Hannah, I really connected to your post on Inquiry as it is something we have learned about in the Education program. When I was first learning about inquiry, I was very confused about what it entailed. I love that in your beginning paragraph you narrowed it down to students facilitating their learning with the teacher’s support. This single sentence would have helped me understand it better a couple of years ago.

I connected with your experience of there being a lack of inquiry in your education journey. There was specific content and we were to always report on this content, not from our own particular interests.

After reading your post, I realized that recess is a great inquiry opportunity for students. Students will often play with nature they find outside such as twigs and sticks and use their imagination to take part in play-based inquiry. It makes me wonder how we can incorporate play-based inquiry into the classroom as well so that we can maximize students’ indepdence.

Thanks for sharing Hannah!

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