Inquiry Skills are the necessary abilities needed to do a good research. Here are the steps.

1. INQUIRY SKILLS
by Jaime D. Peña
Edited by Mister Valverde

2. WHAT ARE INQUIRY SKILLS?
Inquiry skills are investigation abilities. These
abilities help you learn about the world around us.
Just as detectives finding clues, scientists need
inquiry skills to find facts.
Scientists find these facts using the Scientific Method.

3. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION

4. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
Observing is using our 5
senses to learn about things
around you.

5. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
It is a prediction. It answers
the question: “What would
happen at the end of the
observation or experiment?”

6. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
We need to analyze the
evidence we find. Compare
and contrast, finding
similarities and differences.

7. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
Our memory can fail, that’s
why it is smart idea to write
everything we see, smell,
hear, taste, or feel.

8. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
OBSERVING
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYZING
RECORDING DATA
CONCLUSION
Comparing your prediction
with what really happened
at the end of the
investigation or experiment.

9. GREAT JOB!