anno Four Types of nquiry| Jonesin’ for Chemisty Jonesin’ for Chemistry Yoo Senge Sh ‘The quick fix for chemistry teachers Four Types of Inquiry I came across this great article in International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education titled “Facilitating Chemistry Teachers to Implement Inquiry-Based Laboratory Work” (2007, 6: 107 - 130). Basically, Dr. Derek Cheung implemented inquiry labs into seven classrooms in Hong Kong. Cheung, a Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, inserviced the teachers on inquiry and met several times with them throughout the research. My goal next semester is to implement POGIL activities, inquiry lab work, and practical tests. Ihave focused by reading on POGIL and I felt that this would be a great source for inquiry labs. It was! I wanted to share some of the major points of the article. ‘There are four levels of inquiry: 1. Confirmation Inquiry — verifying concepts by following a procedure 2. Structured Inquiry — following a procedure to find an answer 3. Guided Inquiry - Teacher provides a question, students design an experiment to find answer 4, Open Inquiry — Students ask the question, then find the answer Cheung recommends that most of class time should be spent in guided inquiry. This also fits with the POGIL approach, but focusing on the laboratory. He then gives six criteria for implementing these labs: The laboratory work should be designed asa guided inquiry rather than an open inquiry The guided inquiry must engage students in solving real-world problems The solution to the guided inquiry should not be predictable ‘The teacher should require a few groups of students to present their experimental plan orally so that a feasible procedure for collecting data can result from a consensus approach Teacher questioning is critically important during student oral presentations Assessmesnt criteria must be given to students in advance KONE an I think these two lists provide a decent framework for creating an inquiry based chemistry classroom. I hope to focus my classroom within the structured inquiry and guided inquiry bands. However, [hope to implement one or two open inquiry labs nttpsiicharist jones werdprass.comZ00001/02fou-ypes-oFnguity 12 oe :wenot9 Four Types ofingury| Jonesin’ for Chemistry {also found some other good information from Dr. Cheung, concerning inquiry lab examples and multiple choice assessments. © Dr. Derek Cheung’s website ~ http://www. fed.cuhk.edu.hk/staff/céi spcheung html hk 5 © Inquiry Labs — http; fed. files/Derekt ° Guidelines for multiple choice tests— htt //www3.fed,cuhk edu hk/chemistry/files/chemme,paf What type of labs do you do in your classroom? Share them here! Explore posts in the same categories: Uncategoriseetismenis This entry was posted on 01/02/2009 at 9:24 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. Tags: Chemistry, Education, Inquiry Labs, POGIL, Secondary Education Both comments and pings are currently closed. Create a free at WordP, bitos:cheristrjones wordpress. com20090 102" -ypes-otinquiny 22