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Yr 7 Inquiry Project

Teaching resources for Lesson 1

Yr 7 Inquiry Project

Lesson #1

Embark & Clarify

Learning Intentions

Success Criteria

In today’s lesson I am learning…
 

•What an Inquiry project is
 

•What I already know about my topic and what it is about
 

•What a good Research Question looks like

 

•What is expected in the Inquiry project

I know I will be successful by the end of the lesson if I…

 

•Write what I already know about my topic

 

•Create Good Research Questions for my topic

 

•List what I have learnt about my topic

 

•Have a teacher checked and signed off our workbook for today’s first session

 

Embark & Clarify image

 

Curiosity

Small group discussion:
 

•Share a time when you have been curious about something.
 
•What was it and how did it make you feel?
•What were you learning from it?

https://youtu.be/QlwkerwaV2E total clip  4.37 Could be stopped at 1.20

 

Research Skill Development Pentagon

 

TODAY

  • What do we already know about our topic?

  • Finding out  - Introduction - reading and exploring 

https://whitefriars.libguides.com/yr7inquiryproject/inquirytopics

  • Research Questions – video

  • Writing Good Research Questions

  • Task outline

  • Choose presentation format & sign off

 

References on this page:

Willison, J. (2020). What Is Our Purpose?. In: The Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2683-1_1

Spencer, J. (2017). Inquiry-based learning: An ultimate guide [video]. https://youtu.be/QlwkerwaV2E?feature=shared

OSLIS Elementary Videos (2017). Choosing a topic and developing a research question [video]. https://youtu.be/GvGVS1S3Rec?feature=shared