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In the Everyday Classroom Tools project, we were seeking to immerse elementary school students in the Spirit of Inquiry, to help them begin to observe and learn from their experience. Our project was rooted in a connected, progressive set of observations and questions, which we used to explore the world around us. We looked for answers to these questions that are consistent with our experience and with the accumulated knowledge of humankind. At all times we tried to keep ourselves rooted in our own observations. We endeavored to maintain a connection between what we were exploring, what we learned in the past, and what we hope to understand in the future. What the Everyday Classroom Tools project wishes to stress is that before there were encyclopedias, there were authors, and before there were scientific facts, there were curious people trying to explain the world around them. This site still maintains links to Harvard-Smithsonian center for Astrophysics.

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