{"id":28054,"date":"2014-02-24T11:21:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=28054"},"modified":"2014-02-24T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:21:43","slug":"hands-on-approach-to-learning-encourages-students-to-question-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/02\/24\/hands-on-approach-to-learning-encourages-students-to-question-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on approach to learning encourages students to question more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27602\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/02\/11\/the-science-of-teaching-science-wright-state-researchers-work-to-change-traditional-model\/lisa-kenyon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27602\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27602\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/02\/lisa-kenyon-260x180.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Kenyon, Jeannette Loyer and Mackenzie English\" width=\"260\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Wright State associate professor Lisa Kenyon and graduate students Jeannette Loyer and Mackenzie English are part of a grant investigating how science is taught to grade-school students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright State University associate professor Lisa Kenyon is bringing fun back into the classroom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"story_premium_fill\">\n<p>Kenyon said the curriculum she helped develop at Northwestern University gives students a hands-on approach to learning. IQWST \u2014 Investigating and Questioning our World through Science and Technology \u2014 provides four units outlined as stories to create dialogue and prompt critical thinking in classrooms, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum is for students grades six through eighth and covers physics, chemistry, geology and life science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to make the content more relateable,\u201d Kenyon said. \u201cWe want students to get better at asking questions and tackling big concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local\/hands-on-approach-to-learning-encourages-students-\/ndX2g\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Daily News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(subscription required).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University associate professor Lisa Kenyon is bringing fun back into the classroom. Kenyon said the curriculum she helped develop at Northwestern University gives students a hands-on approach to learning. IQWST \u2014 Investigating and Questioning our World through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/02\/24\/hands-on-approach-to-learning-encourages-students-to-question-more\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":26968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064,2023,715,746,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-faculty","category-news","category-science-mathematics","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28059,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions\/28059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}