Inquiring Minds Learning about Inquiry

Inquiring Minds Learning about Inquiry 

Comparing My Scientific Me to Why do Scientists do Science?

         While reading the article, I came across a paragraph of the reading that described the appearance of a scientist that the author interviewed and talked to. My original visualization of a scientist was contradicted by what Jennifer DeMichele described. When I think about the word scientist, I think about someone wearing glasses or goggles, a white lab coat, with a beaker or microscope in their hand. Ms. DeMichele had stated that she had similar visions of a scientist like the one I described when she was little girl. She mentioned that the whole vision was wrong, she visited scientists who had offices and the appearance that unassumingly could have belonged to a classic, English professor. I was impressed!

BSCS 5E Instructional Model

           I also learned about the 5E's as an inquiry-based instructional model of teaching inquiry. I think that the 5E learning model is a good approach to use especially when teaching science. I think that if teachers followed this framework, they would be able to reach out to students more often and the students would be more involved in the learning process. The inquiry process gives the students the opportunity to go through the scientific method, but the 5E's allow an opportunity to include the inquiry process and cooperative learning in which the students help each other learn. I will use the inquiry process and the 5E instructional model in the future and maybe I will even refer to it for my edTPA.