Science as Inquiry

Science as Inquiry
The developers of this course believe that the best way for teachers to acquire the skills needed to implement science as inquiry in their classrooms is to let them experience such a classroom themselves. Teachers participating in this course will experience first-hand exactly how a teacher-mentor facilitates Earth system science learning, given an open-learning curriculum in an online, collaborative environment.

Teacher participants will work in teams over the Internet. They will investigate interesting, relevant environmental problems and will generate products and answers that demonstrate deep understanding of content, not rote memorization. Teachers will build their own knowledge base of Earth system science in a way that is creative and meaningful. To guide this exploration, expectations are provided in the form of rubrics in the assessment section .