Inq-ITS Blog

Yesterday I was in my yard planting my fall bulbs so I will have flowers in the Spring. My neighbor came to tell me that I needed to pour...

Starting off a new year is always exciting and a bit nerve wracking. At Inq-ITS, we want to make the transition as smooth as possible....

As a teacher and a mother I am in the continual pursuit of the happy place where I provide a challenge that doesn’t result in temper...

The only certainty for the 2021-22 school year is that we should expect the unexpected. The Inq-ITS project started in 2007 in Dr....

Starting off a new school year is always a journey where the destination is a bit of a mystery. Add in a global pandemic and educators...

Due to the impact of the coronavirus on education, districts all over the country have been given funds from the federal government...

The pandemic interrupted in-person learning and forced schools to find alternative ways to strengthen students’ science inquiry...

I began my teaching career shortly after the release of Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 2000). It was an...

When starting Inq-ITS with a class, we highly recommend beginning with one of our tutorial labs! Our tutorials are either qualitative...

When academics started using the term STEM I hopped on the bandwagon so fast I could have left my shoes behind in the process. My own...

Living in the Pacific Northwest means that every few years the local media will focus on the possibility of “The Big One”. Oregon and...

For years science textbooks listed the definition of a Hypothesis as an ‘educated guess’. We know that while an ‘educated guess’ is not...

We will be joining the 8th Annual ED Games Expo! Hosted June 1st to the 5th, 2021: the expo is both virtual AND free! Inq-ITS is...

When I first read the term ‘developing and using models’ I was incredibly excited, finally, the standards are being changed to more...

Throughout my teaching career, it has been my goal to give my students as many opportunities as possible to conduct investigations in...

Oh, Bloom, why do you haunt me? I’m sure that the world of science teaching was easier when you could just pop on a movie, hand the kids...