IX. Teacher presentation

The teacher's presentation in inquiry-based learning must be one that presents questions to the students. This can be best achieved through an interesting presentation that requires students to actively and fully participate in that which is being presented by the teacher. Capturing the classroom attention in this activity may be easily accomplished through filling a basket or box with oddities relating to earth science and to one-by-one pull them out of the container and lay them on the object being used for the presentation (i.e. teacher's desk, table, etc.) and to then ask the students what the object is allowing the students to guess, discuss and debate, and then providing the correct answer. But this is not the only question asked as the answer leads to more questions. For example: The teacher removes a conch shell from the basket holding the mystery items. The students guess and...
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