This document provides an agenda for a class on student and collaborative teacher inquiry. It includes discussions on social justice, asking questions about the Mars One project, developing inquiry projects, and the inquiry process. Students will work on developing essential questions and meeting logs for their inquiry groups. Supporting materials are linked on Sakai and include resources on social justice lessons, the Mars One project, and samples of past student monographs. The document outlines the four steps of inquiry-based learning and emphasizes developing student-driven questions and reflection. Students will have in-class time to work on their inquiry projects and are responsible for completing and submitting their group's first meeting log by the end of class.

1. 8P43
Student Inquiry
Collaborative Teacher Inquiry
Class 2
2020

2. Agenda
• Social Justice Picture Book: 30 min
• Asking Questions: Mars One
• Student Inquiry
• Collaborative Teacher Inquiry
• Inquiry Project: Group time
– Monograph
– Essential Question
– Meeting Log

3. Support on Sakai
• ETFO: A Social Justice Approach
– Lesson plan and picture book for each grade

5. “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the
modern methods of instruction have not yet
entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
Albert Einstein
Creative Commons

6. • http://www.mars-one.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FXp8cr4fe8

7. Questions???
• What questions does your Table Group have
about the Mars One Project? Make a list
• Now consult the Question Matrix (copy
provided and on Sakai). Try to add questions
from various cells on the matrix, especially the
bottom right quadrant.

9. Next step…
• Go to Sakai and read the Mars One update
from January 2018

10. • Which of your questions have been answered
by this source?
• What further or remaining questions do you
have?
• How will you find the answers?

12. INQUIRY
KWHLAQ
Know
Want to know
How to find it
Learned
Action
Questions

14. Inquiry-Based Learning: Developing
Student-Driven Questions
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdYev6
MXTOA

15. 4 Steps of Inquiry-based Learning
1. Students develop questions they are hungry
to answer.
2. Research the topic using time in class.
3. Have students present what they’ve learned.
4. Ask students to reflect on what worked about
the process and what didn’t.

16. Teacher Involvement
• “While flexibility is key to success with inquiry,
class time is not a free-for-all. Teachers always
need to guide the inquiry toward further
learning and keep students from being
sidetracked.”
• Source: Inquiry-based learning: Developing student-driven
questions http://goo.gl/5NvXHN

17. 4 Steps of Inquiry-based Learning
Now it’s your turn!!
1. Teacher candidates develop questions they
are hungry to answer.
2. Research the topic using time in class.
3. Present what you’ve learned.
4. Reflect on what worked about the process
and what didn’t.

19. Inquiry Project – Monograph
• To be created by your group
• Worth 25% of final grade
• See Syllabus and Evaluation Components
(Sakai – Syllabus tab) for rubrics
• Due Jan. 23 (sec. 5) or Jan. 24 (sec. 6)

20. Monograph Support
• Checklist and structure
• Exemplars from 2016 - 2018
• Sakai: Resources/Monograph samples
• Research for journal articles:
– Brock Library: Omni
• Brocku.ca/library

22. Meeting Logs
• Sign up for being facilitator/recorder
• On your assigned day, complete and upload
Meeting Log to Sakai Forum by end of day
• Designed for goal setting, reflection on
collaboration, division of responsibility etc.
• Log forms are on Sakai under Resources and in
each Forum.

23. Collaborative Inquiry Time
• Tasks:
– Narrow inquiry focus
– Identify inquiry question
– Brainstorm Learning Objects
– Complete Meeting Log #1
• Post it to Forum by end of today