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Science 22 December 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5807, pp. 1880 - 1881
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136796
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INQUIRY LEARNING:
Teaching Scientific Inquiry

David I. Hanauer,1* Deborah Jacobs-Sera,2 Marisa L. Pedulla,3 Steven G. Cresawn,2 Roger W. Hendrix,2 Graham F. Hatfull2*

Working in research laboratories to generate new scientific information can give high school students a taste of real scientific investigation.

1Graduate Program in Composition and TESOL, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705, USA.

2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

3Department of Biological Sciences, Montana Technology of the University of Montana, Butte, MT 59701, USA.

*Authors for correspondence. E-mail: gfh{at}pitt.edu (G.F.H.); hanauer{at}iup.edu (D.I.H.)

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