Inquiry-Based Learning

Exposing students to discrepant events and online simulations can spark wonder and motivate them to investigate science beyond the classroom.

It’s not easy to help students feel connected when everyone isn’t in the same room, but these science teachers found a way to make it work.

Interdisciplinary project-based learning encourages teacher collaboration, and a whole-school showcase is deeply engaging for students.

Asking students to examine their own possessions from the perspective of a historian in the future helps them sharpens their analytical skills.

The 3 Ds learning model is designed to facilitate deeper learning and increase student motivation.

Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.

By leaving space in their lessons for authentic curiosity to take hold, teachers can enable deeper learning.

Prominent scholars say that to drive deeper learning, students need to become accustomed to confusion—and develop the persistence to find their own answers.

With the simplest ingredients, teachers can show their students how the natural world around them works—and how to protect it.

Find information, strategies, protocols, and tools to promote curiosity and engage students in asking questions, thinking critically, and solving problems.

An inquiry-based curriculum requires both planning and flexibility, as well as a teacher knowing the students well enough to anticipate their interests and limits.

In planning project-based learning units, teachers can maximize students’ time together by focusing on collaboration and feedback.

A four-step approach to using a powerful model that increases student agency in learning.

John Larmer of the Buck Institute for Education clears up any confusion on the difference between project-based learning, problem-based learning, and whatever-else-based learning.