Inquiry Driven Learning for High School Environmental Science
Location
Atrium
Session Format
Poster Presentation
Research Area Topic:
MBI - Molecular Biology Initiative
Abstract
The Georgia Southern University's Molecular Biology Initiative is an NSF funded, Gk-12 STEM program that places graduate student fellows in high school classrooms throughout Bulloch and neighboring counties. Formy fellowship, I am paired with a partner teacher at Portal Middle High School in Portal, Georgia where I serve as a content expert, bringing interactive lessons to the classroom once a weekly. My partner teacher and I have created a teaching module that focuses on using student inquiry within laboratory activities to maximize student learning and engagement. This module uses several adapted activities to encourage more inquiry dependent conclusions from students. Two new inquiry based activities are also incorporated into the module to further expand the growing database of MBI tested classroom activities. The module activities cover a variety of topics including convection currents, nuclear energy, solar energy, hydrogen fuel cells, and biogas generation. This module is applicable to Georgia Environmental Science Standards and was utilized in two environmental science classes consisting of 11th and 12th grade students.
Keywords
Education, MBI, Environmental science
Presentation Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Start Date
4-24-2015 2:45 PM
End Date
4-24-2015 4:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Moore, Leslie Dean and Garcia, Alicia, "Inquiry Driven Learning for High School Environmental Science" (2015). GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium. 116.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/research_symposium/2015/2015/116
Inquiry Driven Learning for High School Environmental Science
Atrium
The Georgia Southern University's Molecular Biology Initiative is an NSF funded, Gk-12 STEM program that places graduate student fellows in high school classrooms throughout Bulloch and neighboring counties. Formy fellowship, I am paired with a partner teacher at Portal Middle High School in Portal, Georgia where I serve as a content expert, bringing interactive lessons to the classroom once a weekly. My partner teacher and I have created a teaching module that focuses on using student inquiry within laboratory activities to maximize student learning and engagement. This module uses several adapted activities to encourage more inquiry dependent conclusions from students. Two new inquiry based activities are also incorporated into the module to further expand the growing database of MBI tested classroom activities. The module activities cover a variety of topics including convection currents, nuclear energy, solar energy, hydrogen fuel cells, and biogas generation. This module is applicable to Georgia Environmental Science Standards and was utilized in two environmental science classes consisting of 11th and 12th grade students.
