Inquiry Learning
Inquiry learning helps students become self-directed, lifelong learners. An inquiry approach to learning enables students to pose thoughtful questions, make sense of information, and develop new understandings about a topic and the world around them.
Build on curiosity
Develop critical thinkers
Encourage active learning
An inquiry approach encourages students to:
ask thought-provoking questions
investigate widely and deeply
make sense of information
develop a solution or formulate opinions
present or share their understanding
take action
reflect on what they learned
build an understand of how they learn
Empowering knowledgeable citizens
It is based on the constructivist theory of learning, which puts emphasis on the skills, attitudes, and understandings that students develop as they discover and construct new knowledge for themselves.
Fostering a cross-curricular approach
Cross curriculum approach allowing children to build connections within many different aspects of their learning developing and deeper understandings
Student driven
An inquiry approach empowers students to have voice and agency within their own learning. They gain confidence to ask questions, investigate, explore possible solutions, develop opinions and take action about the issues they feel passionately about.