Jessica Fries-Gaither's List: Science, Literacy, and K-5 Classrooms

This 35-page PDF booklet is dedicated to inquiry – what is it, exactly? Why should we care about it? How does it fit into the teaching and learning of science? Why Does Inquiry Matter? Because that’s what science is all about! This valuable guide teaches us about the fundamentals of inquiry – Inquiry in the Classroom; The Essential Features of Inquiry; The Look of Inquiry; Resources for Learning about Inquiry; and Articles of Interest.

This page from Project RAISSE contains links to a variety of content area articles. In this course, we examined Ebbers' article from the journal Language Arts. Scroll down to find Science Text Sets: Using Various Genres to Promote Literacy and Inquiry.

Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators.

This article discusses the six types of productive questions and provides examples of question stems that can be used with students.

This article discusses the learning cycle.