CIBL: Center for Inquiry-Based Learning, exercises and teacher training

Center for Inquiry-Based Learning

Duke University

The Center for Inquiry-Based Learning is a group of scientists and science educators who are developing exercises and training teachers in the use of multidisciplinary, hands-on, minds-on, discovery methods for teaching science. Our goal is to enrich science teaching in schools and to make science more accessible and interesting to a wide range of students of varying skill levels and educational backgrounds.

Inquiry helps build self confidence, motivation to learn, and collegiality.

Our founder, Steve Wainwright,
experiencing the joy of inquiry in
everyday life.

Science & math exercises
free for downloading.

Find out about the people
at CIBL.

What do we mean by Inquiry?

Duke University has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership grant to set up a science materials and training program called Teachers and Scientists Collaborating.

CIBL will be devoting its time, energy, and personnel to making TASC a truly innovative, inquiry-based program. Click here or on the TASC logo to visit the new TASC website.

Science is a way of asking and seeking answers to questions rather than learning answers to someone else's questions.
Herb Thier, Director
Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP)
University of California, Berkeley

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an
accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a
house.
Henri Poincaré
Science and Hypothesis, 1901

Our site has been featured by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) as one of its "Digital Dozen." ENC Online is a K-12 math and science teacher center, and their site is filled with resources for educators.

Our programs and workshops have been sponsored by:

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Eisenhower Professional Development Program
(UNC--MSEN)

SAS Community Relations

National Science Foundation

The Center for Inquiry-Based Learning
Contact us on our new website at:
http://www.ciblearning.org

Various parts of this web site are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
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