Inquiry-Based Learning Using Everyday Objects : Hands-On Instructional Strategies That Promote Active Learning in Grades 3-8

by Amy Edmonds Alvarado

• ISBN13: 9780761946809
• ISBN10: 0761946802
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-17
• Publisher: Corwin Pr
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Summary

This exciting new book explores how students can use everyday objects to answer essential questions, meet curriculum standards, and grow in observation, inquisitiveness, and reflective learning.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Dedication

Introduction: Welcome to Inquiry-Based Learning Using Everyday Objects (Object-Based Inquiry)

Part I. Object-Based Learning

1. What Is Object-Based Inquiry?

The Reality of Object-Based Learning

Why Use Object-Based Inquiry?

Time to Begin Your Journey

2. How Do I Gather Collections?

Getting Started

Expanding Your Collection

Storing Your Collections

3. How Do I Get Started?

Planning the Classroom

Grouping Your Students

Planning Your Lessons

Avoiding the Pitfalls

Benefits

Roles of the Teacher and Students

4. Where Do I Start With Planning?

Things to Consider

Step One: Developing Essential Understandings

Step Two: Identifying Specific Objectives

Step Three: Locating the Objects

Step Four: Question Development

Conclusion

5. How Do I Assess?

Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Part II. Lesson Plans

6. Language Lesson Plans

Why Do Tigers Have Stripes?

What Makes a Poem Perfect?

She Sells Sea Shells

What's Your Fantasy?

7. Science Lesson Plans

Zone Home

Birds of a Feather

Whose Track Is That?

Science Rocks

8. Social Studies Lesson Plans

I'm a Mystery: What's My History

Can You Dig History?

Where in America Are You?

Flower Power

9. Math Lesson Plans

Measuring Madness

Architectural Geometry

What's For Dinner?

What Part of Fractions Is Difficult?

Glossary

Index