Inquiry+Learning



**//A Genric Inquiry format involves the following steps...//** > An issue, based on a real event is presented. A scenario is presented for students to identify with the issue and some background information is provided to help contextualise the issue. Students investigate one of a number of different perspectives of how people may respond to the issue. > A collection of websites and resources are provided to help start the investigation. These websites/resources have been reviewed for their authenticity, accuracy, and currency and include text, audio and photos, where possible, to cater for different learning styles. > A series of questions are developed to help students select relevant information. > A suggested series of steps and formats is given for sorting out the collected information. > Students share their response to the issue/s and present their learning and understandings. > Students evaluate their learning about the issue, their processes as a learner and role as a team member and their plan of action in response to their learning. Often guided by a rubric.
 * **Define - What do we want to know?**
 * **Locate - Where do we find the information?**
 * **Select - What information is important for this investigation?**
 * **Organise - How do we make sense of the information?**
 * **Present - How do we let others know about this information?**
 * **Evaluate - What have we learnt?**


 * //Road safety issues provide rich and substantive contexts for inquiry learning.[[image:eye2.gif]] //**


 * //Follow the Inquiry process as Winton School progresses through the Inquiry planning stages.//**

**//Check out what other Southland RoadSense schools are doing in Inquiry//**
Links to take you further...
 * [|Inquiry Online Workshop.]
 * [|What is Inquiry?]
 * [|Inquiry Schools website]
 * [|Inquiry Blog]
 * [|The BIG 6- an information process based on ICT.]
 * [|The Coast Rd Inquiry with ICT]
 * [|Inquiry Frameworks]
 * [|Co-operative learning strategies]
 * [|Team building-]physical activities


 * //Powerful Learning Quotes[[image:ani_thinkingcap.gif]]//**
 * [|Powerful learning]


 * //Inquiry Teaching and Learning Resources.[[image:miss69.gif]]//**

Inquiry Panning Template-with key competencies IPO-Inquiry Planning Overview