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Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies |
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LILT, Dept. of ICS • University of Hawai`i at Manoa • 1680 East-West Road, POST 309 • Honolulu, HI 96822 • 1-808-956-3890
Overview
Educational Objectives
Belvedere helps students learn critical inquiry skills that they can apply in science and other subjects.
Subject Matter Topics
We provide "science challenge" problems for scientific problems that are currently under active investigation, so students learn science as a process, not just facts.
Software Tools
Students use a web browser to access on-line materials that that demonstrate how scientists gather and analyze information, including talking with other scientists, reading articles, going to conferences, running experiments, and doing field studies. Students use visual "knowledge mapping" software to construct "inquiry diagrams" which aid learning in several ways.
Classroom Activities
We provide lesson plans for engaging your class in a "science adventure," in which groups of students investigate and solve current scientific problems. This is just one possible way to use our software and materials: We want to hear your ideas too!