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Inquiry and Student Research
Many models and approaches can be taken to teach students about the inquiry process. Callison's components of inquiry (shown in logo below right) include questioning, exploring, assimilating, inferring, and reflecting.
These basic elements provide the foundation for many of the models such as The Big 6 and Inquiry Ws.
Try It!
Think about the inquiry approaches and models you use:
Where do your students have the most trouble?
Where do students need the most help?
Where in the curriculum could we weave help?
Let's use Callison's components to explore the connection between inquiry and the common core: