Book chapter
Inquiry-based teaching and learning in Primary STEM
STEM Education in Primary Classrooms: Unravelling Contemporary Approaches in Australia and New Zealand, pp.28-44
Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group
2020
Abstract
This chapter describes the evolution of an inquiry-based activity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), Ball of Fear, that was developed and used in a primary classroom setting and then further developed as an inquiry-based activity in a first-year university context with pre-service teachers enrolled in a science content unit. Inquiry-based teaching and learning in primary STEM is well aligned with modern learning theory, allowing an in-depth exploration of the nature, principles and concepts of STEM disciplines. Because cooperative groups ranging from two to five members are prevalent in primary STEM and ‘almost all inquiry-learning approaches make use of group work’, the chapter highlights cooperative inquiry-based teaching and learning in primary STEM. High-level interactions among the students in the cooperative groups occurred without explicitly teaching inquiry or cooperative skills, which supports the rationale for including inquiry-based activities in primary STEM.
Details
- Title
- Inquiry-based teaching and learning in Primary STEM
- Authors/Creators
- A. Woods-McConney (Author/Creator)A. McConney (Author/Creator)K. Sturrock (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- A. Fitzgerald (Editor)C. Haeusler (Editor)L. Pfeiffer (Editor)
- Publication Details
- STEM Education in Primary Classrooms: Unravelling Contemporary Approaches in Australia and New Zealand, pp.28-44
- Publisher
- Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005542342007891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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