How can chemistry help explain waters personal and societal importance?
She then asks students how could they find answers to their questions. The teacher tries to anticipate student needs in order to provide the resources and experiences that are requested by the students as the information is needed. She directs them without doing the work for them. The next day, Chris and his team are using Netscape to search for information about water use on the World Wide Web using the Yahoo search engine. Another group is using a variety of CD-ROM disks that contain images and information. Another group is investigating properties of water in the lab. The teacher encourages the students to find out more, to go back to their sources and get substantiation. Students decide that it might be something in the water that caused the fish kill and that it would be useful to find out what is in the water, so water samples are brought in to the classroom. Appropriate technology is used to collect and analyze water data. Telecommunications is used to gather data and for collab