Inquiry is the process of asking questions to gain knowledge or information about people, places, things or events. It involves investigating a topic by collecting and examining data, and using different thinking strategies like inferring, critiquing and creating. Research is a scientific way to discover truths about a chosen topic by inquiry. Benefits of inquiry-based learning include improving student learning abilities, widening vocabulary, facilitating problem-solving, encouraging higher-order thinking skills and hastening conceptual understanding.

1. NATURE OF INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
INQUIRY – to look for
information by asking
various questions about
the thing you are curious
about

2. NATURE OF INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
RESEARCH – to
discover truths by
investigating on your
chosen topic
scientifically.

3. A. NATURE OF
INQUIRY
1. INQUIRY – a learning
process that motivates
you to obtain knowledge
or information about
people, things, places, or
events.

4. HOW YOU DO INQUIRY
1. Investigating or
asking questions about
something you are
inquisitive about

5. HOW YOU DO INQUIRY
2. Collect data,
meaning, facts, and
information about the
object of your inquiry
and examine such data
carefully.

6. HOW YOU DO INQUIRY
3. Execute varied
thinking strategies that
range from lower-order
to higher-order thinking
skills (inferential,
critical, integrative and
creative thinking)

7. INQUIRY
2. INQUIRY – a problem-
solving technique acting like
a scientist by imagining,
speculating, interpreting,
criticizing and creating
something of what you
discovered.

8. INQUIRY
1. John Dewey’s theory of
connected experiences for
exploratory and reflexive
thinking.

9. INQUIRY
2. Lev Vygotsky’s Zones of
Proximal Development
(ZPD) that stresses the
essence of provocation
and scaffolding in
learning.

10. INQUIRY
3. Jerome Bruney’s theory
on learners’ varied world
perceptions for their own
interpretative thinking of
people and things around
them.

11. ELEMENTS OF INQUIRY
1. Changing knowledge
2. Creativity
3. Subjectivity
4. Socio-cultural factors
5. Sensory experiences
6. Higher- order thinking
strategies

12. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
1. Elevates interpretative
thinking through
graphic skills
2. Improves student
learning abilities

13. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
3. Widens learner’s
vocabulary
4. Facilitates problem-
solving acts
5. Increases social
awareness and cultural
knowledge

14. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
6. Encourages cooperative
learning
7. Provides mastery of
procedural knowledge
8. Encourages higher-
order thinking skills

15. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
9. Hasten conceptual
understanding