Journey North: Seasonal Migrations - Monarch Butterflies
The Journey North program is a free resource for elementary and middle school classes that is comprised of a variety of topics, lessons, and activities. Each thirty-minute professional development workshop provides an opportunity to see Journey North classrooms in action while exploring science inquiry and other standards-based teaching and learning practices.
While the Journey North program provides opportunities for exploring dozens of different animal migrations, this workshop focuses on the most popular migration--that of monarch butterflies. Participants use some of the lessons from Journey North resources to study migration while using prediction as an inquiry tool, exploring the Journey North website, and correlating the Journey North investigations with life science curriculum.
Journey North: Plants and the Seasons - Tulip Gardens
The Journey North program is a free resource for elementary and middle school classes that is comprised of a variety of topics, lessons, and activities. Each thirty-minute professional development workshop provides an opportunity to see Journey North classrooms in action while exploring science inquiry and other standards-based teaching and learning practices.
This workshop follows several classes around the country as they explore plant growth and seasonal change through individual student investigations and through Journey North's International Tulip Study. Participants learn the importance of experimental protocols, as well as how Journey North integrates process skills into inquiry-based activities.
Journey North: Sunlight and the Seasons - Mystery Class
The Journey North program is a free resource for elementary and middle school classes that is comprised of a variety of topics, lessons, and activities. Each thirty-minute professional development workshop provides an opportunity to see Journey North classrooms in action while exploring science inquiry and other standards-based teaching and learning practices.
Journey North's investigation into sunlight's seasonal changes takes students on an eleven-week-long investigative hunt known as Mystery Class. This workshop presentation chronicles the students' adventures as they track and analyze changes in sunlight north and south of the equator and follow a series of clues to locate the ten Journey North Mystery Classes around the world.
Learning Science Through Inquiry: What Is Inquiry and Why Do It?
This introductory workshop presents an overview of why inquiry is such a powerful approach to teaching and learning science-how it enables you to assess and meet the needs of a wide range of learners, how it taps children's natural curiosity, and how it deepens their understanding of science.
Learning Science Through Inquiry: Setting the Stage - Creating a Learning Community
At the heart of inquiry teaching and learning is a positive environment that encourages and supports students on their learning paths. This course looks at what is needed for building that foundation and preparing your students for inquiry investigations.
Learning Science Through Inquiry: The Process Begins - Launching the Inquiry
To inquire into specific scientific phenomena, students need to draw upon a foundation of experience. This course shows how you can encourage students to share and discuss what they already know, and to explore the materials and phenomena in an open-ended manner.
Learning Science Through Inquiry: Focus the Inquiry - Designing the Exploration
Students' open exploration leads to a range of interests and questions that lead in turn to deeper investigation. This course looks at the design process-how you can guide students to plan and begin their investigations.
Learning Science Through Inquiry: Processing for Meaning During Inquiry
Making meaning from investigations and experience requires that you guide student dialogue, encouraging your students to make connections, draw conclusions, and ask new questions. This course looks at the rationale for this kind of processing, and strategies that can help students construct new mental frameworks.
Learning Science Through Inquiry: Assessing Inquiry
Assessment is an ongoing process in the classroom. This course looks at a variety of assessment strategies that range from the very informal formative assessments to formal summative assessments, and explores the purposes each can serve.
Learning Science Through Inquiry: Connecting Other Subjects to Inquiry
This course explores how to use subjects like mathematics and language to further scientific inquiry and understanding of science concepts, and conversely, how science can aid learning in other subjects. It also reiterates the benefits of learning science through inquiry and explores your "next steps" along the inquiry journey.