly better on the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal than did a control group. (AL)

Describes the development, evaluation, and use of Laboratory Explorations in Biology" as an integral part of the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) Inquiry Role Approach". Student and teacher reactions are described, and an example of student evaluation of peers' achievement is given. (AL)