Training Material

Day 1

• Introduction

• Comparing Approaches to hands-on science

For more thah thirty years, the Exploratorium institute for inquiry has been educating taechers, administrators, and professiona developers about the theory and practice of inquiry-based teaching and learning. We have witnessed firsthand the power of science coming aliveand having real meaning for students and teachers when they focus on the questions of science, rather than just the answers...

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• Inquiry Based science

Good science education requires both learning scientific concepts and developing scientific thinking skills. Inquiry is an approach to learning that involves a process of exploring the natural or material world, and that leads to asking questions, making discoveries, and testing those discoveries in the search for new understanding. Inquiry, as it relates to science education, should mirror as closely as possible the enterprise of doing real science...

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Day 2

• Connecticut Invention Convention

• How to create an Invention

How do you use creative problem solving to go from problem to invention idea?

• Inventive Thinking

Since the early 1980s, the US patent and Trademark office has been working inconcert with the federal agencies, corporations and associations to bring into national focus a number of grassroots school programs promoting thinking skills instruction. As a result of that effort, project XI was initiated in1985 as a national partnerhip designed to encourage proliferation of such programs and materials which will promote critical and creative and problem-solving skills for all children in our nation's school...

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