Integrating Inquiry Across the Curriculum
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Create a whole new world of understanding in your classroom!Inquiry is a fundamental step in the student learning process, and often the least understood. In Integrating Inquiry Across the Curriculum, the authors offer a collection from leading experts on how to integrate inquiry across the K-12 curriculum. This finely edited volume enables educators to visualize inquiry as the unifying knowledge base to guide students through all major subject areas. An essential resource for curriculum supervisors, professional developers, department heads, teachers, and preservice educators, this compilation includes inquiry's best practices, current research, and lesson ideas. It is a key for educators exploring ways to integrate material concepts that cut across a variety of content areas. Don't miss this incredible opportunity to learn how to make your classroom the best place it can be, where investigation and discovery learning flourish!Integrating Inquiry Across the Curriculum includes: Field-tested curriculum materials grounded in the national standardsPractical strategies that provide reliable assessment data about how students perform when engaged in inquiryEnlightening first-person accounts illustrating inquiry in the classroomAn exploration of inquiry from the unique perspectives of geography, science, history, language arts, mathematics, and more
Foreword1Inquiry : a continuum of ideas, issues, and practices52Social studies and geography : beyond rote memorization173Science inquiry : is there any other way?434History : uncovering the past through inquiry655Mathematics : developing curious students856Language arts : explore, create, discover through inquiry1117Curriculum integration : capitalizing on student inquiry1378Assessment in the inquiry classroom : asking the right questions1579Inquiry learning and special education students : rejecting instruction that disables17510Inquiry-based instruction for English language learners : ten essential elements20111Museum experiences that support classroom inquiry and teacher professional development227
