New Cornell University research shows that traditional physics labs, which strive to reinforce the concepts students learn in lecture courses, can actually have a negative impact on students. At the ...

Does the thought of student-led inquiry make you nervous? For some teachers, handing over control of the classroom to their students sounds like an invitation for disaster. What’s to stop things from ...

More teachers are turning to inquiry-based instruction to ensure students gain and retain skills for success in college and career. In the second post of our new series, we’re looking at how to use ...

Educators need evidence drawn from research to help them implement and justify inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning science. Many science teachers, for example, question why they should ...

Lloyd Alexander once said, “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from the answer itself.” I love this quote because I’ve witnessed the truth of it ...

Students must be explicitly taught how to evaluate the trustworthiness of digital sites in order to successfully navigate their futures as citizens of the world. Many students are not good at ...