PHASE 2: What did I learn?

How do I capture my learning and show my growth as a learner?

In this part of your inquiry, you begin exploring your ideas more deeply. You start by thinking about what you already know and why this inquiry matters to you. Then you begin to investigate. This might include talking to people who know more than you, testing things through experiments or hands-on tests, or perhaps reading/watching/listening to helpful sources. 

You will start to sort and organize the information you are finding out. This could look like grouping ideas, noticing patterns or themes, creating diagrams, sketching, writing, discussing, or calculating. As you make sense of your learning, you may answer some of your original questions—and discover brand-new ones. Your inquiry may go deeper, wider, or even take you back to the beginning again. That’s part of the journey.

As you learn, your job is to capture your thinking and not just the facts. Pay attention to how your ideas are changing and how you are growing as a thinker, researcher, and learner. You can choose the template that is right for you and your inquiry, or build your own to record your learning!