Lab Arts Exam

FINAL EXAMINATION
IN
LABORATORY ARTS
Submitted by:
PHILLIP ARMAND G. LAJOM

MaEd1- Gen. Sci 1
Submitted to:
EMILIA C. JOSON
Graduate Faculty Professor
1. In the 21st Century teaching and learning, what is the
importance of Scientific Inquiry in today’s generation of
students?
In the 21st Century teaching and learning, scientific inquiry or

inquiry process serves as a practical way to approach science for
every learner. In science, it is important to investigate phenomena
or certain questions that will give answers through scientific
method. Therefore, the inquiry method is connected which is an
essential step in scientific discovery.
Inquiry-based science challenges student’s thinking by engaging the

learner in investigating scientifically oriented questions where every
learner give priority to evidence, evaluate explanations in the light
of alternative explanations and learn to communicate and justify
their decisions.
In an inquiry-based classroom, students aren't waiting for the

teacher or someone else to provide an answer — instead, they are
actively seeking solutions, designing investigations, and asking new
questions. Students quickly see the cycle of learning and that
learning has cycles. Students learn to think and problem solve.
They learn that there is no one place or one resource for answers,
but that many tools are useful for exploring problems. Students
actively involved in making observations, collecting and analyzing
information, synthesizing information, and drawing conclusions are
developing useful problem-solving skills. These skills can be applied
to future "need to know" situations that students will encounter
both at school and at work.
2. There are four Inquiry- Based Teaching Strategies. These are

STRUCTURED, CONTROLLED, GUIDED and FREE inquiry.
Which of these was commonly used in the teaching
demonstrations we had in class? Explain briefly.
Based on my observation during our demonstrations we had in

class, controlled and structured strategies were the commonly
used in the teaching demonstrations. In controlled strategy, most
of us provide the context of the lessons as well as starting ideas. In
our activity that we had provided, we let the students to design
their own ideas which are necessary in scientific based inquiry.
On the other hand, we had also used structured strategies in which

we lead the students as they work through the process as a class
together.
3. If you were to suggest, how can science teachers better
facilitate science instruction in order to boost student’s
achievements?
Science teachers can better facilitate science instruction in order to

boost student’s achievements through the following ways or
methods:
 Encourage inquiry in the existing lessons to focus on the

nature of conversation in classroom.
 For inquiry to be successful, the classroom needs to be shift

from a teacher-centered to student-centered environment,
whereby students contribute to the questioning and
generating hypotheses.
 Encourage the students to build on each others ideas by

probing, “How do we know that? This process helps students
develop the habits of mind or attitudes of scientific thinking
 While students are engaged in learning about the natural

world and the scientific principles needed to understand it,
teachers are working with their colleagues to expand their
knowledge about science teaching.
4. Rate yourself from1-5 on how well you understand scientific

inquiry. Support you answer.
On a scale of 1-5, I would rate myself to the score of 5. At first,

since I am a new science teacher in the field of education, I find it
challenging to engage my students in the process of scientific
inquiry. To be honest, I don’t have a good understanding or idea of
what it is. But now, I learned a lot from this subject. Based from my
classroom experience, sometimes I have the tendency to answer my
own questions or to ask questions that require simple, one-word
answers or applying the traditional method of teaching. Instead, I
realized that as teachers, we should ask thoughtful, open-ended
questions that stimulate discussion and build in complexity. When
students have to answer these types of questions, they are engaging
in scientific inquiry.
One of my previous ideas about inquiry was that it consisted mainly

of doing laboratory activities. I discovered that, although labs can
aid in the process of sense-making, they often don’t because they
are either “cookbook” (they don’t allow the students to make choices
or judgments) or “confirmatory” (they follow lectures or students’
reading). What I have realized is that the essence of inquiry does
not lie in any elaborate, equipment-intensive laboratory exercise. It
lies, rather, in the interactions between the student and the
materials, as well as in the teacher-student and student-student
interactions that occur dozens of times each and every class period.
Inquiry-based teaching focuses on moving students beyond general

curiosity into the realms of critical thinking and understanding. We
must encourage students to ask questions and support them
through the investigation process, understanding when to begin
and how to structure an inquiry activity. Because students may
not be familiar with inquiry-based learning, our active participation
through demonstration in an inquiry activity is highly
recommended.

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FINAL EXAMINATION

PHILLIP ARMAND G. LAJOM

In the 21st Century teaching and learning, scientific inquiry or

Inquiry-based science challenges student’s thinking by engaging the

In an inquiry-based classroom, students aren't waiting for the

2. There are four Inquiry- Based Teaching Strategies. These are

Based on my observation during our demonstrations we had in

On the other hand, we had also used structured strategies in which

Science teachers can better facilitate science instruction in order to

 Encourage inquiry in the existing lessons to focus on the

 For inquiry to be successful, the classroom needs to be shift

 Encourage the students to build on each others ideas by

 While students are engaged in learning about the natural

4. Rate yourself from1-5 on how well you understand scientific

On a scale of 1-5, I would rate myself to the score of 5. At first,

One of my previous ideas about inquiry was that it consisted mainly

Inquiry-based teaching focuses on moving students beyond general

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