| Inquiry Cycle | Science Classroom |
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| Exploration Open Inquiry |
- Teacher Exploration of student thinking
- Teacher encourages discussion around possible questions for investigation
- Teacher probes students to determine student thinking
- Student Exploration of phenomenon
- Student engages with the phenomenon
- Student determines a question for focused exploration
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Experimentation
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Data CollectionStudent Developed Inquiry |
- Teacher collects data on
- How students are Working together
- What students are thinking and Thinking Questions to ask as students are working
- How to improve the investigation environment
- How well students are doing with collecting & organizing data
- Student designs an experiment and gathers data about the physical phenomenon or question
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| Sense-Making Conceptual Inquiry |
- Teacher creates opportunity for students to evaluate the areas of teacher data collection and facilitates a discussion on how the individual investigations illuminate the question that was investigated to identify areas of confusion and new questions.
- Student analyzes data to make a finding. The student organizes / displays the data as a tool to illuminate the question and then communicates their investigation and findings.
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