Week+3


 * Week 3 **

**This week's topic:** Cookbook to Inquiry Introduction
Over the next few weeks we will be discussing how to convert cookbooks labs to inquiry-based activities, and how to apply these guidelines to your own activity conversion.You will be starting with the teacher pages of your activity; a good example of a teacher guide is provided below for the Oobleck activity. this week's class presentation provides some of the basic requirements for your activity development.

As an introduction to the expectations for your presentations, here is a general rubric for the presentation of an inquiry activity.

**This week's activity:** States of Matter with Oobleck
There are literally thousands of write-ups for Oobleck and Glurch out there, with small variations here and there. Here is an excellent teacher's guide :

This can serve as an example of what elements are required for the teacher pages of an activity, although it has one fatal flaw; the lack of safety instructions. There are also student pages to go with this, which I will provide later. In the meantime, here is another good write-up, with quite a few associated activities:

This is my presentation around the Oobleck activity.