By allowing students the opportunity to collect raw data, make observations, question, reason and critically analyse, I feel we are bringing real science into the class. To begin, students’ prior knowledge regarding the topics that will be the focus of the inquiry project are assessed and tabulated. To streamline this tabulation and information gathering, the services of www.pollanywhere.com was used.
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