ORION: Bringing Inquiry into the Classroom

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004dps....36.1315l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #36, #13.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1092

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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ORION (Organizing Research, Inquiry, and Observing Nights) is an effort to bring both science inquiry as well as Space Science content into upper elementary and middle school classrooms in Arizona and Ohio. This 2-year project, supported by an IDEAS grant, trained 18 teachers this past summer and will train an additional 22 teachers next summer.
ORION has created standards-driven and inquiry-based investigations for developing significant understanding of Space Science content that extends across the curriculum. Teachers are given a 6-inch relecting telescope that they assemble, align, and learn how to use for nighttime observations. They are then expected to take these telescopes back to their classrooms and use them with their students, as well as to share their experiences with other teachers in their schools.
The impetus for ORION are the recently-released Arizona and Ohio science standards that emphasize scientific inquiry as well as science content. ORION provides an innovative approach that was developed from the premise that regular and systemic observations of the day and night sky are an important component in the pursuit of personal observations, questions, and inquiry for constructing standards-based understandings. Thus the central purpose guiding the implementation and evaluation of ORION is to infuse regular sky watching by students into the curriculum in ways that lead to full student inquiry into Astronomy and Planetary questions that are developed by students themselves.

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