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Further & Deeper
1) Inquiry and the "scientific method":
- Parallel with inquiry learning
- Poppers sciences
2) Inquiry and understanding:
- The essential interplay between the inquiry process and conceptual understanding
- Dispel the myth that process is all that matters or that science process can proceed usefully without science background or knowledge.
- Going beyond the idea that all teachers need to do is to get comfortable with saying, "I don't know"
- Recognize that the quality of teachers' own investigations, and the extent to which these lead to important learnings, all must build on their knowledge base of:
- inquiry
- ecology
- organisms/natural history
3) The challenges of transfer:
- Open inquiry might be more appropriate for teachers than for students?
- Few teachers actually did open inquiry with their students.
4) When the school site really does limit inquiry:
- Vignette about a site enhancement project that fostered inquiry-based teaching.
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