This is an inquiry model I used for our 'Successful Communities' inquiry. My first thoughts? Would students be able to understand this? And would this model support their inquiry learning?
Once we did the learning wall under each 'process' for example 'Getting started' 'Planning info' 'Collecting info' as mentioned in my previous post - students showed understanding of each one, however the questions under each heading were confusing some students. Their thoughts were - too wordy, it was hard to follow, do I answer all the questions under each heading before moving on?
The 'process' had really informative headings which can steer a student's inquiry, however this inquiry 'process' needed to be changed in order for my students to be able to inquiry on their terms and have freedom to move around an 'action' without having a systematical process.
This prompted me to think about including the students to create our own class inquiry model that will be effective to use and support them to inquiry, not confuse them, and know they are able to move in between the different actions in any order of the model.
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