This research project represents a collaboration among researchers at UC Berkeley and Educational Testing Service, and teachers in the Berkeley and Oakland Public Schools. The goal is to create an inquiry-oriented approach to science education that is broadly applicable across a school’s science curriculum. A further goal is to create curricular and computer-based materials that will enable teachers who are not science experts to implement this approach successfully. Our primary research question is, can curricular materials and instructional tools that teach scientific inquiry skills enable teachers to learn about science and scientific inquiry, and, at the same time, to create a classroom environment that enables their students to do scientific inquiry and modeling.Barbara White is the principal investigator.