Inquiry-based learning involves seeking information by asking questions. Traditional ways of teaching required memorization and repetition of expected answers. Facts change, so it is important to learn how to produce appropriate resolutions. Inquiry-based learning encourages the “need or want to know”. Project-based learning is an approach to teaching that encourages students to explore real-world problems and challenges. In my unit plan, I chose Science and Math as two of my three subject areas because I feel that our educational system needs help finding ways to get our students more interesting in these areas. Most students may not see the link to Math and Science to their everyday lives and how they will use what they learn in the real world. Inquiry-based learning and project-based learning will help demonstrate to the students, who then go through the steps themselves. My unit plan includes the following essential question, "How can you be helpful to your environment?" My unit question for Math, "What is the difference from a producer and a consumer?", for Science, "How do organisms affect one another?", and for English Language Arts and Reading, "In what ways has our environment changes in the past five years?"
I think this is great! I also think that it is important for kids to be more engaged in those two subjects because I know as a child I wasn't interested in those at all! It's important that we are constantly keeping them engaged! Good job!
ReplyDeleteI like the way that you explained inquiry-based learning as the "need or want to know!" Math and science are those subjects that seem to be taught, and the connection is very easily made in my opinion, but you are right long time ago it was all about memorizing facts and there was no connections made for students. I remembering asking why are we learning this and the response I got was because I have to teach it to you. I do believe that in certain areas of teaching repetition is still a very important aspect of teaching, because I feel the more you do something the better you learn it. This can still be done with inquiry and project-based learning by using differentiated instruction of the material.
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