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INQUISITORY PRESENTATION (Questioning)

Inquisitory Presentation is based on questioning strategies to engage students in discovering rules and relationships. It is shifting the role of the teacher from presenting subject matter to activating conversation with the students to encourage them to discover the answers. The key role of the teacher is to coach the students by questioning, providing context to the subject area and drawing upon prior and prerequisite knowledge, giving feedback, and providing help.

Definition / Attributes: Inquisitory Presentation

Inquisitory Presentation is a questioning and conversational teaching strategy where the students are required to discover the rules of generalities of subject matter. Students discover the generalities of the subject on the basis of practice examples. Feedback (correct generalities and instances) and elaboration (help, prerequisites, and context) are provided to students during this inquiry. These include pictorial relationships, application of the rules, context through historical information, and prerequisite information.

How can the World Wide Web support . . . Inquisitory Presentation?

Students find World Wide Web sites that define the rules of the subject area, including pictures, graphics, text elaborations, simulations, video clips, etc.
Students find sites that are supporting examples of rules generated.

Lesson Component Reflection Questions (Use these questions to note ideas on how to use Inquisitory Presentation for a component of your lesson.)

Learning outcomes: (What will the students be expected to discover as a result of this lesson?)

Lesson description: (How, using Inquisitory Presentation, will the lesson facilitate the learning outcomes?)

Web resources: (What types of web resources will support the presentation strategy and learning outcomes?)

INQUISITORY PRESENTATION (Questioning) Web sites that describe, provide examples of, and demonstrate how to use the WWW with Inquisitory Presentation.

Why does Inquisitory Presentation enhance instruction?

Instruction is more effective when it contains presentation followed by examples and practice. The Component Display Theory (Merrill) provides a theoretical framework for the rational supporting Inquisitory Presentation.

Discovery Learning: The task of the student is to figure out the meaning of what is to be learned. The student must add up observations and inferences, make comparisons, and interpret data to create a new insight they have not known before.

http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/merrill.html

http://www.hood-consulting.com/amazing/discovery/discovery.html

How can I replicate Inquisitory Presentation lessons using existing Web resources?

Existing Lesson Plan to help students discover how sound is made. It consists of a series of inquiry questions followed by discovery activities building on the principle of sound waves.

This is an existing Lesson Plan available on the WWW:

http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/teach/activity/u3a1.htm

How can I generate my own Inquisitory Presentation lessons using Web resources?

Teacher creates lesson plan on how and why volcanoes erupt. A component of this lesson is to get the students to discover the mechanism that cause the phenomena. To enhance this lesson with Web resources:

Have students review the Pinatubo volcano site and conduct a brief question / answer session on volcanoes,
Work with students to generate a list of questions about volcanoes,
Send students to find other Web sites which trigger additional questions, provide answers to the questions, and supporting examples (pictures, video clips, explanation) of the rules.

These are examples of informational Web sites that could be used as a part of a Lesson Plan to trigger student questions and discovery learning:

http://www.expo.edu.ph/pinatubo/page4.html

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

What are other ideas of using Web resources for Inquisitory Presentation activities?

Web site that functions as a trigger for discussion about concepts of air and flight.

This is an existing Web site that exemplifies Inquisitory Presentation:

http://www.omsi.edu/sln/air/act/act2/

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