Inquiry-based Instruction

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Inquiry and the NSES online

Here is an article written by David Haury entitled Teaching Science Through Inquiry that provides results on research related to inquiry-based instruction

MCPS Science Website that contains useful information for contacts, procedures, instruction, assessment and curriculum. Scroll down for useful resources related to the 5-E model. Included here is some of the research and pedagogical basis for the 5-E model.

A proposed 7-E model eliciting students' prior conceptions and transfer of learning to the 5-E model

Examples of 5-E lessons in biology

This resource entitles Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science has numerous lesson plans in the 5-E format

Project ICAN is a project whose goal is to help teachers incorporate instruction to promote student understanding of scientific inquiry and nature of science into the classroom, There are numerous resources for teachers at this site including lesson plans for teaching about the Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry.