HR: 0800h
AN: ED41C-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Inquiry Coaching: Scientists & Science Educators Energizing the Next Generation
AU: Shope, R E
EM:
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive M/S 169-237, Pasadena, CA 90602, United States
AU: * Alcantara Valverde, L
EM: ligiaalcantara@msn.com
AF: Universidad Loyola del Pacifico, Av. Heroico Colegio Militar s/n. Fracc. Cumbres de Llano Largo, Acapulco, Gue 39820, Mexico
AB: A recent National Academy of Sciences report recommends that science educators focus strategically on teaching the practice of science. To accomplish this, we have devised and implemented the Science Performance Laboratory, a collaborative research, education, and workforce model that brings scientists and science educators together to conduct scientific inquiry. In this session, we demonstrate how to form active inquiry teams around Arctica Science Research content areas related to the International Polar Year. We use the term "Arctica Science Research" to refer to the entire scope of exploration and discovery relating to: polar science and its global connections; Arctic and Antarctic research and climate sciences; ice and cryospheric studies on Earth; polar regions of the Moon, Mars, and Mercury; icy worlds throughout the Solar System, such as Europa, Enceladus, Titan, Pluto and the Comets; cryovolcanism; ice in interstellar space, and beyond. We apply the notion of teaching the practice science by enacting three effective strategies: 1) The Inquiry Wheel Game, in which we develop an expanded understanding of what has been traditionally taught as "the scientific method"; 2) Acting Out the Science Story, in which we develop a physicalized expression of our conceptual understanding; and 3) Selecting Success Criteria for Inquiry Coaching, in which we reframe how we evaluate science learning as we teach the practice of science.
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 0855 Diversity
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly