Nine Thousand Straws: Teaching Thinking Through Open-Inquiry Learning
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Based on nine years of design, research, and open-inquiry lab teaching experience with over 600 children annually, Nine Thousand Straws presents an inquiry instructional approach that engages the inquisitive energy children naturally bring to the learning table. It offers practical methods and concrete guidance that will enable you to open, employ, and guide this energy towards developing productive and globally applicable thinking skills and dispositions.
Introduction History, and AcknowledgementsCh. 1 Cultivating Innovative and Industrious Thinking 1Ch. 2 Project as Medium, Teacher as Coach 17Ch. 3 Setting Up Inquiry for Mindful Practice 47Ch. 4 Focus Theme Sampler 55Ch. 5 Inquiry Project Design 115Ch. 6 Inquiry Project Sampler 125Ch. 7 Finding Parents as Partners and Sending Inquiry Home 203Ch. 8 Setting the Open-Inquiry Stage 209Appendix A 225Appendix B 231Appendix C Quick Link: Focus Theme Conversations to Build Habits of Mind 241Appendix D Quick Link: Lab Time Conversations to Build Habits of Mind 247Appendix E Quick Link: Target Inquiry Lab Skills 255Appendix F Co-Educator Questionnaire 257Appendix G Lab Rubric: Inquiry in Action 259Appendix H An Eye on Open-Inquiry 261Appendix I Additional Inquiry Possibilities 263Appendix J Potential Suppliers 271Appendix K New Lab Challenge Idea! 273Appendix L Student Lab Project Advice (for Clipboard or Notebook) 275Appendix M1 Analyze It! Moving From Three to Two Dimensions 277Appendix M2 Analyze It! What System Are You Using to Solve This Challenge? 279Appendix M3 Analyze It! How Does This Do That? 281Appendix N Words for Thinking and Doing 283Appendix O Student Lab-Time Question Card 287Appendix P Project Card Master Example 289Appendix Q Beginning Middle End Graphic 291Appendix R Store Sum Student Worksheet and Price List 293Appendix S Magnet Mural Shape Possibilities 297Appendix T MI Student Interview Sheet 299Appendix U Mobile in Balance Building Instructions 303Appendix V Habits of Mind Student Reference Sheet 305Appendix W Geodesic Dome Nonverbal Instructions 309Appendix XStrawberry Basket Clipboard Graphic 311Appendix Y Name That Bone! 313Suggested Readings 315Theories and Methods 315Theories and Methods Web Sites 317Application and Project Support 317Application and Project Support Web sites 319Index 321
