Activity 4 – Planning Inquiry

I would like to share this picture from google images:

a. What does inquiry look like?

In a science classroom, inquiry looks like the use of experimentation, hands

on activities or research to gather evidence with the final aim of creating
explanations for natural scientific phenomena. It surely is an approach to
learning following our curious mindset about how the world operates (in
terms of scientific processes).

b. What does inquiry sound like?

 Asking questions around a central idea, collaborating with teacher and peers,
working together in a team, communicating our ideas and listening to others’
opinions, gathering data and results of an experiment, working patiently to
reach a desired result, organizing the results in a table or diagram, analysing
and concluding the results.

c. What does inquiry feel like for the teachers? For the students?

For Teachers For Students

A good central question or theme Fun, exploring, researching, diving
into unknown
Careful planning of activities Autonomy and responsibility of own
learning
Guiding students and empowering Making sense of the world/scientific
them to succeed concepts or phenomenon
Answering the questions that emerge Collecting evidence and analysing
during the inquiry results
Student engagement Reflecting on own learning

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u84ZsS6niPc