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= Enquiry Ideas: Investigating my body and how it works = | |||
=Making use of Enquiry Ideas= | |||
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{{activity|stgw| on making use of enquiry ideas|10}} Below are five enquiry ideas (A-E) that could be turned into an enquiry in your class. Please note that these are just ''enquiry ideas'' which means that you need to go through substantial thinking and planning for the ideas to be introduced in a lesson to engage students in their own enquiry. It may be that you do not find some of the ideas useful at all, in which case you are welcome to come up with your own enquiry ideas to discuss as a group. | |||
Divide yourself into groups of three or four teachers. You should read through all the enquiry ideas and eventually pick one or two ideas for the group activity that you will be working on together in this session and in the next two weeks. As you are reading through these ideas, think about the following: | |||
#Are the ideas interesting and engaging for my students? | |||
#Are the ideas relevant to the curriculum? What subject will it be most relevant to introduce them to? | |||
#What can be an appropriate lesson objective(s) if you do make use of the enquiry ideas? | |||
#What kind of resources will you need and are they easily accessible to you and your students? | |||
#How will you introduce the ideas in the first lesson (recall what are some of the ways to present your questions that you have learnt in the previous session) and how many lessons do you think you will need to complete the enquiry process? | |||
== Enquiry Ideas: Investigating my body and how it works == | |||
Children are naturally curious about how their bodies work so this is a rich area to draw on for enquiry ideas. A simple and straight forward enquiry into pulse rate and how it varies with exercise requires minimal equipment, just a stopwatch (or a clock with a second hand) and some accurate counting. Students can come up with different types of exercise such as running on the spot/sprinting/going up and down stairs and see how these affect their pulse rate. They could also look at whether or not their pulse rate is different when they are lying down. | Children are naturally curious about how their bodies work so this is a rich area to draw on for enquiry ideas. A simple and straight forward enquiry into pulse rate and how it varies with exercise requires minimal equipment, just a stopwatch (or a clock with a second hand) and some accurate counting. Students can come up with different types of exercise such as running on the spot/sprinting/going up and down stairs and see how these affect their pulse rate. They could also look at whether or not their pulse rate is different when they are lying down. | ||
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For more ideas, see [[OER4Schools/Starting_the_enquiry_based_learning_process|Starting the enquiry based learning process]]. | |||
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