Chapter 2: Spilling of Old Knowledge onto New Ways of Learning
A "years-old" favorite environmental classroom activity was transformed by the author's 5-year old students into a 21st century STEM investigation.
"I must admit that I was a skeptic when first faced with the enormous task of creating a lesson for my high-performing kindergarten class using inquiry-based instruction…Okay, I could provide the environment and the questions, but I still didn’t think kindergartners could manage a scientific inquiry…I knew they would be able to understand observation, but developing a research question and constructing a hypothesis? I’d seen a room full of educators having difficulty constructing a hypothesis, and now kindergartners were being asked to do this? You will see how a bunch of 5-year-olds proved me wrong!"
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Watch the Video
View video featuring Chapter 4 author Wendy Gonsalves’s third grade students reflecting on their use of the RIP® to learn science and other standards-based content.
