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Initially, my students come to science with concepts of boiling beakers and green vapor coming out of test tubes. Yet many also believe that this type of science is only to be watched or enjoyed as a spectator of a show. When I am teaching strategies for inquiry-based science, students quickly become the players, not the spectators! I can put interactive science right into my students' hands with certain materials that will elicit questions and push them for explanations about their science learning. A refrigerator in the science classroom is one of those materials that will allow students to think and question beyond freezing and thawing. Science phenomena is discovered through a student's interaction between materials and the daily focus question. The materials I set out for students to interact with will help students generate their own questions. Perhaps they will begin with measuring the rate of a liquid freezing, then their investigation will push them to think beyond freeze and thaw. Soon they'll be thinking about thermal heat transfer and phases changes! Foundations of science require many specific materials. Choosing a refrigerator as an instructional material has such a broad range of uses in the science classroom. Please help my students go beyond process learning, by helping me teach students to learn by inquiry with the best materials.

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Initially, my students come to science with concepts of boiling beakers and green vapor coming out of test tubes. Yet many also believe that this type of science is only to be watched or enjoyed as a spectator of a show. When I am teaching strategies for inquiry-based science, students quickly become the players, not the spectators! I can put interactive science right into my students' hands with certain materials that will elicit questions and push them for explanations about their science learning. A refrigerator in the science classroom is one of those materials that will allow students to think and question beyond freezing and thawing. Science phenomena is discovered through a student's interaction between materials and the daily focus question. The materials I set out for students to interact with will help students generate their own questions. Perhaps they will begin with measuring the rate of a liquid freezing, then their investigation will push them to think beyond freeze and thaw. Soon they'll be thinking about thermal heat transfer and phases changes! Foundations of science require many specific materials. Choosing a refrigerator as an instructional material has such a broad range of uses in the science classroom. Please help my students go beyond process learning, by helping me teach students to learn by inquiry with the best materials.

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