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Coaching Field Trip Students in Inquiry
The document discusses strategies for enhancing field trip experiences through coaching students in inquiry-based learning at exhibits. It presents the 'juicy question' and 'hands off' formats as methods to engage students in questioning, investigating, and interpreting results without prior classroom instruction. Results indicate that these approaches can improve inquiry skills and are effective for field trip groups ages 8-10.
Coaching Field Trip Students in Inquiry
- 1. Improving Field TripExperiences: Designing Exhibits, Coaching Students, Engaging Teachers Scott Ewing & Scott Pattison - OMSI Josh Gutwill - Exploratorium Jim Kisiel - Cal State Long Beach
- 2. Coaching Field TripStudents in Inquiry Josh Gutwill Acting Director Exploratorium Visitor Research & Evaluation
- 3. G roup I nquiry by V isitors at E xhibits Josh Gutwill
- 4. Group Inquiry byVisitors at Exhibits Sue Allen Craig Anderson Mark Boccuzzi Fay Dearborn Beth Gardner Josh Gutwill Malia Jackson Adam Klinger Nerissa Kuebrich Suzy Loper Kathy McLean Lisa Sindorf Erin Wilson Josh Gutwill
- 5. Research questions Canwe coach students and chaperones to do Inquiry? Without prior instruction in class? Can we help students work together? Josh Gutwill
- 6. Which Inquiry Skills?Questioning Investigating Explaining Using Evidence Problem solving Reflecting Propose Action Interpret Results Designing Experiment Investigating
- 7. Format: Juicy QuestionGame Play with Exhibit Do the Experiment Brainstorm “ Juicy Questions” Ask more “ Juicy Questions” Interpret Results
- 8. Video clip showinga chaperone facilitating the Juicy Question games through its three main steps of Brainstorming questions, Doing experiments, and Sharing discoveries
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- 10. Pretest Exhibit JuicyQuestion (2 exhibits) Post-test Exhibit Josh Gutwill Juicy Question (2 exhibits) Control A (2 exhibits) Control B (2 exhibits)
- 11. Another Game: HandsOff Propose Plan Interpret Results Call “Hands Off” anytime Individual and Spontaneous Josh Gutwill
- 12. Pretest Exhibit JuicyQuestion (2 exhibits) Post-test Exhibit Control A (2 exhibits) Hands Off (2 exhibits) Control B (2 exhibits) Josh Gutwill
- 13. Results What’s yourhunch? Juicy Question is best Hands Off is best No Differences Josh Gutwill
- 14. Proposing Actions JoshGutwill
- 15. Proposing Actions JoshGutwill
- 16. Proposing Actions JoshGutwill
- 17. Proposing Actions JoshGutwill
- 18. Interpreting Results JoshGutwill
- 19. Interpreting Results JoshGutwill
- 20. Interpreting Results JoshGutwill
- 21. Interpreting Results JoshGutwill
- 22. Linked Investigations JoshGutwill
- 23. Linked Investigations JoshGutwill
- 24. Linked Investigations JoshGutwill
- 25. Linked Investigations JoshGutwill
- 26. Conclusions led tobetter inquiry learnable in ~20 mins memorable format worked for field trip groups (8-10 yrs) Juicy Question: www.exploratorium.edu/partner/give Starting to try it on the floor Josh Gutwill
Editor's Notes
- #2 Welcome to this session, called…. ; I’m Josh…. How to make FT experiences more engaging, educational, and integrated w schl 3 strategies for improving museum field trips, & Rsch & Eval studies Scott and Scott OMSI: Project for facilitation-friendly exhibits Me: Project to teach students’ inquiry skills use at any exhibit Jim Cal State LB: Understand teachers’ prior experiences and expectations
- #3 Improving field trips by coaching students in doing inquiry at exhibits FT literature …. Educational FTs Need to strike a balance between structure and self-driven learning Teaching Inquiry skills - essentially helping students ask and answer their own Qs - may lie at sweet spot
- #4 The project I’ll be talking about is
- #5 Sue Allen and I gave a presentation at VSA in 2007 about project - Family groups Today, I want to talk about our work with Students and Chaperones visiting on FT
- #6 Two skills were…
- #7 Could lose this slide and talk about the skills in the context of JQ
- #8 How should we teach those skills? Used the same format we developed for family groups: JQ
- #10 This is the lab, with the 4 exhibits
- #12 Worried that JQ was too schooley As with families, also taught some FT groups Hands Off
- #15 JQ increases
- #16 JQ increases
- #17 HO not diff from control
- #18 JQ outperforms HO (not control)
- #22 JQ outperforms all
- #25 HO not diff
- #26 JQ > ET
- #27 Seems like it hits the sweet spot For more info, incl more videos and results, check out our website