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 **What is Inquiry Learning?**
**Inquiry learning or Inquiry-based learning** **(IBL)** is a curricular and pedagogical approach to teaching as students construct their own knowledge, incorporating new knowledge into concepts already established in the students’ mind. Inquiry learning is a form of active learning, where progress is assessed by how well students develop skills as opposed to knowledge they possess. Human curiosity advocates for inquiry learning and activates thinking on many levels. When we seek to make sense of the world around us, we question, we plan, we investigate, we analyse, we construct and we reflect. Inquiry learning is all about thinking – 'thinking in order to make meaning'. (K. Murdoch)

Below is a model of Inquiry Learning which shows all the ideas that take place in an inquiry-based learning environment and a basic overview of the Inquiry Process.

Sourced from: The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/0907/article.html



Reference: "Learning Links" By Kath Murdoch & Jeni Wilson (2004).