Inquiring into Numbers: NANSLO's Methodology for Developing Inquiry Based Laboratory Activities

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2016, Volume 37

Paul (PJ) Bennett

Abstract

The North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) provides real-time internet mediated access to high quality scientific instrumentation. Because of this high quality instrumentation NANSLO is best suited to address learning goals where precise quantitative data is needed. Over the last several years the NANSLO group has developed more than 30 inquiry-based laboratory activities. This paper will explain the methodology we use to develop our activities and give the audience tools they can use to adapt their own lab activities. We believe this process can be used to create inquiry based activities for both online and face-to-face courses.

Keywords:  inquiry, Quantitative, Inquiry

Boston University (2015)