| Images of connected features: |
| | | The WISE inquiry map |  |
| | | Model-It |  |
| | | Examples of Inquiry |  |
| | | Data Query (The Galapagos Finches) |  |
| | | Alternated Individual and Group Discourse (eStep) |  |
| | | Journal Organization |  |
| | | Science Research Link |  |
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| Description: |
This principle calls to establish a generalized inquiry process suitable for diverse science projects so students can revisit ideas. If students can revisit their ideas and their inquiry skills they can continue to apply them in new contexts and settings.
Students need a repertoire of approaches to inquiry that they can reuse. By labeling and highlighting repeated aspects of inquiry such as critiquing perspectives, designing experiments, making predictions, interpreting perspectives, and forming arguments we can help students recognize some general inquiry skills that apply to most situations. These are often called critical thinking or problem solving. By making revisiting of ideas part of instruction, designers mimic the experience of lifelong learning where students might encounter an instructed topic outside of class. When learners revisit a topic they reuse their inquiry process with customization to the new contexts.
Revisiting, when successful, has the effect of strengthening the connections to the retrieval process and therefore increasing the likelihood of retrieval in the future.
Some specific principles connected with this principle:
- Design inquiry environments so students can appreciate both the variety of inquiry patterns and the similarities in inquiry across contexts.
- Design prompts and other activities to allow learners to identify their weaknesses.
- Connect scaffolded inquiry activities to self-initiated inquiry.
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| References (Off-line): |
| Linn, M. C., & Hsi, S., 2000. Computers, Teachers, Peers: Science Learning Partners. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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| References (Online): |
| http://www.internetscienceeducation.org/chapter13.html |
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