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Kath Murdoch is an experienced teacher, author, university lecturer and
popular consultant who has worked for many years in schools throughout
Australia, New Zealand, Asia, America and Europe. She is widely respected
for her work in the field of inquiry based learning and integrative
curriculum in which she has taught, researched and published for well over
20 years.

Most aspects of inquiry learning I encounter I tend to agree with, but a few interpretations and methods leave me feeling confused or unconvinced.  I've been pondering inquiry learning trying t

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We pair 10 photos from The Times that we’ve used in our weekly “What’s Going On in This Picture?” with ideas from students and teachers for how you can use them, or images like them, to teach close reading and visual thinking skills.

Experimental electronic musician and inventor Bruce Haack’s compositions expanded many a young consciousness, and taught kids to dance, move, meditate, and to be endlessly curious about the technology of sound.

Students can better understand math and physics problems by acting them out. This type of embodied learning can help open up the mind to abstract concepts.

How do you define "nature?" If we define it as that which is untouched by humans, then we won't have any left, says environmental writer Emma Marris. She urges us to consider a new definition of nature -- one that includes not only pristine wilderness but also the untended patches of plants growing in urban spaces -- and encourages us to bring our children out to touch and tinker with it, so that one day they might love and protect it.

Teaching students how to make inferences and see positive sides of even terrible ideas can help them develop critical thinking skills.

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Finding the Right Moment to Connect As we unpacked the unit 'Where we are in place and time' about how space exploration changes our perspectives, the 2nd graders have shared what they think they know about space. As they continued to find out about space exploration and how our understanding has changed through exploration, they…

  I think we have all had students in our class that "suffer" a bad case of the "can not's". The kids who can't cut that, can't find that, can't put that away, can't get that out. And we are busy, and the class is waiting, so we grab it for them, cut it for…

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein Train your brain to look at situations and problems differ…

This post is cross posted from my personal blog. Graham Baines (aka @PYPChef) shares a great blog post that questions whether the PYP Exhibition should be viewed as an exhibition or an expedition. It raises a great question - one that makes us carefully consider the way in which we name processes. We chat about it informally…

Tch Laureate Crystal Morey asks, "How do you incorporate play into your school day or life beyond school? " as a part of her Getting Better Together series,