SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

Scientific Inquiry

Scientific Inquiry

Scientific inquiry causes students to employ higher order thinking skills plus learn science from a minds-on approach. In Dewey's book Democracy in Education (1916), he points that education commences with the curiosity of learners. Student curiosity plus participation in scientific inquiry moves them beyond passive learning to higher order thinking by:

asking questions

designing investigations

investigating

formulating explanations

presenting findings

reflecting on findings

Scientific inquiry causes a basic change from traditional teaching practices to a joint relationship between teacher as well as students. In collaborative environments students take risks without fear of mockery. Teachers become facilitators as they:

model scientific inquiry abilities

ask guiding ...