Community Inquiry Lab

Paseo Boricua Community Library Project

The Community Inquiry Lab is a way to connect with people in common inquiry. It's a way of practicing education both inside and outside of school. One group of people, SisterNet, use it to develop spiritual health plans and to trade recipes. Teachers use it to develop and trade lesson plans. The possibilities are limitless. One way of looking at it is as a way to learn, solve problems and grow... together. All of these links take you to different parts of the Inquiry Page.

Look at what we're doing.
Think of something you'd like to learn about.
Go for it! One of the best ways to learn is to just jump in go for it. Join in and create your own member profile. Create an inquiry unit. Add your events to our online calendar. Inquiry simply begins with questions...

Inquiry Cycle

Click here to find existing inquiry units related to water.

Our Units: Click here to see many of them. See below for some exciting new ones.

Who was Joan Nicklin, for whom the Puerto Rican Cultural Center's "Third World Collection" is named?

HOT! Key Points in the Grant Application Requirements of the Department of Commerce's Technology Opportunities Program (TOP). Bharat Mehra

This unit represents a collaboration of Ricardo Garcia and two librarians on the Urbana campus, Al Kagan and Sue Searing:

What library collections devoted to the Third World exist, and how are they cataloged?

This provides a start for this inquiry. We can build it up little by little, with tips, ideas and info anybody finds. as authors, Ricardo and Ann can edit it. Other people can "spin off" this unit to add more to it, or just add their comments at the bottom, once they've registered to use the inquiry page by filling out the simple member profile form.

The Paseo Boricua Community Inquiry Lab is starting a new project related to water quality as a partner in the NSF Water Campws Science and Technology Center.

Here are some water-related units that may be of particular interest to Paseo Boricua:

Boneyard Creek: what is the history of the closest water source to the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club?

How Can Black Women Take Action for Water Quality?

How can indigenous materials be used to purify water?

Does the Kenai River's water quality change from it's source to it's end?

Surface Water Quality - Studying the world around us

How do you make dirty water clean?

How can the Inquiry Community Lab support the Marshall Islands Project?

Here are some other community inquiry labs related to water:

Corrales Community Library

Life on the Prairie

SisterNet