Lessons using crime scene investigation-like activities catch and hold interest. Students acting as detectives practice the qualities it takes to solve problems. Do your students know how to follow evidence? Encourage a sense of humor and adventure using evidence-based discrepant event inquiry lessons.
Just as the CSI TV show is recognized as the most popular dramatic series worldwide, with over 73.8 million viewers, so controls student interest in evidence-based, discrepant event inquiry lessons. INQUIRY ALIVE offers a detailed plan: turn average lessons into astonishing project-based, evidence-based, inquiry lessons through discrepant events.
MINDTRONICS contains 100+ lessons ready to use today. When learning comes from an unexplained account (discrepant event story) brought to light through gathering more details, debate, questioning, clarification, and brainstorming, it lights a fire. Then learners favor deeper topic understanding; they discover how to follow discerning clues. Clues and ambiguity drive the momentum to solve a discrepancy.
Cognitive Dissonance and Agreement. The books' examples and exercises help students commit to and welcome inquiry learning. The lessons in MINDTRONICS help students quickly evolve from low diagnostic thinking efficiency to execute highly specific critical thinking tasks.
Using resources, cooperative ideas, and supportive analysis students go from assumptions, to data explanations, to insight, to conclusions. The cognitive dissonance and agreement turn the seemingly dull scientific method into exciting, clearly defined ways to apply the inquiry of events and issues found in nearly any topic. The judicious, yet student-centered methods of learning, in the two books, help teachers and students bring Life to the most arcane of events or issues.
YES! Non-reading students can work Inquiry evidence! Students examine, consider, and probe, when given evidence-based, discrepant event information. Students also form views and enjoy trying to discover more about the practical details of each discrepant event.
Therapy. By using the interactive cognitive methods students shape and sharpen their organized thought. Students' carry familiar ways to explore information; that knowledge, added to the group teamwork to gather scientific investigation, brings a self-awareness and self-belief much akin to the group therapy given to at-risk children and adults.
Although non-reading students may need the teacher to read the discrepant events and fact sheets, the students weigh their own theories and other student theories. Students flex their muscle on how to question.
Questioning increases choices. Choices build reliable knowledge, given and found. Then students support the most promising logic offered by applying what they've learned.