This booklet introduces the SM-14 (Scientific Method) Formula and lists characteristics of the scientific method. A history and progression of the scientific method is also featured. Contents include: (1) The Basic Principles of the Scientific Method; (2) Submitting Ideas Incorporating SM-14; (3) The 11 Stages of the SM-14 Formula and Famous…

At its most basic level, philosophical inquiry--the importance and uses of critical thinking--can provide methods for examining the things that are taken for granted during daily routines. This paper explores philosophical inquiry in the field of instructional technology. In the first section, philosophy and the field of instructional technology…

The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze collaborative work with teachers in the context of investigating inquiry-oriented instruction. The analysis is based on a review of empirical research and the personal experience of the author. The empirical component of this report is based on extended collaborative work in four studies, each of…

This book identifies the teacher's role and provides guidance on the motivation of students, teaching strategies, questioning techniques, and the assessment of student learning for effective teaching. Chapters include: (1) "Why Science? What Science?"; (2) "Bringing Children and Science Together"; (3) "The Right Question at the Right Time" (Jos…

The Environmental Inquiry (EI) program (Cornell University and Pennsylvania State University) supports inquiry based, student-centered science teaching on selected topics in the environmental sciences. Texts to support high school student research are published by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) in the domains of environmental…

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…