Full Description
Engage students in object-based inquiry to encourage them to become more observant, inquisitive, and reflective!
Object-based inquiry is a tested method that enhances the skills of the student, as well as the instructor, by engaging students in hands-on studies of everyday objects, raising their curiosity and enthusiasm for the learning process. Hands-on instructional strategies foster active learning, allowing students to investigate essential questions, while at the same time meeting curriculum standards and creating a profoundly new learning experience. In this exciting new book, educators and authors Amy Edmonds Alvarado and Patricia R. Herr explore the concept of using everyday objects as a process initiated both by students and teachers, encouraging growth in student observation, inquisitiveness, and reflection in learning.
Essential focal points of this teaching resource include:
Concept and theory
Getting started and gathering collections of different objects
Lesson planning and student grouping
Formative and summative assessments
Sample lesson plans for language arts, science, social studies, and math
Inquiry-Based Learning Using Everyday Objects is a practical guide that will promote change in both teaching and thinking. It is a tool that all educators should add to their existing repertoire of teaching methods.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Dedication
Introduction: Welcome to Inquiry-Based Learning Using Everyday Objects (Object-Based Inquiry)
Part I. Object-Based Learning
1. What Is Object-Based Inquiry?
The Reality of Object-Based Learning
Why Use Object-Based Inquiry?
Time to Begin Your Journey
2. How Do I Gather Collections?
Getting Started
Expanding Your Collection
Storing Your Collections
3. How Do I Get Started?
Planning the Classroom
Grouping Your Students
Planning Your Lessons
Avoiding the Pitfalls
Benefits
Roles of the Teacher and Students
4. Where Do I Start With Planning?
Things to Consider
Step One: Developing Essential Understandings
Step Two: Identifying Specific Objectives
Step Three: Locating the Objects
Step Four: Question Development
Conclusion
5. How Do I Assess?
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Part II. Lesson Plans
6. Language Lesson Plans
Why Do Tigers Have Stripes?
What Makes a Poem Perfect?
She Sells Sea Shells
What's Your Fantasy?
7. Science Lesson Plans
Zone Home
Birds of a Feather
Whose Track Is That?
Science Rocks
8. Social Studies Lesson Plans
I'm a Mystery: What's My History
Can You Dig History?
Where in America Are You?
Flower Power
9. Math Lesson Plans
Measuring Madness
Architectural Geometry
What's For Dinner?
What Part of Fractions Is Difficult?
Glossary
Index
