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Agenda

• Trying out "open-ended transactional inquiry"
  • A test case: Exploring Eggs" at Lansdowne
• Thinking about the development/student expectations
  • Using the brain as a framework
  • "agent detection", "causal reasoning", "theory of mind" and "categorization, "black and white", "confirmation bias"? - NY Times Magazine, Darwin's God, 4 March 2007
• Getting concrete about a preK-6 science/inquiry curriculum
  • scope and sequence, suggestions from all
  • lesson plans, suggestions from all
    • Science and a sense of place
    • Science, evolution, the brain
    • Darwin's Voyage Revisited
    • Classifying Organisms
    • What is being alive? (see for results)
• Planning for future meetings, summer?

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