An overview of Inquiry at Bucklands Beach Intermediate

1. Inquiry Learning at BBI

2. What is Social Science? Why teach Social Science? What is Inquiry?

6. Why use an Inquiry approach?

7. Memorizing information is not the most important skill in today's world. Information is readily available and can be copied! We need an understanding of how to find, make sense of, and use relevant information for specific purposes. Knowledge is now a process not a thing ‘Action is the proper fruit of knowledge’ Thomas Fuller

8. Why? We want our students to engaged in authentic and interesting learning experiences. We want them to create knowledge and understanding for themselves We want them to think!

11. The project based tradition in our schools is the killer of thought.” Jamie McKenzie

12. In the past knowledge scarce society: In the absence of adequate information resources (students) were limited to generic low-level common thematic questions such as space, dinosaurs, the undersea world, the weather etc., the relevant resources being freely available in libraries. In today’s knowledge rich society: ..topics such as "space" become redundant, while questions such as "compare and contrast video footage from the earth and Mars and identify two significant similarities and differences. Using one of the differences which you have identified hypothesise as to why life is so prevalent on earth but appears to be almost non-existent on Mars”, become viable. Mark Treadwell - The Perfect (Education) Storm

14. When students have ownership over the process their learning becomes a meaningful experience.

16. It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugène Ionesco

21. What is important for students at BBI to learn?

22. Suddenly knowledge is available to anyone who can spell Google Mark Treadwell

26. Inquiry learning is just a philosophy … unless the teacher provides structure, scaffolding and teaches the skills the student requires to achieve success. Scaffolding and support The teacher becomes a partner in the experiences and takes the vital role of a role model of quality learning.