Why Are School Buses Always Yellow?: Teaching for Inquiry, Prek-5

Deepen young students' natural curiosity and strengthen questioning and thinking skills!

Discover how to use the inquiry process to teach mandated content in preschool and primary classrooms while making learning relevant and lasting for young children, including learners with special needs. The author uses real classroom examples, provides prompts for framing good questions, offers recommendations for Internet resources, and provides techniques to:

Introduce inquiry incrementally and systematically Use objects, literature, and students' experiences to stimulate inquiry Help children turn their playful wonderings into deeper questions about content Develop inquiry-based units that incorporate students' queries

• Author
• John Barell

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 202

• Publisher
• Corwin Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781412957335

• Genres
• education

• Release date
• 2007