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Task


You will demonstrate skills in the Five Essential Features of Inquiry by achieving the following workshop outcomes, so that when you return to the classroom, you can revise your own lessons to include inquiry methods and effectively integrate demonstrated technologies.

  • Communicate and justify your findings about your forecast through a PowerPoint presentation.
  • Communicate and justify your findings about your surface temperature data through scientific posters.
  • Evaluate your inquiry experience over the two days with the "Five Essential Features of Inquiry" handout.
  • Decide on one lesson or unit you will revise integrating science inquiry.

Learn more about the 5 Essential Features of Inquiry:

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"Essential Features of Classroom Inquiry"
PowerPoint Presentation

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  VIEW/PRINT from a PDF handout version of the presentation.
 
   
 


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This WebQuest developed by Lori Seawel, Instructional Designer and Technology Coordinator
ITS-Educational Technology, University of Northern Iowa

Contributing Authors:
Alan Czarnetzki, Professor of Earth Science & Director of STORM, University of Northern Iowa
Marcy Seavey, STEM Coordinator, University of Northern Iowa
Doreen Hayek, Projects Administrator, ITS-Educational Technology, University of Northern Iowa
Eve Halligan, Program Coordinator, Iowa Academy of Science
Lori Seawel, Instructional Designer & Technology Coordinator,
ITS-Educational Technology, University of Northern Iowa

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