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This paper reviews university-level efforts to improve understanding of anthropogenic global climate change (AGCC) through curricula that enable student scientific inquiry. We examined 152 refereed publications and proceedings from academic conferences and selected 26 cases of inquiry learning that overcome specific challenges to AGCC teaching. This review identifies both the strengths and weaknesses of each of these case studies. It is the first to go beyond examining the impact of specific inquiry instructional approaches to offer a synthesis of cases. We find that inquiry teaching can succeed by concretising scientific processes, providing access to global data and evidence, imparting critical and higher order thinking about AGCC science/policy and contextualising learning with places and scientific facts. We recommend educational researchers and scientists collaborate to create and refine curricula that utilise geospatial technologies, climate models and communication technologies to bring students into contact with scientists, climate data and authentic AGCC research processes. Many available science education technologies and curricula also require further research to maximise trade-offs between implementation and training costs and their educational value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an inclusive didactic proposal in Natural Sciences, based on inquiry teaching. The proposal, designed with the appropriate adaptations to meet each special case, was implemented in a third grade class with 26 children, 5 of them with special educational needs. The results show the feasibility and benefits for all of using inquiry teaching: all children, including those with special needs, succeed in the objectives proposed. Also, the students developed a high degree of motivation and commitment, although some difficulties arose related with group work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accordingly, the practical teaching of the remote sensing principles courses should also keep pace with the times and be adjusted and the reformed. To cultivate the creative thinking of students, exercise their practical ability, and improve the effect of teaching, based on the characteristics of remote sensing principles courses, this paper fused inquiry teaching to the practical teaching of remote sensing courses. Particularly, a new practical teaching mode was constructed based on exploration of the practical teaching content and the optimization of teaching cases, which structured around "three orientations","three levels" and "seven modules" models. This practical teaching mode introduces the detailed teaching content of the inquiry practical teaching model, classroom organization methods, and student assessment strategies. The new mode thereby can stimulate students ? learning interest in remote sensing principles and a preferable teaching result was attained with significant improvement on students' practical manipulative and scientific research innovation ability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]