Nine Thousand Straws: Teaching Thinking Through Open-Inquiry Learning
Many educators seek viable instructional formats that will provide open thinking experiences for children. Additionally, they search for directions that connect thinking skills and dispositions to all learning, and that enhance the task of meeting curriculum content requirements and standards.Along with a full review of objectives and foundational theories, the book presents thirty-three hands-on projects, and thirty-three Focus Theme discussions. The Appendix presents sixty-six additional inquiry project possibilities. It also guides various application formats, from individual teachers developing lab time in their own classrooms to specialists establishing centralized labs in their schools, children's hospitals, or community centers"What a wonderful groundwork these children will take into middle school, high school, and beyond. It is of such methods taught in elementary schools that true scholars are made. Every principal will find here actual hands-on material that can be translated to his/her school. This study shows us, step-by-step, ways to employ the boundless energy that children bring to our classrooms as well as known strategies to make them successful."-Catholic Library World"Bottom line: Amazing ideas, creative strategies, and practical tips make this book a candidate for the best professional book list of the year. Get it; read it; try its ideas."-Teacher Librarian"The book would be useful for classroom teachers who wish to create centers."-Library Media Connection