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Inquiry-Based Instruction

Articles and Resources

• Project, Problem and Inquiry-Based Learning
  http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm

• Institute for Inquiry
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/index.html

• Inquiry-Based Instruction
  http://www.ctcexpeditions.org/

• A Questioning Toolkit
  http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html

• Essential Questions
  http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/essenque.htm

• Essential Questions - Comments by Jamie McKenzie

• Parenting for an Age of Information
  http://www.fno.org/parenting/outline.html

• Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students
  http://www.fno.org/grazing1.html

• Report: Insights to Inquiry-Based Learning
  http://www.nwrel.org/nwreport/sept97/article7.html

• Working the Web for Education
  http://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html

• Disney: Inquiry-Based Learning
  http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/
  month6/index.html

• Using the Internet to promote Inquiry-Based Learning
  http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html

• The Inquiry Page - Learning begins With Questions
  http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/

• Discourses of Classroom Inquiry
  http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/scied/ci407/
  Franklin&Hwang&Leander1.html

• Student Inquiry in the Research Process
  http://www.msdpt.k12.in.us/etspages/

 Online Lessons that Encourage Inquiry

• WebQuests
  http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

• Traditional to Inquiry-Based
  http://emints.more.net/info/southwest/

• Collaborative Projects
  http://www.eduplace.com/projects/

• More Collaborative Projects
  http://www.education-world.com/projects/index.shtml

• Global School House
  http://www.gsn.org/

• CIESE Online Collaborative Projects
  http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/currichome.html

• The Math Forum
  http://mathforum.org/

• iEARN Projects
  http://www.iearn.org/projects/index.html

• Classroom Projects
  http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/projects/
  projects.html#current

• Online Research Projects
  http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/onlinepr.htm

• Index of Projects
  http://www-ed.fnal.gov/trc/projects/

• Online Projects Index
  http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/join.htm

• GOALS: Global Online Adventure Learning
  http://www.goals.com/Index.htm

• Franklin Institute Inquiry Attic
  http://www.fi.edu/qa98/atticindex.html

• Franklin Institute Wired School
  http://www.fi.edu/qa98/wiredindex.html

• Inquiry Units
  http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/php/units.php3\

Research and Better Searching

• Searching The Web
  (Internet Public Library List of Search Engines)
  http://www.ipl.org/div/websearching/

• What to Do Before Searching
  http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/stepzero.html

• Four NETS for Better Searching
  http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

• Search Engine Watch
  http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

• Citing Internet Resources
  http://www.classroom.com/community/connection/howto/citeresources.jhtml

• Internet Search Engines for Kids
  http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html

Resources for Sample Inquiry-Based Unit on Social Worlds

• Inquiry-Based Instruction
  http://inquiry.uiuc.edu

• Students as Ethnographers
  http://www.ncte.org/ej/abstracts/0891-sept99/students.shtml

• City Works: Exploring Your Community
  http://www.citylore.org/

• Merchants of Cool: Merchandizing (Frontline)
  http://www.pbs.org

• Student Representations of the World of Romance Using Hypermedia Productions
  http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/socialworlds/

• Representations of Urban Worlds as Dangerous, Crime-Ridden and Poor
  http://www.newmediastudies.com/art/city-med.htm

• Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students (Click on “Sense of Place")
  http://www.carts.org

• Place Matters Project
  http://www.placematters.net/

• Webquest: Generations/family history in Philadelphia
  http://www.whyy.org/generations/neighborhood.html

• Constructions of Femininity – The Beauty industry
  http://www.bodyimagesite.com
  http://www.edap.org/media1.html

• Sites for Studying Representations of Females
  http://www.childrennow.org/media/mc87/ReflectSummary.html
  http://www.about-face.org
  http://www.genderequity.org/medialit/contents.htmlv

• Representations of Masculinity
  http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/so/kibby.htm
  http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-rol7.htm
  http://www.theory.org.uk/mensmags.htm

• Representations of Class
  http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/
  http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/marknute/Season1/rospics1.html

• Representations of Race
  http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-rol6.htm
  http://afrikan.net/hype/
  http://www.utexas.edu/world/latinosandmedia/index.html

• Representation and the Elderly
  http://thesimpsons.com/bios/bios_family_grandpa.html

• Representations of Adolescents
  http://us.imdb.com/Trailers?0089218&380&28

• Representation and Consumerism
  http://mediaed.sitepassport.net/videos/CommercialismGlobalizationAndMedia/Advertsing_EndOfWorld
  http://www.med.sc.edu:1081/toys.htm

• Virtual Worlds: Internet Fan Club Activities and Computer Game sites
  http://soaps.about.com/cs/fanclubs/
  http://www.fandom.tv/
  http://www.sissyfight.com/
  http://simcity.ea.com/us/guide/

• Using technology to represent or teach about social worlds
  http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rein0012/teaching4.html

• Designing webquests
  http://www.teacherweb.com/
  http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/
  http://www.immex.ucla.edu/

• Search tools
  google/teoma.com

• Inquiry Project: Catherine Called Birdie
  http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/cimpullitti/webquest.html