Fifth feature of Inquiry

Learns communicate and justify their proposed explanations.

1) Summary - Students, acting as scientists, can communicate their results to classmates through questioning, observation, discussion, and discovery of their results.

2) Elaborate - In several different ways, students can show and communicate their results by using prior scientific knowledge and new observations, allowing for discussion. They can represent their results and experiment in a clear way so that it can be reproduced. Through this, a student community is formed. Being able to elaborate, add, and compare to each others' results forms a fuller, more complete inquiry experience.

3) "Looks" like in class - Sense of a welcoming, team, open environment. All students get the opportunity to communicate their observations and results. Students collaborate and work together by using different methods of presentation and communication. Everyone is partcipating and is included, and is student-led with teacher direction.

4) Video lesson - In introduction of lesson, students share ideas with each other when the teacher tells them to "whisper to their neighbor." Throughout the experiment, students were working together and communicating their discoveries. They were allowed to discuss among themselves throughout the lesson.