Inquiry-Based Learning

Inquiry-based learning ... that was my topic for study this week in my technology class. Like I mentioned in my last blog post, I am struggling with seeing how this actually functions in a classroom because it is something I have not experienced before. I found this video, and I feel like it answered some of my questions: I love how the teacher guided the students into making the own questions and investigations. I love seeing how the kids are learning ... from the girl realizing that a question could be both scientific and mathematical in nature, and I love the quick teaching opportunity that produced for the teacher. I can see inquiry-based learning happening as culminating events at the end of learning a mathematical topic, where students construct their learning through working with manipulatives, and then they apply that learning through an inquiry-based learning activity. I think, in combination with other methods, this is a very effective way to teach.