contributed by Rob van Nood and Paul Monheimer My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching the FAME project. Along the way, our middle school students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it and the tools we used. “What if this...
Why Creating A Culture Of Inquiry Is So Important by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Imagine yourself sitting across from a mortgage broker sometime in the early 2000’s. The economy is riding high and you’ve decided to stake out your portion of...
13 Tips For Students Researching Through Google Search by TeachThought Staff Google Search offers as a universe of information and has thoroughly changed not just research but the very appearance of the accessibility of knowledge. In How Google Impacts The Way...
5 Strategies For Teaching About The Holocaust Through Inquiry contributed by Tyrone Shaw Effective teaching about the Holocaust requires asking students the right questions, and that is the beginning of any inquiry-based lesson. The good thing, too, is that many...
Are there questions students can ask themselves while you’re teaching? Questions that can guide and support their own thinking and awareness before, during, and after your teaching? Of course, this assumes you’re ‘teaching’ a traditional...
The Impact Of Technology On Curiosity by Terry Heick Curiosity is the “complex feeling and cognition that accompanies a desire to learn what is unknown,” according to Min Jeong Kang and fellow researchers in a 2009 study. Neurological research here focused on, among...
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