What Can They Can DO Rather than Know... One Teacher’s Thinking on Inquiry - Part Three

This is part three of a three part post - 2 STEPS TO SIMPLIFIED INQUIRY: Research & Thinking.  Thanks for reading!

A colleague asked for some help in putting together an inquiry, so I put this together as one idea..

A simple machine unit that culminates in building a Rube Goldberg machine and documenting the attempts and successes.




Thanks to a SCCDSB teacher from St Michael's in Ridgetown who submitted this post. She has chosen to have her name withheld.

Learning Out Loud! Welcome to SCCDSB's IT's About Learning Blog.

This blog is  a collection of learning from our St. Clair Catholic family: our students, teachers, administration, parishes, parents  and community partners.  We are hoping to share our successes and celebrations, struggles and challenges, wonderings and inquiries in order to learn out loud with our colleagues and with the world.

At SCCDSB we are walking together in Christ’s light with parish and family and are called to build a safe and inclusive Catholic learning community and to serve as partners in the formation of life-long learners by: 

• Living our faith; 

• Promoting educational achievement and innovation; 

• Fostering stewardship, leadership and social justice.

We are working to make our students’ learning experiences 21st-Century: reflective of the global and digital age in which we live, rich in critical thinking, creativity and citizenship and enhanced by technology.

Share what you or your teacher/colleague/student/classroom/child/family are learning.  It could be how someone demonstrates being a discerning believer, an effective communicator, a reflective & creative thinker, a self-directed, responsible, life long learner, a collaborative contributor, a caring family member or a responsible citizen by blogging, doing a service project, using Google Docs, using BYOD, making a difference in the world, etc. 

We welcome submissions that are less than 250 words with optional pictures and YouTube video as well - please share!  (Be sure to respect privacy by having permission to put student images on a public website before submitting!)

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