Inquiry Learning Steps and Skills

PREMIUM RESOURCE | The Bundle of question starters help students to think and act critically about information. By using differing endings for who, what, when, where, why and how, creates literal questions (present and past), inferential questions (possibility and probability) and extended question (prediction and imagination) about the information. The resource includes the three levels of thinking, while asking questions across the areas of event, situation, choice, person, reason, and means. This is an invaluable resource for critical thinking through all learning areas of the curriculum.

FREE | A set of question words - Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?

SMART RESOURCE | The IBL posters outline the stages of the research process – Big Idea, (Prior Knowledge, Organise - Ideas, Questions, Words) Find, Use, Record, Present, Evaluate and Reflect. The posters have colourful fun illustrations incorporating graphic organiser templates. The resource is produced in colour, ideal for a teacher modelling book or wall display and in black and white, suitable for student’s books. These pages can be reduced in size to accommodate each book.

SMART RESOURCE | Question starters help students to develop questions which reflect on the types of thinking they are using. They help the student to think and act critically about information. The seven question starters ask literal questions focused on present knowledge and information.