Inquiry+Learning

=**Inquiry Learning:**=

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﻿An old adage states: "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand". The last part of this statement is the essence of inquiry based learning. =====

__**Some Useful Websites - Please add any that you have discovered!**__

__//Superclubsplus//__ Content: A safe educational social network site for children in Years 3 - 6. [] //__Thirteen__// Content:This site contains great professional reading in relation to inquiry learning [] //__VELS__// Content: An interactive diagram illustrates an approach to developing inquiry units of work. To see a description of each step in the process click on the buttons [] //__ Discover __// Content: I nquiry learning models explained. []

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The following are examples of inquiry approaches: Tuning In, Finding out, Sorting out, Going Further, Making Conclusions, Taking Action []

Blooms Revised Taxonomy: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, Create [] []

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) 5E Instructional Model: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[|www.acer.edu.au/documents/RC2006_BybeeSlides.pdf] or for a text version <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[|www.acer.edu.au/documents/RC2006_Bybee.pdf]

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development's e5 planning model <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">[]