SAILY AGENDA: DESIGNED FOR INQUIRY

To find the answer to the focus question, students are guided through an Investigation with physical materials or in a virtual lab within the CyberPad. The Investigation has sub-agenda items that take students through a smaller inquiry cycle that involves making a prediction, testing that prediction by making observations, then going back and comparing their observations to their prediction. Remind students that a prediction is an educated guess. If what they saw did not match up to what they thought would happen, that’s okay! That happens in science all the time!

Once students finish an Investigation, they will use their new knowledge to change or enhance their original answer to the focus question. It’s important to emphasize that as long as students are learning new information and testing their predictions, the accuracy of their predictions is less important.