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Nine Thousand Straws Teaching Thinking Through Open-Inquiry Learning
Jean Sausele Knodt
Book Code: TIP8640
ISBN: 1-59158-640-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-640-1
340 pages, photos
Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 7/30/2008
List Price: $30.00 (UK Sterling Price: £16.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
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Description: Many educators seek viable instructional formats that will provide open thinking experiences for children. Additionally, they search for directions that connect thinking skills and dispositions to all learning, and that enhance the task of meeting curriculum content requirements and standards.

Based on nine years of design, research, and open-inquiry lab teaching experience with over 600 children annually, Nine Thousand Straws presents an inquiry instructional approach that engages the inquisitive energy children naturally bring to the learning table. It offers practical methods and concrete guidance that will enable you to open, employ, and guide this energy towards developing productive and globally applicable thinking skills and dispositions. Along with a full review of objectives and foundational theories, the book presents thirty-three hands-on projects, and thirty-three "Focus Theme" discussions. The Appendix presents sixty-six additional inquiry project possibilities. It also guides various application formats, from individual teachers developing lab time in their own classrooms to specialists establishing centralized labs in their schools, children's hospitals, or community centers.
LC Card Number: 2008010436
LCC Class: LB1027
Dewey Class: 371
PDF Catalogs:
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
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