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Article: Breaking into inquiry: scaffolding supports beginning efforts to implement inquiry in the classroom.
- Article from:
- The Science Teacher
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
- Author:
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For science teachers, implementing inquiry for the first time can seem intimidating. Inquiry-based curriculum requires teachers to design experiences that engage students in scientific phenomena through direct observation, data gathering, and analysis of evidence. Replacing familiar routines and conventional methods with inquiry may seem outside of a teacher's budget, unpredictable, less structured, and more difficult to manage. Appropriately scaffolded inquiry, however, can provide a smooth transition.
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Teachers who are considering inquiry as an instructional technique for the first time should incrementally apply variations of ...