Inquiry

Choose between a video and text (or select both if you wish):

• Scott Crombie - 6 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u84ZsS6niPc

• Text: https://inquiry.galileo.org/

An Inquiry project can be highly structured or fairly open. Scott Crombie breaks this degree of control into three levels: Structured, Guided, and Open. Those new to Inquiry may choose to start with a highly structured approach, where the teacher develops the critical challenge question(s), and provides a step-by-step approach for students to follow in finding the answers. This may be the best level with-which to begin with students who have little to no experience in guiding their own learning.

Guided Inquiry provides the students with more latitude in how they will approach the process of inquiry, but the teacher may still provide scaffolding and direction during the process.

An Open Inquiry has students develop their own critical challenge questions, plan the process, and implement their inquiry. Open Inquiry requires student higher order thinking skills and an ability to take ownership of learning.

It is, of course, possible to have a combination of Inquiry levels.

In this Quest, you will watch two videos. One video demonstrates a more Open/Guided approach, while the other is more Structured/Guided.

• Example 1 shows an open style of Inquiry with appropriate teacher guidance at various stages of the Inquiry. This inquiry ran across several schools simultaneously and included students from grades two through nine.The I-CAN project (About 20 minutes): https://vimeo.com/41652366

• Example 2 shows a structured Inquiry using Galileo's criteria for a successful inquiry. Galileo video... about 15 minutes (Grade 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVhKTMFCgq0&feature=youtu.be

You can decide what this quest will look like. Here are some resources that go deeper into the concept of Inquiry than the basic quests:

• http://galileo.org/teachers/designing-learning/articles/why-inquiry/ Criteria: http://galileo.org/rubric.pdf

• Complete workshop on Inquiry Learning: http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html Note: Videos do not work on Chrome but seem to work on other browsers.

• Deeper look at Inquiry - Literature Review: https://inspiring.education.alberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Inquiry-Based-Learning-A-Review-of-the-Research-Literature.pdf

There are certainly more resources if you wish.

You may be using classroom observation as a resource.