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The Ohio Resource Center (ORC) is offering a 3-day professional development workshop that focuses on the use of inquiry challenges to investigate real-world essential questions. Inquiry challenges provide students with opportunities to investigate standards-based scientific concepts through extended inquiry. Participants will:
  • explore how inquiry fosters the development of 21st-century skills such as creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration
  • experience an inquiry challenge
  • learn about essential and critical questions
  • work in teams to develop an inquiry challenge
  • examine inquiry and the learning cycle through the lens of an inquiry challenge
  • discuss formative and summative assessment of an inquiry challenge
  • learn about ORC’s science features
When and Where
The institute has been cancelled

Cost: $295, payable to OSU-Ohio Resource Center by purchase order or credit card. No refunds will be issued.

iDiscovery Follow-On
A follow-on program is available online through iDiscovery. For the fall (2010) semester, participants earn two fee-waived graduate semester credits in Science Teacher Education from Miami University. Participants may opt for a second semester of online work and earn an additional two fee-waived graduate semester credits in Science Teacher Education. There is a $100 nonrefundable course application fee each semester.

Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the program that indicates the number of professional development hours.
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To ask questions about registration or report problems, please email web@ohiorc.org or call (614) 247-6342.