inquiry-based learning

Provides advice and lessons to engage middle school students and encourage collaboration, self-awareness, and compassion in the middle school classroom.

Presents story starters, activities, and review questions designed to help students in grades three through six understand basic scientific concepts.

Presents learning plans for grades six through twelve that address developmental steps and differential abilities in Common Core State Standards key competencies. Sample lessons are aligned with key curriculum areas such as social studies, science, physical education, art, and music.

Contains hands-on projects and "focus-theme" discussions that motivates students through open-inquiry learning.

Discusses a number of ways that businesses can learn to grow by asking the right questions.

"How can you create an authentic learning environment--one where students ask questions, do research, and explore subjects that fascinate them--in today's standards-driven atmosphere? Author Larissa Pahomov offers insightful answers based on her experience as a classroom teacher at the Science Leadership Academy, a public high school in Philadelphia that offers a rigorous college-prep curriculum and boasts a 99 percent graduation rate. Pahomov outlines a framework for learning structured around five core values: inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection." -- Publisher's website.

Examines the notion of inquiry learning and offers advice for incorporating it with Common Core standards in schools.

Contains lessons, strategies, and activities that may be used to teach science concepts in elementary classrooms, each with a related list of literature selections, as well experiments and projects that integrate skills from other areas of the curriculum.