Tag Archives: T-GEM

Authentic Scientific Inquiry via GLOBE and Virtual Worlds

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Dave Horn

Ecological factors and relations are both explicit and implicit components of many high school science courses, but are often explored in manner disconnected from the authentic experiences and tangible data. In response to this problem, GLOBE represents a resource around … Continue reading →

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Developing an Understanding of Electronegativity via T-GEM

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Dave Horn

Thoughts on T-GEM: Khan (2007) identified model-based inquiry as a "dyanmic, recursive process of learning by changing one’s mental models while inquiring about phenomena." GEM was a pattern of teacher-student interactions noticed during a study of model-based inquiry in the … Continue reading →

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