Music – Inquiry Teaching https://www.inquiry-teaching.com Lesson Plans for Inquiry Based Teaching Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:34:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.inquiry-teaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-inquiry-home-v2-1-32x32.jpg Music – Inquiry Teaching https://www.inquiry-teaching.com 32 32 The Power of Ideas – Database Project https://www.inquiry-teaching.com/lesson/the-power-of-ideas-database-project/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 21:19:32 +0000 https://www.inquiry-teaching.com/?post_type=product&p=5491
  • Subject Areas: Any really, but ideal for History and Social Studies.
  • Materials Required: Virtual classroom or other screen sharing tool, or a large screen display with a computer, plus either printed or digital copies of the provided handouts.
  • Time Needed: Typically two to three class periods.
    • We've included everything you'll need in a single zip archive.]]>     Spreadsheets are perhaps the simplest form of a database and are excellent tools for introducing students to using technology for analysis.  This lesson plan provides an introduction to using databases for a research project about “idea creators” from history; famous artists, scientists, politicians, etc.

    While doing research about these individuals, students will learn about filtering, sorting, and other spreadsheet commands.

    • Subject Areas: Any really, but ideal for History and Social Studies.
    • Materials Required: Virtual classroom or other screen sharing tool, or a large screen display with a computer, plus either printed or digital copies of the provided handouts.
    • Time Needed: Typically two to three class periods.

    We’ve included everything you’ll need in a single zip archive.

    ]]>         The Flowers of Guatemala https://www.inquiry-teaching.com/lesson/the-flowers-of-guatemala/ Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:50:32 +0000 http://www.inquiry-teaching.com/?post_type=product&p=330 Life's Rich Pageant" album to  teach students about making deductive inferences and the limitations of using the Scientific Method with the Social Sciences. Instead of deduction which uses only logic to explain an outcome when all other possibilities have been examined, social scientists must use deductive inference which is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning alone. Much of our study of history is based on inferences with incomplete facts.  Even our understanding of recent history can be made more clear in the future as more information is revealed or discovered through diaries, additional eye witness accounts, and other records. This lesson includes complete procedures and directions and generally runs for an entire class period. Follow up this lesson with our role play and writing assignment lesson "Atlantis."
    • Subject Areas: History, Humanities
    • Materials Required: Soap, water, small clear dish, whiteboard or display, song "The Flowers of Guatemala," and its lyrics.
    • Time Needed: 30 - 40 minutes
    ]]>     This lesson uses the song and lyrics from R.E.M.’s “The Flowers of Guatemala” from their Life’s Rich Pageant” album to  teach students about making deductive inferences and the limitations of using the Scientific Method with the Social Sciences.

    Deduction uses only logic to explain an outcome when all other possibilities have been examined. Instead of this, social scientists must use deductive inference which is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning alone. Much of our study of history is based on inferences with incomplete facts.  Even our understanding of recent history can be made more clear in the future as more information is revealed or discovered through diaries, additional eye witness accounts, and other records.

    This lesson includes complete procedures and directions and generally runs for an entire class period.

    Follow up this lesson with our role play and writing assignment lesson “Atlantis.”

    • Subject Areas: History, Humanities
    • Materials Required: Soap, water, small clear dish, whiteboard or display, song “The Flowers of Guatemala,” and its lyrics.
    • Time Needed: 30 – 40 minutes
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