Inquiry Design

Design Thinking, Engineering Process, Problem Solving, Scientific Process, Writing Process. They all are teaching the same ideas of getting students to learn inquiry and provide evidence. The processes are not linear. They are continuous and help engage the students in learning.

The goal of these lessons is to utilize inquiry to get students to learn how to ask questions, find answers to these questions, and provide evidence based on their findings. This process is based on the Design Thinking and Engineering Process, asking why we want to know this and how is this beneficial?

• Develop questions

• Brainstorm ways to answer question

• Research and find data to answer questions

• Explore and visualize data

• Relate Data to questions and find new data if needed.

• Share data story