Inquiry at the Window: Pursuing the Wonders of Learners

by David J. Whitin and Phyllis Whitin

Book Overview

It is a commonplace occurrence: a group of students gathers at the classroom window, watching the activities of birds and sharing their informal observations. But for Phyllis Whitin, her class, and her collaborator, David Whitin, what began as a common event grew into an uncommon journey of shared wonder and discovery. On one level, Inquiry at the Window is the story of an elementary classroom's yearlong study of birds. But it is also the story of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435071319
• ISBN13: 9780435071318
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

The Thoughts of children

This book is a very interesting book that i just enjoyed reading. it helped me realize a lot in how children use their minds and how one little experiment can go along way with teaching them their reading and writing skills. most kids that age want to be the best one in class in everything, and as they kept challenging themselves, they kept getting better at their inquiry skills. i recommend this book to any teacher out there that may seem to be looking for an experiment to try or get some ideas on how to get the children to become better in their writing and listenign skills.