English Class Inquiry Lesson Exemplar
Class inquires are characterized by the discovery of factual knowledge available in the world and basic deductions that can create an enriched knowledge base in a topic before further lessons by the teacher in a unit.
As an English teacher, here examples of taking PBL protocols and turning them into Inquiries before the PBL protocol takes place. Teachers may notes that each topic was done for a different class, to run all topics in one class is very difficult.
This was a high school classroom that it took place in and students were briefed before each topic. Before the selection of the topic, students were given a number of topics by the teacher and voted for the one that they felt was most relevant to their school climate/classroom culture.
Each question or idea beneath the heading was researched and created by groups of 3-4 students who developed a resource that supported students/informed students about the topic, but specifically the question/idea they created.
In the end, the class had hosted another class that was completing a different topic for an exhibition/convention in which products were shared, studied and evaluated by the other class. In turn, the other class invited my class to their classroom in the next day for a visit doing the same thing.
Normally this would have been done at lunch, after school or had time set aside to appreciate "World Mental Health Day", etc. But due to extenuating circumstances, it was completed on a smaller scale.
The pictures below are the inquires made by students on "Day 2" (after the class selected the topic).
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