Practical strategies for inquiry learning

Inquiry in the Australian Curriculum

Practical strategies for planning and supporting students through each phase of inquiry. Strategies are organised using the three diamonds model of inquiry for the Australian Curriculum.

Initiate

Engage students in an opening event to stimulate thinking

Investigate

Help students plan to collect, search and critique information

Create

Guide critical and creative thinking for ideas and solutions

Communicate

Transfer ideas into new contexts and share findings

Evaluate

Students reflect on their thinking and processes

Assessment

Authentic tasks that provide students with meaningful feedback

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Planning an inquiry unit

Apply your understanding of the information in this toolkit to plan and improve inquiry units. Use the rubrics provided to:

plan and evaluate the appropriateness for your students
build on existing resources to include the types of learning developed through inquiry.

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