Identify a grade level at which you might teach. Pick a topic you might teach at that grade level, and explain how you might teach it through discovery learning or inquiry learning. In your explanation, incorporate at least three strategies that the textbook recommends for these approaches to instruction

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The response should include a specific grade level and a specific topic to be taught at that level. It should describe how that topic might be taught using discovery or inquiry learning in sufficiently concrete terms that you have a fairly good idea of what would occur during the lesson. Although students' responses are apt to vary considerably, their approaches should incorporate at least three of the following ideas:
• Identify a topic that lends itself to a discovery-learning or inquiry-learning approach.
• Make sure students have the necessary prior knowledge for discovering new ideas and principles.
• Show puzzling results to arouse curiosity.
• Structure and guide a discovery session so that students proceed logically toward discoveries you want them to make.
• Have students record their findings.
• Help students relate their findings to concepts and principles in the academic discipline they are studying.