Changing Emphases to Promote Inquiry
| Less Emphasis on | More Emphasis on | What we are doing |
| Activites that demonstrate and verify content | Activities that
investigate
and analyze science content |  |
| Getting an answer | Using evidence and strategies for developing or
revising
an explanation | |
| Science as memorization of vocabulary | Science as argument and
explanation
| |
| Providing answers to questions about science content | Communicating
scientific explanations | |
| Individuals and groups of students analyzing and synthesizing data without
defending a conclusion | Groups of students analyzing and synthesizing
data and defending conclusions | |
| Concluding inquiries with the result of the experiment | Applying the
results
of experiments to scientific arguments and explanations | |
| Private communication of students' ideas and conclusions to teacher |
Public communication of students' ideas and work to classmates | |