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What is Inquiry Learning?
What is Inquiry Learning?
Inquiry learning is a collaborative teaching model where teachers partner with students in constructing learning.
It involves an integrated curriculum, connecting contexts so that students develop skills, values, and understandings that are meaningful and relevant across a range of curriculum areas.
The Inquiry Process
The Inquiry Process
The Inquiry Process should include the following sections:
Resources
Resources
Classroom Connections
Classroom Connections: Strategies for Integrated Learning by Kath Murdoch.
This book is a great resource and explains the activities for each part of the Inquiry Process, as used with students. It contains lots of practical ideas to ensure that your Inquiry lessons are full of engaging, hands-on activities.
There should be one book in every classroom.
New Zealand Seventh-day Adventist Schools Curriculum Framework
The New Zealand Seventh-day Adventist Schools Curriculum Framework is still in draft form but contains information about teaching Inquiry through the four Special Character lenses:
- Creation
- Fall
- Redemption
- Restoration
This document also includes key questions and possible contexts.
Thinking Tools
Applications to support Inquiry Learning
These are different applications that can be used to enhance your Inquiry lessons and support the activities/learning that your students are doing through each step of the Inquiry process.
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