{"id":45,"date":"2019-01-07T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/mste5120physicalscience\/?post_type=chapter&p=45"},"modified":"2019-01-10T00:27:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:27:57","slug":"getting-started-with-inquiry-based-teaching-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/mste5120physicalscience\/chapter\/getting-started-with-inquiry-based-teaching-and-learning\/","title":{"raw":"Getting Started with Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning","rendered":"Getting Started with Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning"},"content":{"raw":"
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING<\/div>\r\n

A Case for Curiosity<\/h1>\r\n
Young children are always asking \"why?\" because humans are born scientists. We can nurture this by modelling the value of curiosity, exploration, and experimentation.<\/div>\r\nEvery year millions of children enter kindergarten with the question \"Why?\" uppermost in their mind.\u00a0 \u00a0They ask this question, and other questions, in what seems like a never-ending loop.\u00a0 \u00a0Adults try their best to answer, but they quickly realize that behind one question and answer is another question.\u00a0 \u00a0It can be frustrating for adults, but this is how children are learning.\u00a0 \u00a0They are trying to understand how things work\u00a0 They are learning and learning how to learn.\r\n\r\nEarly childhood education research indicates that all children have a curious scientific nature.\u00a0 \u00a0Toddlers and pre-schoolers behave like scientists, but something happens to many of them as they get older -- they stop asking \"why\" and their curiosity appears to fade away.\u00a0 \u00a0This article appeared in the prestigious journal \"Science\" in 2012.\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/337\/6102\/1623<\/a>\r\n\r\nNew theoretical ideas and empirical research show that very young children\u2019s learning and thinking are strikingly similar to much learning and thinking in science. Preschoolers test hypotheses against data and make causal inferences; they learn from statistics and informal experimentation, and from watching and listening to others. . These discoveries have implications for early childhood education and policy. In particular, they suggest both that early childhood experience is extremely important and that the trend toward more structured and academic early childhood programs is misguided.<\/span>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/a-case-for-curiosity-ainissa-ramirez<\/a>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/why-curiosity-enhances-learning-marianne-stenger<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMany great thinkers and artists lament the act of forgetting one's innate nature. In fact, Picasso once said, \"All children are artists,\" to which he added that the trick was to remain that way as an adult. The same goes for curiosity. All children are scientists. The trick is to remain that way throughout our lives.<\/span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_51\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"216\"]\"\" Pablo Picasso in 1908.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_52\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"472\"]\"\" Guernica One of Picasso's most famous works.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGuernica, one of Picasso's most famous works.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_53\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]\"\" Albert Einstein 1948 by Yousef Karsh[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
\u00a0Yousuf Karsh photographed Einstein at Princeton in 1948.<\/div>\r\n
\"At Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, I found Einstein a simple, kindly, almost childlike man, too great for any of the postures of eminence. One did not have to understand his science to feel the power of his mind or the force of his personality. He spoke sadly, yet serenely, as one who had looked into the universe, far past mankind's small affairs. When I asked him what the world would be like were another atomic bomb to be dropped, he replied wearily, \"Alas, we will no longer be able to hear the music of Mozart.\"<\/div>\r\n
http:\/\/acurator.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/albert-einstein-by-yousuf-karsh.html<\/a><\/div>\r\n \r\n\r\nGetting started in your classroom\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn the 2008 book \"Ready, Set, Science! Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classroom\" the authors,\u00a0 Michaels, Schouse and Shcweingruber have some key recommendations\r\n