Welcome to the Big Shoulders Fund

Literacy-Inquiry Teaching Workshop

Rocket Challange1. Build a rocket system

2. Adjust variables until the rocket reaches “outer space” (One meter)

3. The team that reaches outer space with the most valuable

payload, WINS!

No one in the classroom learns more

than the individual teaching the class

for the first time.

Teaching and learning are not synonymous.

We can teach, and teach well,without having students learn.

Knowledge is seldom transferred intact from the mind of the teacher

to the mind of the student.

Useful knowledge is never transferred intact.

Knowledge is CONSTRUCTEDin the mind of the learner.

Mother : Daughter :: Father : ___

Cousin Uncle Son Aunt

Ruby : Emerald :: Tomato : ___

Rose Onion Peach Lettuce

OK : KS :: PA : ___

CT NY AZ WV

Inductile : Indomitable :: Sejant : _____

Reticent Remarkable Sojourning Sitting

I can’t teach ______You may be able to.

My goal is not to teach_____;My goal is to facilitate learning.

ObservationProblemHypothesis

ExperimentConclusion

Prediction

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you

have.

CLASS MOTTO

The best way to get a good idea

is to get a lot of ideas.

I Discover

I Think

I Try

I Record

I Wonder

I ObserveObservation

Problem

Hypothesis

Experiment

Conclusion

DoingInquiry

ObservationProblemHypothesis

ExperimentConclusion

Prediction

Which one is LEAST like the other four ?

Artist

Golfer

Dancer

Newscaster

Mechanic

Remembering

Remembering is pulling facts out of your file cabinet.

Remembering

The names of seven states in the United States contain the consecutive letters “AS”

Remember them.

Remembering

The names of six states in the United States contain the consecutive letters “IS”

Remember them.

Thinking

Thinking involves building a new construction from facts that are already in your file cabinet.

Finish the Sequence

Know What Your Objective Is

The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

• William James, Psychologist

I’d rather know some of the questions than all of the answers.

• James Thurber, Humorist

What comes next in this sequence ?

BLUE : STRAW :: RASP : ______

YELLOW HAY BLACK BERRY

Write a secret number 1 - 9Circle the number so you don’t forget the number.

Multiply your secret number by 3

Add one to this product

Multiply this sum by 3

Add your secret number to this product

Assigning Pennies

Place a penny on any number on the star.You must move the penny in a straight line,two numbers.

The object of this problem is to get as many pennieson the star as possible.

You may jump a penny as long as you start on an empty number and end on an empty number.

Finish the Sequence

WHICH ONE DOES NOT BELONG ?

difference

product

quotient

addend

sum