2. Challenge Question Your administrator has spent two weeks in Boston at a conference on Inquiry-based learning this summer. She is mandating that the science department implement inquiry-based learning specifically on the scientific method. She wants your plans by September 15 th. What are your feelings and thoughts?

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4. Help has arrived!! Background information classroom materials Teacher instructions references Meets National Standards Rubrics Formative & Summative Assessments

5. THE GOAL  Students will be able to quantitatively describe how distractions affected their working memory  Communicate and apply the results of their scientific investigation to a real world scenario

6. Suggested order of daily instruction

7. Is right for you & your students? Can be differentiated Student-centered Inquiry based Meets National Standards Based on current & sound neuroscience with

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