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Inq-ITS Blog


Jul 14, 20212 min read
Making The Case for Inquiry
I began my teaching career shortly after the release of Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 2000). It was an...


Jun 24, 20212 min read
How can you utilize Baseline Inq-ITS data?
When starting Inq-ITS with a class, we highly recommend beginning with one of our tutorial labs!

Jun 17, 20212 min read
Bring STEM to the classroom via Inq-ITS Digital Labs
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...

Jun 11, 20212 min read
Constructing Explanations
Living in the Pacific Northwest means that every few years the local media will focus on the possibility of “The Big One”. Oregon and...


Jun 3, 20213 min read
Ask Questions & Form Hypotheses
For years science textbooks listed the definition of a Hypothesis as an ‘educated guess’. We know that while an ‘educated guess’ is not...

May 24, 20211 min read
Inq-ITS at the 8th Annual ED Games Expo!
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...


May 20, 20212 min read
Developing and Using Models
When I first read the term ‘developing and using models’ I was incredibly excited, finally, the standards are being changed to more...

May 20, 20212 min read
Planning and Carrying out Investigations
Throughout my teaching career, it has been my goal to give my students as many opportunities as possible to conduct investigations in...

May 20, 20213 min read
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
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...
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