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e-Learning for Educators - Science 2.0: Using Web Tools to Promote Inquiry-Based Science
This course is offered as a part of the e-Learning for Educators project, a partnership between LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, UNC-TV, DPI, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018.
This course is part of LEARN NC's catalog of online courses for teachers. Please see the current offerings at the bottom of this page for information about when it may next be taught.
Use online resources to enhance inquiry-based teaching and learning in your science course. Over the course of this workshop you'll familiarize yourself with science-themed websites, online collaborative projects, science blogs and wikis, and the mapping applications Google Maps and Google Earth.
Science 2.0: Using Web Tools to Promote Inquiry-Based Science focuses on helping you identify ways to integrate these tools into your practice, and thus enrich your students’ engagement with science content. Promoting scientific inquiry is a central theme, and serves as a lens through which you'll view this course.
Prerequisites
None
Course objectives
You'll consider the issue of assessment, specifically as it relates to inquiry and the use of online tools, later in the course. As a final project, you will develop plans for an inquiry-based science lesson that uses an internet-based data source.
Audience
This course is appropriate for science teachers in grades 7-12.
Time commitment
Approximately 2-5 hours per week
Current offerings
There are no scheduled offerings of this course.
