Teaching with Inquiry: Increasing Student Engagement across Disciplines

Catherine Snyder; Mary Eads; Sean O’Connell; Richard Lasselle; Sherri Duan; Daniel Mattoon; Patti Rand

doi:10.5771/9781475871739

Summary

Inquiry Learning is an innovative, hands-on, and collaborative approach to student learning. The Inquiry Learning Model shifts the heavy cognitive lifting from the teacher to the student. Documents and artifacts are used to provoke deep analysis and hone critical-thinking skills as students work in teams to interpret and connect clues to solve a mystery. A detailed step-by-step methodology is provided as well as six multidisciplinary lessons. Lessons are suitable for collaborative teaching or stand alone in discipline specific classes. For example, Exploitation and Immortality: The Story of Henrietta Lacks, is a lesson that can be used in the science, social studies, English or math classroom, or a combination of any of these disciplines. In addition to the methodology and lessons, Teaching with Inquiry includes differentiation strategies to adapt lessons to all learners, suggestions for lesson use in multiple disciplines, and a variety of graphic organizers to help students organize, process, and summarize the information throughout the lesson.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-7171-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-7173-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 116
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
1. Using Inquiry as a Tool for Learning No access
2. Teaching Students to Question Their Ideas No access
3. Leading Students to Discovery with the ILM No access
4. ILM for All No access
1. Lesson 1: The Disappearing Aral Sea (History/Earth Science) No access
2. Lesson 2: Let’s Travel to an English-Speaking City (World Languages/TESOL) No access
3. Lesson 3: Cyclical Modeling No access
4. Lesson 4: Constructing Chinese Characters (Chinese/History) No access
5. Lesson 5: Exploitation and Immortality No access
6. ‌‌Lesson 6: China’s Maritime Might (Economics/History) No access
References No access Pages 111 - 114
About the Authors No access Pages 115 - 116