The document discusses inquiry learning, which involves a process of wondering, planning, and exploring. It defines inquiry as involving six steps: hook, wondering, planning, exploring, creating, and reflecting and evaluating. These steps form a cycle that can be entered at any point but are generally followed in sequence. The document also notes that inquiry is a disposition and provides examples of how inquiry learning is implemented at Botany Downs School, including through questioning, developing key competencies, using ICT, creating, developing information literacy, using higher-order thinking tools, establishing a common learning language, and fostering metacognition.

1. Wondering
Planning
Exploring
Botany Downs School
12 October 2009

2. Why are we, and so many other schools,
now using an inquiry learning approach
with our students?

3. Inquiry: a process?
• Hook
• Wondering
• Planning
• Exploring
• Creating
• Reflecting and Evaluating

4. Inquiry: a disposition
Hook
Creating Wondering
Reflecting
and
Evaluating
Exploring Planning

5. Harry

6. Wondering
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7. Planning
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8. Exploring
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9. An inquiry classroom

10. questioning

11. key competencies

12. ICT

13. creating

14. information literacy

15. HOT tools

16. common learning language

17. metacognition