Most conventional school science curricula and the teaching practices that implement them offer students no firsthand contact with working science. This paper seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How can "school science" claim to offer a basis for education in or about science at all? (2) What is the status of this claim in relation to…

Common questions that children ask can promote creative thinking. The question, "What will happen if...?" can set the stage for creative problem solving by encouraging the use of the scientific method. The scientific method involves learning how to hypothesize, recording procedures for experimentation, developing skills in observation and data…

Article considered how learning takes place by examining the transfer of attitudes and principles at the heart of the educational process. (Author/RK)

Describes the Inquiry Role Approach for biology in which group work leads to enhancement of attitudinal, social and inquiry skills. (LS)

Article focused on the teaching behaviors which facilitate successful student inquiry. (Author/RK)

Article discussed the inquiry approach in teaching music. (Editor/RK)

Being aware of and using factual, conceptual and contextual questions is vital to the teaching-learning experience. (JH)

Reviewed are research studies demonstrating classroom teacher inadequacy in question asking. (CL)

Presents detailed teaching plans for activities with "rubberized" magnets as well as background information and alternative teaching-learning approaches. This activity may be used to develop student skills in inferring and in observing evidence of interaction. Includes instructions for equipment construction. (BR)

Kaplan (1964) describes the now classic distinction between "logic-in-use," the more or less logical cognitive style and procedures used by the educational scientist, and "reconstructed logic," the scientist's after-the-fact, explicit formulation and idealization of the logic and procedures. However, most technical documents…

This paper is a case study of a recently reconceptualized teacher education program which has a critical inquiry base and an emphasis on "language across the curriculum." The paper describes the program's rationale, organization and practice along with a description of the ongoing process of program development. The goal of the Rockhurst…

An analysis of curriculum journals indicates that curriculum inquiry is not a simple matter. It is characterized by raising problems, addressing each problem by a variety of methods, and proposing for each method a variety of kinds of solutions. Curriculum inquiry follows a "Musketeer Model": all for one and one for all. The predominant form of…

Ways of integrating consumer education with an inquiry approach into the social studies curriculum are described in three categories: the marketplace as resource, value clarification and consumer behavior, and community action projects. (JH)

Described is the Inquiry Role Approach, a teaching methodology for secondary school biology, developed by staff at the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri. The materials are designed to complement, not to supplement or substitute for, the biology textbook. (PEB)

A look at the unit box, a seminal development in elementary school teacher preparation. (Author/HB)