Inquiry-based Teaching with PBL: 34 Projects

by Jacqui Murray, Ask a Tech Teacher

34 Inquiry-based projects for K-6 that use project-based learning in inquiry activities to teach critical thinking and problem-solving. Each lesson includes an overview, steps, core collaborations, time required, ISTE standards, troubleshooting, and web-based tools to support learning. Lessons are fluid with a focus on publishing and sharing. Reflection is integral to projects. Projects include Talking Pictures, Shape Stroll, Picture the Details, Brainstorming, Life Cycle Reports, Digital Citizenship, Venn Diagrams, Landforms, Avoid Cyberbullying, Tessellations, Twitter in Education, and more.Book includes an introduction with discussions on project-based learning and popular inquiry methodologies like the Socratic Method and the Inquiry-based Classroom.Lesson plans include projects Huge LabsBook reviews by charactersClassify animals like a proDigital PortfoliosGE Literary TourGlogster instead of Postershow to survive on landformsIPad 101prepare for tests with online puzzlemakersScratchTessellationstimelinesVenn DiagramsDigital CitizenshipFormulas in ExcelkeyboardingQR CodesTwitter in Education

109 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2020

About the author

I'm a teacher, writer, mom and dog-lover. I'm the author of a self-help book for teens called Building a Midshipman, the story of my daughter's journey from high school to the United States Naval Academy as well as the Rowe-Delamagente series, thrillers about terrorists, geeks, and world-ending dangers. As a break from non-stop thrills, I write the Man vs. Nature series which follows early humans as they struggle to survive a world where Nature is King and they are nothing more than prey.

I'm also an adjunct professor in tech ed, editor of a K-18 technology curriculum and over one hundred technology training books for K-12, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for TeachHUB, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. You can find my books at my publisher’s website, Structured Learning.

Currently, I'm working on the trilogy Crossroads, next in the Man vs. Nature collection, which should be out next Spring.