Scientific Inquiry

Catalog description

This course explores Science as a discipline, including the scientific method, scientific research, and writing conventions in the sciences. Scientific Inquiry includes the teaching and learning of the life sciences, as well as earth and space sciences, in K-8th grade classrooms. Students will examine best practices in scientific teaching and learning through hands-on experiments, problem solving, and open-ended questions. GE Categories: Thinking and Quantitative Reasoning, Development, Education and Pedagogy, Science and Engineering. (Previously Integrated Sciences). Corequisites: SI 103, SI 106