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Personal Inquiry: Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across Formal and Informal
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Learning Science Research Institute
Introduction – main objective
• “The main objective is to design new educational methods of scripted inquiry learning, implemented across devices including personal mobile technologies and shared classroom displays, and to evaluate their effectiveness in helping young people aged 11-14 to understand themselves and their world through a process of active scientific inquiry across formal and informal settings.”
Partnerships
• Open University, MK– Oakgrove School
• University of Nottingham– Hadden Park High School
• We ran 3 set of trials – themes: “myself” & “my community”, – for the last trials we swapped themes.
• Find my topic• Decide my inquiry question or hypothesis• Plan my methods, equipment & actions• Collect my evidence• Analyse and represent my evidence• Respond to my question or hypothesis• Communicate my inquiry• Reflect on my progress
Personal Inquiry process
Research question
Observe
Analyse
Present
Conclude
Predict
topic
hypothesize
plan
collect analyse
respond
communicate
reflect
February 2008
Heart rate & fitness
February 2008: heart rate & fitness
Inquiry Question:Is there a relationship
between heart rate and fitness?
November 2008
How healthy is our diet?
Pupils to understand where they are in the inquiry process
Overall objective
Nov 2008: Technology
• Asus running the PI toolkit
• Camera to keep a food diary
Data collection• To be able to reflect on
data collected by their group on food observations
• To be able to consider the answers from the expert and ask any further appropriate questions
My Analysis, My conclusions• Compare their nutrients intake
with the RNI, in a bar chart• To make valid comments about
the data collected: personally and for the group
• To recognise a healthy and less healthy diet from nutritional information in bar chart
• To use a model for their own conclusions
November 2009
Does noise pollution affect birds’ eating habits?
Attenborough fieldtrip
School study
Bird feeders
Screenshots
Garden experiment
Bird feeders
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