Just for fun

I thought that I would see what results I would get by typing in 'guided inquiry' and doing an image search on Google. I got 113,000 results and found a whole range of images. The second image on the list was a fantastic image showing the different levels of inquiry learning. The funny thing is that it came from one of my fellow students blog here http://anniewhi.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/, it’s under Sunday 17^th of August. 

Unfortunately most of the images were of book covers or advertising for Syba signs. I’m going to try and narrow the search.

'Inquiry based learning model' received 585,000 hits and have many more appropriate images. Most of them were very simplistic and seemed to be focused on primary school. I did really like this one though.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/0907/article.html the library of congress had some wonderful information about  inquiry learning. The Stripling Model was the model that they used to frame their inquiry work.

Typing inquiry based learning into you tube received 467 hits.

Inquiry based teaching received 153 hits.

This video was interesting in that it highlighted was I discovered whilst searching for inquiry based learning, different educators have their own understanding about what it means. This has reinforced to me the importance of having a school wide model that everyone works from so you know that the teachers that you will be working with have the same understanding and base from which to work.