Inquiry means engaging students where their curiosity meets the material and allowing the students' questions to become the blueprint for the learning. Each inquiry lesson should involve the student actively participating in the following: questioning, data analysis, and critical thinking. 

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"Students at all grade levels and in every domain of science should have the opportunity to use scientific inquiry and develop the ability to think and act in ways associated with inquiry, including asking questions, planning and conducting investigations, using appropriate tools and techniques to gather data, thinking critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations, constructing and analyzing alternative explanations, and communicating scientific arguments (NRC 1996, p. 105)." 

 

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National Research Council (NRC). 1996. National science education standards. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.