Modifies an extended lab activity from a cookbook approach for determining the percent mass of water in copper sulfate pentahydrate crystals to one which incorporates students' prior knowledge, engenders active mental struggling with prior knowledge and new experiences, and encourages metacognition. (Contains 12 references.) (ASK)

Investigated how teacher research group members pursued inquiry in their classrooms and how inquiry affected their teaching. Using the self-extending system of strategies for analysis, connections are drawn between the work children do in learning to read better and the work teacher researchers do in learning to teach better. The paper highlights…

Tracks classroom research on a technology-rich inquiry weather program with six urban science teachers. Investigates students' achievement of content and inquiry as well as technology's contribution to inquiry science and positive learning values. (Contains 30 references.) (Author/YDS)

Describes an informal teaching approach for elementary school students at zoos. (YDS)

Introduces the Workshop Biology Project which is based on conceptual change by confronting students' conceptions and inquiry based science context. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/YDS)

Proposes a multilevel-multifaceted approach to evaluating the impact of education reform on student achievement that would be sensitive to context and small treatment effects. Uses a different assessment based on students' proximity to the enacted curriculum. Indicates that close assessment were more sensitive to the changes in students' pre- to…

Reports on a project designed to develop an inquiry-based approach to curriculum and instruction in a general chemistry course. Reports that a major objective, met in various ways, was to develop a laboratory curriculum that meshes intimately with lecture. (Author/MM)

Analyzes articles published in "I Wonder", a publication designed to promote scientific discourse among elementary students, offers an overview of the journal as a tool for promoting authentic inquiry and examine scientific and engineering projects published by students. (Author/MM)

Discusses how the parents and students associated with the Center for Inquiry are well aware of the impact this teaching philosophy has on children, their learning, and their lives. Compiles brief accounts written by parents and students concerning how inquiry and a nurturing environment have meant in terms of achievement, self-esteem, and family…

Evaluates the effectiveness of teacher-scientist partnerships for increasing the use of inquiry in precollege classrooms. Indicates increased appreciation for inquiry, greater confidence in teaching using inquiry, and greater use of inquiry in the classroom. Suggests that collaborations between teachers and research scientists can positively…

Describes an ecological expedition documenting the development of African American community leaders in Chicago, showing how a collaborative research process between a university and the Developing Communities Project enhanced the quality of the documentation. Discusses the role of metaphors, which elaborated shared meanings of expressed…

Suggests that an examination of rhetorical practices at the local bar is instructive: (1) the barroom is predictably different from the university writing classroom; and (2) the barroom is surprisingly similar to the university writing classroom. Shows that the rhetoric that is valued most highly in today's writing classroom operates differently…

Presents a laboratory exercise designed to introduce students to the hemodynamic variables (heart rate, stroke volume, total peripheral resistance, and compliance) that alter arterial pressure. (Author/CCM)

Highlights and provides information about the grant awarded to Bismarck State College, Bismarck, North Dakota by the National Science Foundation (NSF). (ASK)

Presents a science activity that is a combination of guided-inquiry and open-inquiry in which students investigate crayfish. (YDS)