It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts...it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves
       ~Robert Hutchins

• Description -

The students in Animal Science class, taught by Mr. Jerry McGuire, used Inspiration software to help them organize their thoughts, materials, steps and procedures for this field based research.

• Cognition Level -

Knowledge Utilization

Multiple Intelligences

• Naturalist
   
• Visual Spatial
   
• Linguistic
   
• Intrapersonal
   
• Interpersonal
   
• Logical Mathematical
   
• Kinesthetic
   

Instructional Technologies

• Inspiration

Check it out

The links below are video clips that provide additional information Mr. McGuire's Inspiration project.

The first clip is an interview to get a student's response.
Interview with student

Click on this 2nd link to see the students engaged with Inspiration.

Student engagement

Click the links below to see examples of Inspiration diagrams

Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5